--- title: "Top 24 of 2004" date: 2004-12-07 author: "Richard MacManus" categories: - name: "ReadWriteWeb" url: "/category/readwriteweb.md" tags: - name: "2004" url: "/tag/2004.md" --- # Top 24 of 2004 There’s a nice meme just started, asking people to list their [Top 24 posts of 2004](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://apennyfor.com/top24/) ([via](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.ensight.org/archives/2004/12/06/top-24-posts-of-2004/)). I decided to check out my web stats and dig out the most-visited posts of 2004 for Read/Write Web. They may not necessarily be “the best” posts in terms of quality, but the people have spoken and the following posts were the most popular. Actually a lot of my favourites did make it to the list, which is great. A few odd ones too, that I wouldn’t have picked. Here is my top of the pops for 2004: 1\. [Interview with Marc Canter](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001818.php) 2. [The Fractal Blogosphere](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001790.php) 3. [There is no End User](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001812.php) 4. [Weblogs as Avatars: some thoughts](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001902.php) 5. [Knowledge Management for Generation Y](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001990.php) 6. [Analysing Bloglines Subscriber Stats](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002039.php) 7. [Internal Corporate Blogging](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001794.php) 8. [A Theory of Synchronicity for the Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001937.php) 9. [Information Flow](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001806.php) 10. [A New Kind of Literacy](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002083.php) 11. [Fractal Web applied to Blogging](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001789.php) 12. [Reaching for the Golden Ring (or Getting Paid)](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001862.php) 13. [Multimedia Blogging](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002098.php) 14. [Mama don’t let your baby grow up to be a Generalist](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001978.php) 15. [We’re all on the same page](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002040.php) 16. [Stasis and Synchronicity](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001928.php) 17. [Reliance](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002086.php) 18. [Notes on Tim O’Reilly’s Oscon 2004 speech](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002081.php) 19. [Quick thoughts on Kottke’s Re-Design](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001996.php) 20. [Knowledge Management in the Real World](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001946.php) NB: I interrupt the list there, because turns out there’s nothing after early August – not even the Slashdotted [Lucas Gonze interview](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002378.php) in October. That surprises me, but I guess it goes to show how much extra traffic Google brings for a blog post in the months following its publication. So to make up for the lack of recent stuff, to finish my Top 24 list here are 4 of my favourite posts from September-November 2004: \* [Why Yahoo! + RSS = Good Thing](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002291.php) \* [Content Renaissance On The Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002335.php) \* [Tim O’Reilly Interview](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002454.php) \* [Branding Microcontent](https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190510/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002477.php) There you have it, those are my most popular posts of 2004! I’d love to read other peoples lists. It’s a good way to get to know a blogger’s interests and themes. Plus, for the writer, it’s a handy way to build up a recommendation list for new readers. *Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002525.php))*