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# Top posts
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/top-posts/
- Published: 2005-12-27T21:43:28.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:59:16.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Misc

I don’t normally pay too close attention to the detail of my blog logs, concentrating on general trends. However, given that it is a time of year for retrospection, I have just spent a little time looking at actual December traffic and was interested to see the following list of posts, most read first. I have italicized posts actually made in December itself.

1. [Discover, locate, … vertical and horizontal integration](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000865.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
2. [The user interface that isn’t](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000667.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
3. [A handful of presentations](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000876.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
4. [The integrated library system that isn’t](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000585.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
5. [Metasearch: a boundary case](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000768.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
6. [*Service models*](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000880.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
7. [Stitching services into user environments – intrastructure](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000505.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
8. [Metasearch, google and the rest](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000615.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
9. [In the flow](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000688.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
10. [Circulating intentional data](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000875.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
11. [*On demand book search*](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000890.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
12. [Just how simple?](/lorcand/lorcan//archives/000654.html)
13. [*Flickr value*](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000877.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
14. [All that is solid melts into flows ….](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000663.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
15. [Library logistics (again)](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000746.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
16. [Making data work harder](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000535.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
17. [*Cool search*](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000885.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
18. [The network and the library](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000716.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
19. [Recombinance all the way up … remixing all the way down](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000657.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

Not quite sure what to make of this ….  
One thing to note is the persistent traffic on some longer posts, presumably as they are linked/noted in various places, which is nice to see.  
It does make me wonder about entry titles. Maybe more descriptive titles are in order in some cases? Or maybe I should be picking titles that refer more explicitly to “topics du jour”. (I was interested to read recently the comments of [Nicholas Carr](https://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/12/memeorandums%5Fcl.php?ref=lorcandempsey.net) and [Paul Kedrosky](https://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/002236.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) on the influence of potential memeorandum inclusion on blogger topic choice.) Would [Systems in the network world](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000622.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) have made the list if it had been called [Web 2.0: systems in the network world](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000622.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net). Mind you, it appeared before *Web 2.0* took off as a label. Should I go back and change a few titles 😉  
Given what is on the list, I also wonder at some posts that did not make it. [New model library system vendors](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000786.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net), for example, or [From metasearch to distributed information environments](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000827.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net), or [Services for intermediate consumers](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000629.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net), each of which I like as much or better than some that do make it to the list.  
Well, back to other things ….