I do so enjoy self-reflection. I’d promise this is my last reflective look of 2009 but I’m afraid I’d make a liar out of myself.

Off to the right of this blog you’ll see the Top 10 posts according to the WordPress Popularity Contest widget as well as the Top 10 posts according to PostRank. PostRank puts a premium on recent activity while Popularity Contest puts a premium on overall activity which is why you see the discrepancy between the two.  Here are my top 10 posts of 2009 based solely on Traffic:

1. This is Why Google Scares the Sh*t Out of Companies
2. There is NOT too much information
3. My GTD Moleskine Hacks
4. Forget, Unfriend. The new put down is the Un-Retweet.
5. Posterous Overtakes FriendFeed, Set to Overtake Delicious.
6. Leaving HP. Back to Agency Life.
7. On Being an Influencer and Marketing as Media
8. Wikipedia is the best thing ever!
9. You Do Not Have to be Social Media Famous.
10. Top 5 Predictions for the Next 5 Years in Business Social Media

[UPDATE] Melanie over at PostRank sent this for me as well. Thanks.

While you’re waiting with bated breath for the Top Blogs, to equalize out the post rankings between WordPress and PostRank a bit, I took a quick look at your analytics in our system and pulled up your top posts for the year according to PostRank. (The widget only looks at the last 50 posts, so this is for the whole year, based on total engagement points per post, which I’ve noted in brackets at the end of each title.)

• Posterous Overtakes FriendFeed, Set to Overtake Delicious. - Nov. 4 (643)
• Leaving HP. Back to Agency Life. - Apr. 20 (641)
• You are Crazy not to Measure the ROI of Social Media! - Aug. 27 (435)
• This is Why Google Scares the Sh*t Out of Companies - Oct. 29 (411)
• On Being an Influencer and Marketing as Media - Sept. 25 (324)
• You Do Not Have to be Social Media Famous. - Aug. 10 (284)
• Brizzly is Funny. Obviously Wants to Be More than a Twitter Client. - Oct. 3 (270)
• Top 5 Predictions for the Next 5 Years in Business Social Media - Dec. 21 (262)
• Twitter for News and Facebook for Tech? - Oct. 17 (259)

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