The Top Ten Most Viewed Wooden Finger Posts (and The Best Of Everything) of 2012

And to finish the year off, these were the ten most viewed posts on this blog that were written this year:

1.       Album Cover Review – Lana Del Rey: Born To Die

2.       Album Review – Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

3.       Quick … Name The Five Sports In Modern Pentathlon

4.       Mid-Year AFL All-Australian Team 2012

5.       Is Andrew Bogut A Bust?

6.       Rejigging the Olympics Medal Tally

7.       How To Rate Every One Day Batsman Ever, or Why Viv Richards is Probably The Best

8.       ‘Uncanny Avengers’ #1 and ‘Saga’

9.       The Finger Points Outwards No. 42 – Does Distracting Free Throw Shooters Work?

10.   Jimmy McNulty And The Economics Of The Baltimore Serial Killer

The first two posts were thousands of views ahead of the rest, and each racked up more views than the rest of the top ten combined. They probably did so for the same reason: they are high on the list when one does an image search in Google for the covers of those albums. Google searches tend to be the highest determinant of traffic for this blog, irrespective of content.

Now, some personal favourites for 2012:

Best Book: On Warne – Gideon Haigh
Best Album: Lonerism – Tame Impala
Best Song: Pyramids – Frank Ocean

Best TV Show: Mad Men
Best Film: The Dark Knight Rises
Best Comic: Saga – Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Best Sporting Event: Hawthorn v Sydney AFL Grand Final (though I got more satisfaction from the Melbourne Storm’s NRL Grand Final win)
Best Sportsperson: Usain Bolt
Best Website: The Basketball Jones
Best Post: The Flight Of The Pixie Point Guards – Andrew Rafner on The Basketball Jones
Best Beer:  Mountain Goat Rare Breed Before The Dawn Black IPA
Best Twitter Feed: Tim Siedell (@badbanana)

Prospero Ano Nuevo!

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