Most popular articles of 2005

Hope you’ve had a good holiday. I’ve been enjoying my family, pretending to watch football and more or less catching my breath after a busy year. As I was thinking about the past year, I wondered which of the articles on my blog were the most popular. So here are the Top 10 articles from 2005:

1. 275 Hours of MP3s tops the list, along with Part Deux and The Rest of the list. These three posts cataloged my MP3 collection, and generated a lot of traffic (not surprisingly) via Google search.
2. Google Takes Over Earth — an article about Google Earth — grabbed the number two slot. I love maps and can easily spend hours playing with this fabulous tool.
3. Converting a Sony DV Camera to a Webcam was also popular. DV cameras have become common, and the image quality is much better than any webcam. This article outlined my tests using a Sony DV camera as a webcam. And yes, it works great!
4. Windows Live Messenger Beta Debuts is still a hot topic, bringing in over 170 comments since December 14th. It seems like everyone and their brother wants to get their hands on an invitation to beta test WLM.
5. Flickr Screensaver described a neat little screensaver program that works great if you’re always online.
6. Sony DV and Webcam DV Revisited takes a second look at the Webcam DV software that enabled me to use my Sony DV camera hooked to my computer through a Firewire connection.
7. Collaborative Art describes an interesting project I participated in with the Squared Circle group on Flickr. I’ve got posters of the results waiting to be framed.
8. Friday Random Ten- The Day the Music Died Edition was a simple meme. Fire up your media player. Set it to “random play.” List the first 10 songs that show up.
9. Do you know the way to San Jose surprised me when it showed up in the top 10. This was a post from way back in 2003!
10. Open Your Mind was another blast from the past. This entry from 2004 warns against dogma.

Looking over these posts you catch a glimpse at what matters to me. Stuff that catches my attention. Tools that are worth sharing. I hope you’ll follow along in 2006, sharing your views and ideas as well.