I sat down the other evening and had a look at my top 20 most viewed blog posts for 2014 – entries with an asterisk (*) beside them were published this year.
- When a fire hose crosses the railway track *
- Telling a racist where to go *
- What is the cheapest tollway account for Melbourne?
- Vision impaired and the green button *
- Dandenong line upgrade and probity concerns *
- Replacing the power jack of a Samsung NP305 laptop
- Melbourne Metro rail tunnel: how about some actual detail?
- Abandoned hospitals of Melbourne
- The company formerly known as National Mutual
- Melbourne’s abandoned skyscraper
- Comparing Melbourne’s two IMAX theatres
- ‘Jaywalking’ in the Melbourne CBD
- Melbourne’s freeway ‘ghost ramps’ *
- New speed cameras on the Monash Freeway
- Dodgy doors on Melbourne’s Comeng trains *
- The saga of Caroline Springs railway station
- Daylight savings time and your camera clock
- Melbourne’s abandoned airfield
- Still more shops at Southern Cross Station *
- Ardeer and the kink in the Western Ring Road *
My top post was one I published early in the year, digging into the story behind a viral image of a fire hose crossing railway tracks – the post seems to be getting a lot of traffic even today. Next up was my 15 minutes of fame when my story about confronting a racist guy on the tram ended up in the news.
Heading further down the list we find a number of railway themed entries, some older posts about abandoned buildings in Melbourne, and three old faithfuls – fixing the power jack of a Samsung laptop, the history of National Mutual, and a how-to for fixing digital camera timestamps after daylight savings time changes.
With only eight of my top 20 posts having been written this year, it goes to show the value that writing a “timeless” blog post can give.
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