The most popular posts for the 100,000 who visited here last month

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We served up nearly 240,000 page views here in March, 2010. What was most popular? Here's the list of the most popular posts, by page views, for last month, a year ago last month, and five years ago last month. Political geeks might be interested that five years ago, a blog post about a speech to the Liberal Party's national convention by a Harvard wonk named Michael Ignatieff was the number three most popular post that month. 

Here's the 20 most popular posts in March, 2010, followed by the date they were originally posted:

  1. Jaffer judge is a Tory (Tue 09 Mar 2010 04:40 PM EST)
  2. Vic Toews writes: Reporters advancing "Liberal spin" on Jaffer case (Wed 10 Mar 2010 11:15 AM EST)
  3. Ann Coulter, Young Conservatives, and MPs (Tue 23 Mar 2010 05:50 PM EDT)
  4. The attacks begin: Dissing the Liberal "thinkers' conference (Tue 23 Mar 2010 12:56 PM EDT)
  5. Do politics matter in the Jaffer case? You betcha … (Tue 09 Mar 2010 06:55 PM EST)
  6. Chretien, now the party elder, on new ideas and Conservatives (Fri 26 Mar 2010 11:43 AM EDT)
  7. The Cat in the Hat: Slightly Revised for the Times (Fri 19 Dec 2008 02:13 PM EST)
  8. Fowler: Liberals don't stand for much; will endorse any policy that gives them power (Sun 28 Mar 2010 12:00 PM EDT)
  9. The Hudak App goes live: Thoughts about mobile apps and politics (Sat 06 Mar 2010 10:09 AM EST)
  10. Fowler: On Harper's "reckless" Middle East posturing; and political pandering to ethnic voters (Sun 28 Mar 2010 12:55 PM EDT)
  11. PM takes Commons' speech straight to YouTube (Wed 10 Mar 2010 02:37 PM EST)
  12. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Hockey (Sun 07 Mar 2010 11:39 AM EST)
  13. F-35 – Test Flight (Wed 10 Jan 2007 03:07 PM EST)
  14. Chinooks and Globemasters: Boeing wins nearly $4 billion from Ottawa (Fri 11 Aug 2006 09:38 PM EDT)
  15. A bad day for the Liberals: "We look like fools" (Wed 24 Mar 2010 01:29 PM EDT)
  16. 24 Sussex Drive — Great for street hockey (Mon 19 Jun 2006 10:46 AM EDT)
  17. Love it or leave it? Federal Budget: The Day After (Fri 05 Mar 2010 12:37 PM EST)
  18. How to win votes and influence people: Harper versus Ignatieff (Fri 26 Mar 2010 04:54 PM EDT)
  19. How bad is U.S. unemployment? Really, really bad (Mon 15 Mar 2010 05:22 PM EDT)
  20. Liberal conference a prelude to a platform and, some hope, electoral success (Tue 23 Mar 2010 12:28 PM EDT)

Meanwhile, here's the most popular posts here a year ago, from March, 2009 (I've hyperlinked the top 5; feel free use search functions in left/right columns to find the rest):

  1. Harper and Obama: The Phone Call (Mon 30 Mar 2009 10:22 PM EDT)
  2. So tell me again: Why did we spend $3.4-billion on these things? (Fri 23 May 2008 10:08 AM EDT)
  3. Political Twits (Tue 31 Mar 2009 07:01 PM EDT)
  4. The Onion gets it right — eight years early (Mon 19 Jan 2009 10:30 PM EST)
  5. Good news: 5 cities to post economic growth; Bad news: 5 cities to post economic growth (Tue 31 Mar 2009 09:34 AM EDT)
  6. HST coming to Saskatchewan? B.C.? (Mon 30 Mar 2009 10:59 PM EDT)
  7. Parliamentary Computer Network crashes (Tue 31 Mar 2009 05:22 PM EDT)
  8. Conservatives give grant to conservative magazine (Fri 27 Mar 2009 10:51 PM EDT)
  9. The size of the inaugural crowd: A journalist's dilemma (Sun 18 Jan 2009 10:20 AM EST)
  10. Who's heard Tory attack ads on the radio? (Fri 16 Jan 2009 12:29 PM EST)
  11. Cool Xmas gifts: My USB turntable (Sat 27 Dec 2008 11:40 PM EST)
  12. The only leader to stand up to Harper … (Thu 29 Jan 2009 12:05 PM EST)
  13. Is a seniors program being used for a little pork barrel politics? (Fri 27 Mar 2009 10:20 PM EDT)
  14. Wheat Board politics: Ritz vs Goodale (Mon 09 Jun 2008 12:50 PM EDT)
  15. Himelfarb to be Iggy's Chief of Staff? (Wed 25 Mar 2009 01:46 PM EDT)
  16. Fun with iTunes or Bob Willis is NOT Lionel Richie (Wed 10 Sep 2008 11:04 PM EDT)
  17. Soft launch of David Akin's "Album Art Emporium" (Sat 28 Mar 2009 10:06 AM EDT)
  18. Daniel Leblanc and his day in court — for simply being a good reporter (Sat 21 Mar 2009 06:22 PM EDT)
  19. Inching back to Twitter (Wed 18 Feb 2009 11:15 PM EST)
  20. When it comes to press relations, do you like Obama or Harper? (Fri 20 Feb 2009 09:10 PM EST)

And, finally, the top 20 most popular posts five years ago, from March, 2006:

  1. Looking for John and Jackie Knill (Thu 30 Dec 2004 01:38 PM EST
  2. Air Canada and a new Celine Dion video — right here! (Mon 01 Nov 2004 10:33 PM EST
  3. Michael Ignatieff on liberalism and the Canadian Liberal Party (Fri 04 Mar 2005 09:34 AM EST
  4. Globe and Mail does RSS (Fri 11 Mar 2005 04:29 PM EST
  5. Bill Cameron: 1943-2005 (Sun 13 Mar 2005 07:11 AM EST
  6. Blog post gets Solberg in hot water (3-8-2005) 
  7. A tax break for hybrid car owners? (2-28-2005)
    A Porsche moment (1-10-2005)
  8. Wheels Up (2-21-2005)
  9. Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko  (2-25-2005  )
  10. Hard at work  (3-5-2005)
  11. Toronto — most expensive airport in North American to land your jet (Sun 21 Nov 2004 09:56 AM EST
  12. Grande Place – Brussels (Fri 25 Feb 2005 03:14 PM EST
  13. To debate or not debate (Wed 09 Mar 2005 02:11 PM EST
  14. CIBC is getting sued over fax fiasco (Fri 25 Feb 2005 07:23 AM EST
  15. Half-empty or half-full: An alternative view of the tech sector (Wed 02 Mar 2005 10:30 AM EST
  16. Young Liberals launch MuzzleGate.ca (Wed 16 Mar 2005 03:27 PM EST
  17. Mercedes' SmartCar (Thu 20 Jan 2005 01:03 PM EST
  18. A rush to become Canadian (Tue 08 Mar 2005 09:39 AM EST
  19. The Grande Place at Brussels (Mon 21 Feb 2005 07:17 AM EST)

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