Doing a quick check of Google Analytics and other metrics of my blog for 2013, I find that the blog post that got the most traffic last year was one that I wrote back in 2009 about using GraphViz. The second most popular was also a blog post from 2009, which was about Matlab and Excel. Coming in third was a post from 2010 about adding Google Document forms to Tumblr. This was followed by another 2010 blog post about recovering a bricked Nokia N900 and rounding out the top five posts was a 2009 blog post about performing an SQL style “group ny” in Matlab. So, the top five blog posts were old technical how to blog posts.

According to Google Analytics, the next most popular post was about when the Thule Weekender met its end. This was a 2013 blog post. However, when I look at the data from my server, this blog post doesn’t show up as significant.

My server shows the my most popular blog post of 2013 being one of my random collections of topics. It is hard to tell what aspect of the post brought the traffic, but I’m guessing it was talking about Ingress.

The second most popular post was about opening the Supreme Court to the highest bidder and the third returned to technology themes as I talked about both Google Glass and Ingress. This was followed by a blog post mixing technology, politics with a little bit of poetry as I adapted the beginning of Howl to events in 2013. The final of the top five from this list was a blog post about health care discussions online.

Technology and politics continue to be what brings people to this blog. My most popular blog posts are from a few years ago. Should I write more to the technology and politics audience? Should I further my explorations in other topics? How much does one write for oneself and how much does one write for others?

It will be interesting to see what 2014 brings.