There are 10 blogging days until New Year’s, so as part of our year-end, look-back observances, we will count down the year’s most popular blog posts (by pageviews) here at Cranach. The reason some posts get far more views than others is that they get picked up by Reddit or the equivalent, get linked to at numerous other blogs and websites, are topics lots of people search for, and I’m not sure why else. (I suspect some teachers are assigning posts, giving me a captive audience.) It’s interesting that large numbers of page views do not always translate into large numbers of comments.