You know you’re too Web2.0 when;

1. You’re painting your home, and ask the hardware store for gradient paint
2. You wonder why the clouds in the sky don’t have tags
3. You call young families ’start ups’
4. You ask people their del.icio.us usernames instead of their real names at parties
5. You don’t call them parties, they’re called social mashups
6. You wonder why the microwave button doesn’t say SUBMIT
7. You start signing your name like fu.lln.ame
8. You paint your car lime green or light blue
9. You consider opening a bar called ‘Social Network’
10. You buy two goldfish and name them Yahoo! and Google
11. You write love letters in 24 point Tahoma
12. You have more usernames than friends
13. ’syndicate user-contributed web services’ starts to actually mean something
14. You play scrabble, and just add R’s to the ends of other players words
15. You tattoo your Flickr username on yourself
16. You wonder how you even survived back in Web1.0
17. You wonder why newspapers don’t have rounded corners
18. You catch yourself explaining ‘folksonomies’ to your grandparents
19. You find this list untrue and offensive
20. You can’t catch a train without making a Rails joke
21. You like your credit card for the fact it has rounded corners
22. You ask staff at your local clothing store if they have any t shirts in #C4F400
23. You look for the RSS button on your TV remote
24. You find this list funny

Image: ‘Pray for Australia’ sign, Maylands, WA.

I like to always keep an eye on my blog statistics to see what people are linking to, which posts are getting comments, and what posts get read the most. This helps me better understand what people like or dislike in topics that I cover.

I have always known that some subjects get twice as many readers as other topics, and some posts rarely even rate a blip in the top 20. Not that readers are the only reasons I write, but it is nice to know your subscribers are interested.

So, here’s the results of my research, here’s the top 5 most viewed posts on my blog from each month, from January until now.

June 2006
1. The Web2.0 Secret Weapon (Feb 3rd 2006)
2. 18 ways to be a better employee (June 14th 2006)
3. Design Thieves Part II (June 5th 2006)
4. Australia’s 50 biggest public companies (March 22nd 2006)
5. Design Thieves (March 5th 2006)

May 2006
1. The Web2.0 Secret Weapon (Feb 3rd 2006)
2. If Web2.0 applied to cars (March 29th 2006)
3. Lets use english in HTML (March 23rd 2006)
4. Make Money Blogging (April 19th 2006)
5. Australia’s 50 biggest public companies (March 22nd 2006)

April 2006
1. The Web2.0 Secret Weapon (Feb 3rd 2006)
2. If Web2.0 applied to cars (March 29th 2006)
3. Lets use english in HTML (March 23rd 2006)
4. Australia’s 50 biggest public companies (March 22nd 2006)
5. 39 hints when looking for web industry work (March 3rd 2006)

March 2006
1. The Web2.0 Secret Weapon (Feb 3rd 2006)
2. Lets use english in HTML (March 23rd 2006)
3. 39 hints when looking for web industry work (March 3rd 2006)
4. Job applicants take note (Jan 16th 2006)
5. A collaborative industry is possible (Feb 10th 2006)

February 2006
1. The Web2.0 Secret Weapon (Feb 3rd 2006)
2. A collaborative industry is possible (Feb 10th 2006)
3. Job applicants take note (Jan 16th 2006)
4. crazydomains (Feb 15th 2006)
5. Australia Day 2006 (Jan 27th 2006)

January 2006
1. Canberra – Facts & Fiction (Dec 8th 2005)
2. Job applicants take note (Jan 16th 2006)
3. Well explained forms (Dec 16th 2006)
4. Back to Busselton (Dec 26th 2005)
5. Placing value on your blog (Dec 22nd 2005)

I hope you find these as interesting as I did, and a chance to read some old posts of mine too! There’s some interesting trends in the last six months – my poke the fun at Web2.0posts appear to be the most popular, followed by the fact that many posts take a month to even appear in the top 5 at all.

That last rated post for January is very pertinent too – Placing value on your blog discusses what to watch when determining your blogs worth. Has much changed in the six months since?

Image: London Bridge, London.