Last year we celebrated the first birthday of this blog by sharing some statistics provided by our open source blogging software WordPress in form of the all-too popular end-of-the-year-listings – a tradition, which we continue after our second year of blogging:

Top 5 blog posts 2010 (in terms of visitors):

  1. Transnational Studies and Governance # 3: Studies on ‘global’ markets in history
  2. Fair Value Accounting in Retreat?*
  3. Regulating Over the Counter Derivatives: Is Global Agreement Possible?
  4. Extending Private Copying Levies: Approaching a Cultural Flat-rate?
  5. Eastern Frontiers: The Good, the Bad and the Church

* also #3 in the Top 5 of 2009

Top 5 search terms guiding visitors to our blog in 2010:

  1. Transnational governance (#3 in 2009)
  2. post-socialism
  3. Kindle controversy (#1 in 2009)
  4. Milford Bateman microfinance
  5. fair value accounting (#2 in 2009)

Top 5 tags attached to blog posts in 2010:

  1. Microfinance / Microcredit (12 out of 22 in 2010)
  2. Creative Commons (6/15)
  3. Development (5/12)
  4. Piracy (4/6)
    Financial Crisis (4/9)
    Transnational governance (4/10)
    Copyright     / Copyright Regime (4/14)

Top 5 series in 2010:

  1. Andrah Pradesh Microfinance Crisis (8 out of 8 posts in 2010)
  2. The Bateman Controversy (4/4)
  3. The Series Series (3/4)
  4. Bordercrossing Books (2/2)
    Wise Cartoons     (2/2)

While in total we published 53 posts in 2010 – down 11 compared to 64 posts in 2009 – we have received a total of 113 comments, doubling our comment-per-article ratio from 1 to 2. We again met our self-imposed goal of publishing on average at least one post per week – it was, however, closer this year. Our New Year’s resolution for 2011: beat the 2009 level of posts but keep the comment-per-article ratio at 2.