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What You Read on Your Summer Vacation
As publishers, it is imperative we always stay attuned to the kind of editorial material our audience finds most professionally valuable and engaging. Indeed, we devour Web analytics about Communications' site to better serve our current audience and to draw more into the fold. And we intend to share that information with you on a regular basis. Here, we present the most popular articles and sections this past summer (starting with the Memorial Day weekend, May 22) as indicated by our latest site statistics.
Top Articles
FYI: Only full-text articles are ranked, though some abstracts got more pageviews.
- The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7/32091 - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28497 - Whither Sockets?
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28495 - CS Education in the U.S.: Heading in the Wrong Direction?
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7/32090 - API Design Matters
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/5/24646 - Award-Winning Paper Reveals Key to Netflix Prize
cacm.acm.org/news/32450 - Time for Computer Science to Grow Up
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/8/34492 - How Computer Science Serves the Developing World
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28498 - Why 'Open Source' Misses the Point of Free Software
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28491 - Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/5/24632
Top Blog Posts
FYI: Michael Stonebraker's #1 entry had more than 10 times the traffic of his #5 entry.
- The End of a DBMS Era (Might Be Upon Us)
cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/32212 - The Siren Song of Startups
cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/29807 - The Biggest Gains Come From Knowing Your Data
cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/33805 - What Is a Good Recommendation Algorithm?
cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/22925 - DB MSs for Science Applications: A Possible Solution
cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/22489
Top Sections:
FYI: The homepage got more pageviews than all of these sections combined.
- Magazine Archive: cacm.acm.org/magazines
- BLOG@CACM: cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm
- News: cacm.acm.org/news
- Blogs: cacm.acm.org/blogs
- Author Guidelines: cacm.acm.org/about-communications/author-center
Top Issues:
FYI: The site's momentum is evident.
- June 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6
- July 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7
- May 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/5
- April 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/4
- March 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/3
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