Posts readers and I thought were worth reading and linking to.

I’ve noticed in the past that many “pro” bloggers often summarize their best posts for the week or month in a sort of “This week/month in review” post. It’s not a bad idea because it can help new or irregular readers find interesting content that they may have missed.

So this month, I’ll be starting a monthly Top 10 post. The posts you find here are the ones that were the most popular with readers or, in some instances, ones that I thought were unusually content-rich.

1. Can YOUR Mouse Last 18 Years? This will probably go down in this blog’s history as the most popular post of all time. With 46,000+ hits (last time I looked) since it was posted on August 1, it got so many Diggs that it nearly got me kicked off my ISP’s server. If you haven’t read it yet, you may enjoy it. It’s the true and short story of my friend Jo’s 18-year-old computer. And over a month later, this remains the most popular post on my site, getting the most hits — mostly from StumbleUpon references, ever day.
2. I Don’t Like Being Seriously Dugg. Do you want to know how getting over 1,000 Diggs in a short period of time can send traffic to your site in outrageous numbers? And what the consequences could be? Here’s my take on the fallout from the mouse article.
3. Copyright for Writers and Bloggers — Part I: Why Copyright is Important. This was the first article in a three part series I wrote in August about copyright. The whole series approaches copyright from the point of view of the content creator — folks like me who create fresh new content. Although I’ve only linked here to the first article in the series, I urge you to read all three; the links for each are in a box in the first piece. I’m thinking that I need a follow-up piece about content users (and abusers) but that’ll have to wait until October, when things settle down a bit.
4. Leopard Features Poll. This quick poll is my attempt to get Mac OS X users to tell us what they’re looking forward to most in the upcoming release of Mac OS X. If you’re a Mac user, please take a moment to share your opinion. I’m actually pretty surprised by the results so far.
5. Ten Dashboard Widgets I can’t Live Without. In this post, I share a list of my favorite Dashboard widgets. Be sure to read the comments, where other readers have mentioned the widgets they use most — and one of them offered up a tip for getting word definitions that I have been using daily since reading it.
6. Choosing Your Mac OS Startup Disk on the Fly.Although this quick post didn’t get many views, I think it’s a good trick for anyone using Mac OS X with Boot Camp to know.
7. Declaring RSS Feed Bankruptcy. In this article, I explain why I deleted over 1,000 unread posts from my feedreader application. And why I still don’t miss them.
8. Networking — Part I: Doing it the Old Fashioned Way. This is the first part of a two-part article about networking. No, not the kind with wires or data floating wirelessly through the ether. It’s networking as a tool to make professional contacts, generate business, and better serve your existing customers. If you read this, don’t miss Part II, which discusses LinkedIn.
9. The High Cost of Writing Tech Books. This piece explains some of the hidden costs of writing computer how-to books. It also guides you down memory lane with me as I list some of the hardware I’ve purchased over the past 18 years.
10. Goofing Off on a Summer Sunday. This post is mainly of interest to the folks who come here to read about flying helicopters. It’s an account of a heli outing I took with some friends one Sunday in August.

Are these the only good posts for this month. I don’t think so. But I limited myself to ten and these were the ten I came up with. I’d love to get your comments on the ones you read. Use the Comments link or form for the post to share your opinions and any additional information you think is relevant.

[composed on top of a mesa in the middle of nowhere with ecto]