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2008 In Review: Our Most Popular Articles, and Looking Ahead to 2009
2008 was a great year for Highly Obsessed. We welcomed a new writer (hi, Josh!), got our new design up and running (okay, so maybe that was late 2007) and saw a surge in traffic, comments and inbound queries that we were happy to accommodate. As usual, we’re grateful to you, our readers, who keep coming back to read, provide feedback, and engage in interesting conversations with one another.
As 2009 gets underway, I thought I would take a moment to look back and highlight the most popular posts of 2008, just in case you missed them.
- ACL Recovery: One Year Out, and My Final Post on the Topic: I am amazed at the legs this article has. Some of you may remember I posted quite frequently about my ACL injury, surgery and subsequent recovery; this post provides a bit of a timeline for my recovery, a year after the surgery. I believe there are north of 50 comments on this article now, as new folks keep rolling in to post questions about what to expect during the recovery process, tips on knee braces, and more.
- Pemberton (Music) Festival: Some Tips and Hints to a Good Weekend: Having been to Pemberton many times, I posted a few thoughts on how to best enjoy the crazy music festival help up there this summer.
- Sure Your Board Is Good, But is it ‘Good Wood’ Good?: Josh takes a look at Transworld’s top snowboards for 2009.
- Ride-along with Steve: Reviewing the Fuji SL1: On the cycling side, Steve weighs in with an article on the Fuji SL1, a high-end (and apparently popular, given the traffic to this article) road bike.
- Snowboard Biding Buyer’s Guide: Josh puts together another killer article on buying the right snowboard bindings for you.
So what about 2009? We plan to introduce a couple of new advertisers, some promotions/contests, and are trying to increase the amount of content we produce to make sure there’s an interesting reason to read us daily. We hope you come along for the ride!
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Can I take part in the contests?!
Does “more articles” mean I have to do more work? This might be a problem because I am notoriously lazy. And you don’t pay me enough
shut up and keep working! where’s that damn under the influence article.
haha DONE!
When did you become so prolific? Did you get fired or something?
Josh is great! I’ve enjoyed his articles very much this year
Can I make a suggestion though? It’s REALLY hard to tell your links from the text, at least on my monitor
Great year so far you guys! Happy New Year to both of ya
I agree with Allie regarding the links. I would fix it, but I don’t know how. Adam, you do it.