{"id":564,"date":"2011-09-08T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/?p=564"},"modified":"2011-09-08T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T03:05:25","slug":"my-7-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2011\/09\/08\/my-7-links\/","title":{"rendered":"My 7 Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.desiblonde.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meliha<\/a> invited me to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tripbase.com\/blog\/my-7-links-the-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tripbase My 7 Links Project<\/a> which asks me to identify:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My most beautiful post<\/li>\n<li>My most popular post<\/li>\n<li>My most controversial post<\/li>\n<li>My most helpful post<\/li>\n<li>A post whose success surprised me<\/li>\n<li>A post I feel didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get the attention it deserved<\/li>\n<li>The post that I am most proud of<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tripbase.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tripbase<\/a> is focused on travel, I won&#8217;t necessarily restrict my selections to travel related posts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My most beautiful post<\/strong><br \/>\nI think that would have to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2010\/06\/23\/final-launch-of-space-shuttle-atlantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Final Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis\">Final Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/a> (well as it turned out, the penultimate launch). Not only are the photos beautiful, but the opportunity to experience a launch of a space shuttle has sadly gone the way of the Dodo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My most popular post<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to Google Analytics it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2011\/04\/21\/predicting-when-derek-jeters-3000th-career-hit-will-occur\/\" title=\"Predicting When Derek Jeter's 3000th Hit Will Occur\" target=\"_blank\">Predicting When Derek Jeter&#8217;s 3000th Hit Will Occur<\/a>. I was completely wrong, mainly due to Jeter going on the disabled list and missing 20 or so games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My most controversial post<\/strong><br \/>\nDefinitely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2011\/02\/14\/ibm-watson-vs-google-search\/\" title=\"IBM Watson Vs. Google Search\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Watson Vs. Google Search<\/a>. In addition to the comments on my blog, &#8220;kenjackson&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2227042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">slighted me on Hacker News<\/a>. What cracks me up the most is how people who don&#8217;t work at Google think they authoritatively know how Google works and what it does and doesn&#8217;t do with regard to A.I. and natural language processing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My most helpful post<\/strong><br \/>\nMost likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2010\/08\/11\/gpx-elevation-profile-plotting-with-the-google-chart-api\/\" title=\"GPX Elevation Profile Plotting With The Google Chart API\" target=\"_blank\">GPX Elevation Profile Plotting With The Google Chart API<\/a>. Based on the traffic and when my page shows up in search results I think most people find the GPX parsing\/elevation calculation code useful as when I wrote it there weren&#8217;t many examples that just worked e.g. people would describe calculations or enumerate the mathematical formulas, but didn&#8217;t commit them to code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A post whose success surprised me<\/strong><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t really know if any of my posts can be considered a &#8220;success&#8221; but maybe my research into some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2010\/12\/19\/art-history\/\" title=\"Art History\" target=\"_blank\">Art History<\/a> after a visit to the mus\u00c3\u00a9e du Louvre fits the bill. <\/p>\n<p><strong>A post I feel didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get the attention it deserved<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter re-reading my waxing philosophical post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2009\/09\/30\/giants\/\" title=\"Redwood Trees\" target=\"_blank\">Redwood Trees<\/a> surprised me. According to Google Analytics not many people have read this post, but I think it&#8217;s probably one of my best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The post that I am most proud of<\/strong><br \/>\nIdea-wise, the previous post may be the one I&#8217;m most proud of; however, in terms of travel and personal achievements I&#8217;d have to say my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2011\/01\/31\/great-expectations\/\" title=\"Great Expectations\" target=\"_blank\">Great Expectations<\/a> post takes the cake as I wove together 3 mentally and physically challenging endeavors and question why I do the things I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Meliha invited me to take part in the Tripbase My 7 Links Project which asks me to identify: My most beautiful post My most popular post My most controversial post My most helpful post A post whose success surprised me A post I feel didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get the attention it deserved The post that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}