This is Public Occurrences.

                                                          

Google has deigned to give us a Top Ten posts. Ahh Google, you’re so fluffy I could die.

February was Arab Spring in Our World. And at Publocc.  If one had put “Egypt” in the toolbar search window on January 29, the most recent post would have been prior to 2006, I think.

But not after January 30.

That day’s post, “Protests in Egypt,” went the closest thing to “viral” that a post on a pipsqueak website like this can. It is now #3 in the post-July 2010 Top Ten and, at the time of this writing had had 801 “pageviews.”  Ohh, excuse me, Ariana Huffington, you get 801 pageviews per nanosecond. By next month it will probably have overtaken “Lebron James.”  “The Jasmine Revolution,” February 13, also cracked the T.T., and sits at numero five-o with 264 pageviews.  "Anthropology I" is still far-and-away number one. All-all-time, "China's Great Wall of Silence, The Murder of Bian Zhongyun, Current Photos of Song Binbin" (catchy title) appears to be the most read.

Fifty-nine countries were represented among pageviewers since Feb. 13. These little blogs do get around. Among exotic locales were Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Jordan, Khazakstan (Borat!), Uzbekistan, Malta, and Vietnam.

Egypt was seventh this month in countries of readers, India fifth. En passant, as we French say, sincere congratulations to the Egyptian people for holding a referendum on their constitution yesterday. Maybe they will pull this off (but I doubt it). A presidential election is scheduled in August and we'll see then.  The Top Ten countries since July, 2010 is (from memory) unchanged with the exception of Hong Kong, which is tenth. China is still seventh. Google separately categorizes readers from Hong Kong. Why, I don’t know.

Among exotic posts...viewed this month were, “Yves Klein Blue,” March 5, 2005,  “Michael Chow’s House,” a few of the “Murder Case Photos” series, and “Borat” (Khazakstan!).

Photo: a Benjamin Harris.