This is Public Occurrences.

There has not been a "full" T.i.P.O. in a while, just itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie ones here and there. Let's do one. Okay. At noon today (not at 1, not at 2, not between 10 and 4) there were 35 pageviewers here. You can see how out of proportion that was to the other hourly numbers today, first graph, and this week, second graph.

Is this the famous "Song Binbin Effect?"  An itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie one?  Channeling our inner Nate Silver we can say...need more data. Channeling our inner economist ("On the one hand, on the other hand") we can say that today the top "search keyword" is "song binbin red guard."  On the other hand, Songie checks in at #1 with only six...usages or whatever you do with search keywords in Google-ese. On the one hand, Hong Kong (Hong Kongers?  Hong Kongese?) is second today in "pageviews by country" (sic). And, three separate "On Song Binbin" posts are in the top ten today. But, "Mermaids" trounces all other posts today with 21, to 15 for the three Song posts combined. On the other..., "mermaids" as a search keyword, and a separate entry "русалка" (mermaid in Bulgarian) total only four. ?  So, yeah.

The top ten most read posts since July 2008 are at sidebar. These are the up-to-the minute "raw" numbers for each:

1. LBJ I, 16,428.
2. Mermaids, 6994.
3. Citizenship, 3808.
4. Anthropology I, 3446.
5. Women, 2552.
6. Cultural Revolution, 2410.
7. Anthropology II, 2025.
8. Kiribati, 1982.
9. LBJ II, 1848.
10. Jasmine Revolution, 1066. (That was an important year, at least.)

Total "pageviews" since July 2008: 128,509.

Top ten countries:

1. U.S.(48.8% of total pageviews).
2. U.K.
3. Russia.
4. China.
5. Canada.
6. Germany
7. France.
8. Australia.
9. Philippines.
10. Ukraine.

T.T. search keywords:

1. lebron james.
2. mermaids.
3. kiribati.
4. public occurrences.
5. wang guangmei.
6. lebron.
7. song binbin.
8. lebron james powder toss.
9. lisa randall vogue (Unbelievable).
10. jasmine revolution.