2010 in review

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

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Crunchy numbers

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The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 74,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 3 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 134 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 921 posts. There were 90 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 13mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was February 12th with 459 views. The most popular post that day was Sri Lankan government to block internet and censor independent web media?.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were kottu.org, internationalpeaceandconflict.org, search.naver.com, twitter.com, and lirneasia.net.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for sri lankan porn, srilankan porn, radio logo, porn online, and sri lanka porn.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Sri Lankan government to block internet and censor independent web media? February 2010
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Banning Sri Lankan porn online: A couple of months after… January 2010
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3

United Nations on YouTube: Challenges of web video September 2008

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The future of mobile applications and some other ideas August 2008
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Mobitel 3.5G HSPA + Huawei E220 USB modem on Leopard – Download speeds and experience January 2008
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An Ashoka, Rotary World Peace and TED Fellow, I have since 2002 used, studied and advocated Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to strengthen peace, human rights & democratic governance. I founded in 2006 and till June 2020 edited the award-winning Groundviews, Sri Lanka's first civic media website. From 2002-2020 I was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives. I pioneered both the use of social media for activism and online citizen journalism/civic media in Sri Lanka, including setting up South Asia's first Twitter and Facebook accounts for civic media, in 2007. Having started digital security training for human rights activists in 2010, I continue to advise civil society on digital hygiene, mass and personal surveillance, privacy and secure communications to date. I also curate a comprehensive digital archive of material linked to peace and conflict in Sri Lanka, since 2002. I specialise in, advise and train on social media communications strategy, countering-violence extremism online, web-based activism, online advocacy and grounded, context-based, platform-specific social media research. My work experience over two-decades spans five continents. Through the ICT4Peace Foundation and since 2006, I help strengthen information management during crises and work on countering violent extremism online. For over a decade, this included leading the Foundation's work on these lines with the United Nations and other multi-lateral organisations involved in peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and humanitarian affairs. Since 2008, I have worked in South Asia, South East Asia, North Africa, Europe and the Balkans to capture, disseminate and archive inconvenient truths in austere, violent contexts. I completed doctoral studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, looking at the symbiotic relationship between offline unrest and online instigation of hate and harm in Sri Lanka and, in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre in 2019, facilitated by leading research based on New Zealand's first ever Data for Good grant by Twitter.

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