12 Most Trending Zemanta Posts from 2012

This is our last post in the series of few looking back at 2012. Before the beginning of 2013, let's look at which Zemanta posts were the most popular this year. Some of them you may have missed or forgotten about. So, check them out.

1. 5 Reasons Why You Should Consider Blogging

If you think that blogging is a think of the past, you couldn’t be more wrong. In the most popular post of the year on Zemanta blog, Bostjan Spetic, Zemanta CEO, shares his 5 main reasons why you should at least consider blogging if you’re not already doing it.

2. World Wide Wasteland

Swizec looks at the future of blogosphere and comes to the conslucion that Link Love is forever; he makes the case for related posts. Do you agree?

3. 5 Blogs You Can’t Live Without

In June, I shared my own personal Top 5 blogs on blogging – the blogs I check out daily. They’re the blogs I believe every serious blogger should subscribe to. It was my own personal opinion. Maybe I should do it again next June and see if it’s still the same Top 5?

4. Your Startup Needs a Dashboard

Swizec was impressed by 4 screens at the Zemanta office in Ljubljana that show “everything imaginable about the state of the system”. And he got an idea: how to make a dashboard of all your metrics. It’s surprisingly simple.

5. I Bet You Over-engineered Your Startup

Swizec says, “Simplify your architecture!” He explains why you should do it and how to approach this issue.

6. Why Founders Shouldn’t Be The Developers

Swizec in his latest post that is still trending online says, “Programming doesn’t require a lot of attention, it requires all of attention.” See it for yourself. He will make you think hard about the argument he gives in the headline. Some agree, some disagree, but no one is left cold by this post.

7. 5 Steps You Need to Follow to Snap out of Your Perfectionist State and Be More Productive

Oh boy, I really like number 5, don’t I? This was a self-therapeutical post that obviously stroke a chord with many. Honestly, it really helped me. I’m not “saved” yet, but I am on my way to a full “recovery”.

8. The Uncanny Valley of Web Scraping

Swizec explains what web scraping is and where and how to find help with it.

9. 3 Rules for Updating Your Blog More Often

According to Bostjan, “we should stop obsessing about quality to the detriment of rarely making ourselves write”. He shares 3 rules to follow to update your blog regularly:

Don’t overthink
Don’t overcommit yourself
Guest blogging

10. So You Want to Offer a Public API…

Swizec gives advice how to properly offer an API.

11. 8 100-year-old Tips for Writing about Controversial Topics

Even two months after being posted, this guest post by Brad Shorr, Director of Content & Social Media at Straight North, is still one of the most read posts on this blog (based on daily stats). It’s about G.K. Chesterton, a leading journalist of the early 20th century. Via his quotes Brad shows how bloggers should approach controversial issues to promote debate rather than stifle it. Check it out!

12. RSS Will Never Die

According to Swizec, “this was supposed to be a post about translating a URL into a [good] RSS feed. After reading The War on RSS and some of the passionate debate it kicked off on HackerNews I decided to write something else. In short: RSS will never die.”