Best Mondays
First Monday has published 860 papers in 137 issues (plus eight special issues), written by 1,040 different authors, since May 1996. Every month, a new issue appears and the previous issue and its contents becomes part of the First Monday archives. Many of these archived articles are continually accessed by our readers and deserve recognition for their timelessness and utility. To commemorate its sixth anniversary, First Monday established a new feature called Best Mondays, highlighting the most frequently accessed articles. This record is based on statistics in First Monday’s logs. The concept for Best Mondays originates with Student Editors, Cheryl Anderson, Scott Lucas, and Lucia Testin, at the time graduate students in the School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.
Most read papers in August, 2007
The effects of September 11 on the leading search engine
by Richard Wiggins, published in the October 2001 issueOnline grocery shopping: Consumer motives, concerns, and business models
by Mike Kempiak and Mark A. Fox, published in the September 2002 issueFriends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites
by danah boyd, published in the December 2006 issueEthical and economic issues surrounding freely available images found on the Web
by Eric Lease Morgan, published in the July 2006 issueInheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books
by Paul Duguid, published in the August 2007 issueBeyond Google: How do students conduct academic research?
by Alison J. Head, published in the August 2007 issueInfomania: Why we can’t afford to ignore it any longer
by Nathan Zeldes, David Sward, and Sigal Louchheim, published in the August 2007 issuePuppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis
by Tom Cross, published in the September 2006 issueA social network caught in the Web
by Lada A. Adamic, Orkut Buyukkokten, and Eytan Adar, published in the June 2003 issueAl Gore and the creation of the Internet
by Richard Wiggins, published in the October 2000 issue
Most read papers in 2006
Al Gore and the creation of the Internet
by Richard Wiggins, published in the October 2000 issueThe Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World
by Clifford Lynch, published in the June 2001 issueContent is not king
by Andrew Odlyzko, published in the February 2001 issueThe effects of September 11 on the leading search engine
by Richard Wiggins, published in the October 2001 issueThe cathedral and the bazaar
by Eric S. Raymond, published in the March 1998 issueThe Lives and Death of Moore’s Law
by Ilkka Tuomi, published in the November 2002 issuePiercing the peer–to–peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience
by Michael Geist, published in the April 2005 issueThe Attention Economy and the Net
by Michael H. Goldhaber, published in the April 1997 issueTechnology and Pleasure: Considering Hacking Constructive
by Gisle Hannemyr, published in the February 1999 issueDigital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
by David F. Noble, published in the January 1998 issue
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