Top 10 Translation Topics So Far in 2009

In case you missed one of them, here are the top 10 most popular posts on the T&I Business Blog so far in 2009:

1. Large Translation Companies Overlooked for CSA's Top 30
   (Followed later by More Translation Companies Overlooked for CSA's Top 30)
2. Bad Translation Turns Racing Product Racist then Racy
3. Myths Debunked: Bad Translation Apocrypha
   (Still popular even though this was posted in 2008)
4. Updated List of Salary & Compensation Surveys for the Translation Industry
   (This was a follow-up to Salary & Compensation Surveys for the Translation Industry)
5. Top 5 LinkedIn Groups for Translation, Localization, and Interpretation
6. Growing Translation Companies on Inc. 5000 in 2009
7. Financial Data for Public Translation Companies
8. Financial Data for Private Translation Companies
9. Translation World Records
10. How large is the translation industry? Well, how do you define it?
    (This was actually the very first post on the T&I Business Blog in December 2005, but it was updated slightly and reposted at a later date in 2008.)

Which posts do you enjoy reading the most? I notice that the most popular posts tend include one or more of the following elements:

• 8/10 contain lists
• 7/10 contain financial information
• 3/10 contain some kind of "gotcha" (the top 3)
• 2/10 contain humor (2 of the top 3)

In sum, these are all focused on 3 of the 5 basic "linkbait" hooks: resource hooks, humor hooks, and contrary hooks - not so much on news hooks or attack hooks. And "linkbaiting" might be a good topic for another post - it was certainly relevant at the Localization Business Roundtable on Social Media at LocWorld.