‘Best’ – now THAT’S a tricky word. The Oxford Dictionary of English gives the meaning of ‘best’ as ‘of the most excellent or desirable type or quality’ (was the author a Bill & Ted fan I wonder…), however, what makes something ‘better’ than something else depends on a whole bunch of usually unstated – and often changeable – criteria: the relative importance of which often depends on a number of other – sometimes subjective – factors. Take blog posts for example: which are the ‘best’, or ‘of the most excellent type or quality’, blog posts? The ones with the most page views? The ones with most comments? Maybe the ones with the most Tweets? Or perhaps it’s important to consider a number of such things? …for the sake of simplicity, let’s just brush the issue under the carpet and go with the number of Facebook ‘likes’:
#1 – Weighing in with an absolutely shocking 346 likes:
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#2 – A distant second with 165 likes:
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#3 – A close third with 157 likes:
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#4 – In at no.4 with a frightening 135 likes:
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#5 – And in 5th place with a respectable 60 likes:
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What? Only 14 people liked “Acknowledging Great Translators With Wikipedia Pages“?