Anthill’s Top 100 Most Read Posts for 2009… so far

Anthill’s Mag 2.0 Experiment in late 2008 marked our first foray into ‘crowdsourcing’ publishing on a significant scale. Little did we know it would dramatically change the future of Anthill Magazine.

Given that Anthill turns six today (Yay!), we couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate our evolving ‘dedication to digital’ than by publishing the Top 100 Most Read Articles since the beginning of the year (Yes, this is what got you clicking in 2009).

1. Twelve ways to ignite your writing
2. Michael Jackson is NOT dead
3. Anthill Magazines Smart 100 winners 2009
4. The top 10 greatest Australian television commercials ever
5. 30under30 winners, 2009 (The Full List)
6. What the newspaper industry needs to do to survive
7. The crisis of credit visualised
8. Kyle Sandilands – King of Publicity or complete clown?
9. Top 5 new small business opportunities during the credit crunch
10. How the greatest movie one liners of all time can inspire your business
11. Why PRs are the last to ‘get’ the internet
12. The 8 things that lead to success
13. How I used Twitter to put a CEO on the street
14. Having trouble paying bills? Try digital arachnid.
15. More weird and wonderful business card designs
16. 6 tips for raising private capital in Australia
17. How to make a viral campaign go ‘Chk chk boom!”
18. Your business card is CRAP
19. How to choose a winning business name
20. 6 email marketing mistakes and how to avoid them
21. What are your logo colours really saying
22. Marita Cheng, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
23. Nick Ferguson, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
24. The top 10 lessons I learnt when my company collapsed
25. Look who’s in the Smart 100
26. Ross Hill, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
27. 12 months on from Commercial Ready axing, Australian companies are hurting
28. Is Twitter the start of Web 3.0?
29. What does Generation Y have to do with the economic downgrade?
30. SMART 100 (2009) profiles – Top 10
31. How to generate media attention for your startup
32. How to work with a $0 marketing budget
33. How to spend a marketing budget of $5,000
34. Negotiation tactics… in real life
35. Sophee McPhee, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
36. 6 Social Media mistakes other people make – and how to avoid them
37. Jack Delosa, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
38. The corporate spin FAIL of the year so far
39. How to fuel word of mouth like a fire
40. Why Chief Coffee Drinker is my most important entrepreneurial role
41. Eminem ‘tea bagging’ (how a publicity stunt can really hit the spot)
42. Anthill’s Top 10 Most Brainless Consumer Products (Part #1)
43. Shepherding the herd absurd
44. Website(s) of the week: Students locked up until they built 6 web startups from scratch
45. Man invoices consumer brands for wasting his time. So far, four have paid.
46. Top 10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs
47. Now you can get Hulu in Australia (and Stephen Conroy ain’t gonna like it)
48. The T-Mobile dance
49. Minister Carr wants to know how you would spend $196 million
50. Threadless sends invoice to some ‘f-cker from downunder’
51. Why we’re embarrassed about our new website (and proud of it!)
52. How to launch a venture capital fund (with Domenic Carosa)
53. Just how distressed is the US economy? Lets go to the graph…
54. You think Twitter is indulgent check out “hauling”
55. Is your logo a ‘no-go’?
56. Twitter is suing me!
57. Intrapreneurship: A guide to harnessing the power of entrepreneurs within organisations
58. Advertising is dead. Long live advertising
59. Basejumpers use wingsuits to fly – just amazing
60. 5 reasons your problems aren’t being solved (and 5 ways to solve them)
61. Dude, you stole my business idea! Confidentiality agreements 101
62. What you can learn from the online porn industry
63. What is Microsoft Bing? And do we really care?
64. How social networks are transforming TV
65. An entrepreneurial approach to job seeking in a recession
66. It takes 100 cups of coffee to refine your start-up pitch
67. Introducing… the Enlightened Stupid Marketer
68. Applications open for $83m Federal Investment Follow-On Fund
69. 50 Top Publicity Stunts
70. Free is not a business model
71. The history of the internet visualised
72. The PM was entitled to blow his top
73. The four elements for start-up success
74. How to raise private capital in turbulent markets
75. 10 secrets to marketing SMEs online
76. The internet, laid out like a city subway map
77. How Russian Roulette could save your business
78. Unusual ways to use humans as the marketing medium
79. Chaser’s ‘psychic’ swine-flu billboards
80. Twitter’s business plan leak offers lessons for any start-up
81. Will entrepreneurial success turn your kids into wankers?
82. Google releases the gBall… eh herm
83. How to open a bar
84. It’s social not commercial networking, for f— sake!
85. Do you suffer from Information Overload Syndrome?
86. Hate web ads? Now you can replace them with gallery art. But who’s paying?
87. Anthill seeks part-time rabble-rousers
88. IP Australia issues security warning – Trademarks Scam
89. Google Australia adds recent imagery to Victoria Fires Map
90. Can social media sell anything but itself
91. Five steps to winning the pitch every time
92. Pimp your bike with LED wheel lights
93. A collection of crazy inventions
94. Website of the Week: Conspicuous wealth never goes out of fashion
95. Apple dispenses with Macbook keyboard
96. Microsoft’s slippery viral video hit
97. Ari Gold’s business start-up advice in on the money
98. How we used social media to grow the Cool Company Awards
99. Tuckerman’s seven lessons from seven weeks of travel
100. Wilkins and 9 get Colbert treatment for on-air Goldblum eulogy

Phew!