Our top 10 blog posts of 2008 list released Tuesday only included staff-written blogs posts. There was a simple reason for that: None of you lot made the top 10 list!

Still, this is an equal opportunity blog, so with that in mind here's the top 10 citizen blog posts of 2008 list.

1. Scanner News, posted by vwilroy on Aug. 3. (984)

2. My resume, posted by Cslider on January 11. (914)

3. MIKE TURMAN...WHAT THE HELL?, posted by TJtheDJ on June 19. (893)

4. Daniel "Danny" Espinoza the Killer of [Dorothy Anne Walter] March 5, 2006, posted by Lucio on July 17. (709)

5. Your 15 minutes of notoriety is over., posted by AudreyB on Dec. 13. (694)

6. Shooting on Oswell Between Hillburn and College, posted by woofwoof on October 21. (628)

7. Jack in the Box Fraud!, posted by ScottyJ on December 26. (806)

8. Looking for Sam, posted by ghostriter on November 25. (585)

9. It's a free for all.... public forum.... have your say !!!, posted by gsisola on September 26. (502)

10. October Surprise? (The "Whitey" Video), posted by ChicoEsquela on June 3. (292)

As an aside, ghostriter's 2007 blog post about her decision to get a tattoo amassed almost 14,000 views, more than any staff-written post of 2008. That particular blog post, though interesting enough in its own right, may have profited (view-wise) by a photo of Lindsay Lohan's tattoo. When someone does a Google search for Lindsay Lohan tattoo, one of the many sites which pops up in the search is ghostriter's blog post.

It's also interesting to note that many of the top 10 blog posts were eliminated because they were posted in 2007 or 2006. Such is the long 'tail' of information posted online that stuff often gets read years and years after it was posted.

Quite a few citizen blog posts which made the top 10 have been removed, either by the poster, or because the blogger has been removed from this site, presumably for being naughty in one respect or another. The post showed up on the analytics site we used to compile this list, but we didn't include them on the top 10 list. It's sort of like not being able to profit from that book deal while you're doing time in prison!