Year in review

Happy holidays! A look back at 2014's top stories from harddeadlines

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Transparency is the new objectivity. MRI by Portsmouth Diagnostic Imaging.

Thank you, everyone, for spending some of your valuable time in this little corner of the web over the past year, and for taking the time to read and engage. I appreciate the reads, comments, corrections, e-mails, Facebook likes, shares, Twitter favorites and retweets. Thank you, every one.

With the holidays upon us, posting here will be spotty (well, okay, spottier than usual) for the next couple of weeks.

And as all news sites are virtually required to do by the Communications Act of 1934, here's a look back at the big stories of the past year.

What I thought of as an everyday snarky post back in January about a memo from our Portsmouth Middle School on the dangers of "Snorting Smarties" became an unexpected viral monster. For a couple of days, I understood what shooting the rapids of the Web feels like, starting with a trickle of media locally (Portsmouth Patch, EastBayRI), that led to pickup in major culture sites (BoingBoing, Gawker), and a sudden, exponential escalation in national outlets (Washington Post, CBS News), followed by international news in (England, Australia), culminating in a citation in Snopes.com.

Hard to live up to that kind of a start to the year. The rest of the list has a few political posts (in an election year, what a shock) with the ever-popular landfill still making the top ten. I'm particularly happy to see a couple of reviews made the list as well.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season, and best wishes for the New Year!

Care for a stroll down memory lane? You can find the top stories of the past five years of harddeadlines at these links: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010.

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