Let's be brief on this one: there's now a page that shows you which stories have been most viewed on the Guardian Technology site, for the past 24 hours and the past 7 days.
So bookmark, if you will, the past 24 hours and the past 7 days.
And lend us your opinion: do such things tend to emphasise the few over the many, so that the long tail of content gets lost in a miasma of a small selection of stories that you may (or may not, of course) have heard about already? Or is it the ideal way to find out what the zeigeist zeitgeist (ta, BarryMcC) of the moment is?
Do you pay much attention to "most read/most emailed" links on other sites? And do you think it would be a sensible way to decide how to position stories in the future (for example, a frequently-read but old story might keep its position on the "Technology front page" online if it seemed to bear up)?
(I'm encouraged, by the way, that one of the most-read stories is about nanotechnology for brighter LEDs. Nice to know there's interest in tech beyond keyboards.)
