The Top 10 most popular posts of the year

It’s been quite a year for 10,000 Words. More than 100 posts and almost a million page views later, there has been an overwhelming response to the content featured on this site. Here are the most popular posts of 2009 and the stories behind them.

1. 10 News photos that took retouching too far

One of the most controversial posts to ever appear on this site (behind last year’s 7 Fonts that should Die), this examination of egregious photo editing was inspired by the controversy over the work of photographer Klavs Bo Christensen.

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