The Public Access Weekly: Cake every day

What a week! Not only was it Public Access' first birthday this week -- And a very happy birthday to all of you who make Public Access what it is! -- But we also have stats on all the stories from May, details on a comments upgrade, special anniversary topic suggestions and an upcoming mini-contest to find our next Q&A interviewee. So. Many. Activities!

If you'd like to help us celebrate Public Access' first birthday, you can check out our birthday post (which includes a traditional Public Access style GIF party); we've also got a story up that highlights the twelve most-read Public Access stories of the past twelve months. A hearty congratulations to all the authors featured in that story, and a heartfelt happy birthday and thank you to all Public Access members -- we literally could not do it without you!

Over in the comments section, you may have noticed that we now have a user history enabled which means if you click on a user's screenname you'll get a pop up menu that displays all of that users comments. Clicking on the black box with an arrow next to the date will take you to the article that particular comment appeared in. It looks like this:

Lastly, keep an eye on the Public Access home page on Monday; we'll be releasing the Q&A contest post that I mentioned in the birthday post -- All the Public Access Weekly headlines are veiled pop culture references and the member or reader who guesses the most correctly will be our next Q&A star. Monday's post will have all the titles, and entry details so if you'd like to be our next Q&A interviewee, this is your chance!

Hey how about some Public Access story stats from May?

• 90 total articles went live in May! Ninety. 9--0. That's not only the best month we've had all year -- it's also the best month we've had since our launch month (June 2015). AND, it's the fifth month in a row that our post count has beat the previous month. AND that is freakin' awesome.

• 45 different Public Access members published posts -- including 26 members who put up their very first stories. Welcome to all those new members!

• The Public Access member with the most posts published in May is: Dianna Labrien, who published nine posts in May. Second-place is a two-way tie between Lovisa Alvin and Jerry Li who each published six posts.

And the top 10 most read Public Access posts for May (as always, not counting the Public Access Weekly) were:

1. Double Play: How sports games reach deeper into gamers' pockets by Richard Starr

2. How Technology is Changing our Vacations: Relive All of your Vacation Memories with These Three Travel-Sized Cameras by Daniel Choi

3. How Much Internet Speed Do You Really Need? by Sarah Pike

4. How Android is Making Its Mark in Medical and Health Technology by Alice Williams

5. Samsung Releasing Smart Contact Lenses That Are Straight Out of Spy Movies by Dianna Labrien

6. How Social Networks are Bringing Communities Closer Together by Allan Smith

7. Copenhagen Calling - Denmark Has A Thriving Start-up Scene To Rival Its World-Beating Business Culture by Edmund Ingham

8. Wine Merchants Across The UK Are Collaborating With Disruptive Tech Startup That Wants To Be The Amazon Of Wine by Edmund Ingham

9. The Final Fantasy Soundtrack: A Reflection by Mark Zita

10. Operation Finish All the Games: April 2016 by Kris Naudus

Looking for something to read? Check out:

Of all of our coverage of Computex 2016, Devindra's hands-on experience with the Asus Zenbook 3 was one of the most popular -- and people are not happy about the single USB port (and not in love with Asus support either).

Watch me guest host our ICYMI video show while Kerry was on vacation! Or, you know. Don't. My feelings won't get hurt.

Dan reviewed the Tommee Tippee Perfect Prep -- a gadget that purports to help busy new parents prepare bottles for their infants. As with anything child-related or parent-oriented, folks in the comments had plenty of opinions and advice about his findings.

Looking for something to write on? Mull over:

A bill currently working its way through our legislative system is designed to ensure that retail companies inform their customers of data breaches -- While the various details of HR 2205 get hashed out, tell us how should companies handle data breaches? What kind of response would you expect, or consider to be responsible, from a retail store whose data has been compromised?

Later this month, 72 new tiny emoji will be available including bacon, avocado and facepalm emoji's. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell us in a Public Access post what emoji you are sorely lacking in your digital life. Maybe like me, you're dying for a skateboard emoji or a vinyl record emoji. What emoji should get added next?

If you're a Public Access member be sure to check out the Topic Suggestion tag after you sign in -- we've re-released the first three Public Access topic suggestions (Growing up geek, Your first screen name, and A haiku for your ISP) for our one-year anniversary. They'll be available for a limited time, so snap 'em up while they're back!