Categories Digital Culture Dear Interweb, Post author By griffey Post date December 19, 2004 4 Comments on Dear Interweb, Re: Nov 29th and 30th WTF? I didn’t even have an entry those two days. Share this:TwitterFacebook ← Ai! Ai! Cthulhu F’taghn!! → Betsy and Jason’s Holiday Dinner 4 replies on “Dear Interweb,” wow, that’s a weird spike. of course it could have just been that someone really really popular linked to some old archived post of yours. i found nothing on boingboing or technorati. what an interesting research question. i’ve actually been puzzling over it for a day or two. i think i’ve found the answer though, you appear to have been the “victim” of a secondhand slashdot affect, courtesy of this article: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/26/003251 and this google query: http://www.google.com/search?q=strawberry+shortcake+penny+arcade You totally should have been a librarian (LS side :)) Justin. Good detective work! Very good! I hadn’t linked the slashdot story to it…that’s almost certainly it. I STILL get a HUGE number of hits from Strawberry Shortcake. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d ever write. Leave a Reply Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ
wow, that’s a weird spike. of course it could have just been that someone really really popular linked to some old archived post of yours. i found nothing on boingboing or technorati.
what an interesting research question. i’ve actually been puzzling over it for a day or two. i think i’ve found the answer though, you appear to have been the “victim” of a secondhand slashdot affect, courtesy of this article: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/26/003251 and this google query: http://www.google.com/search?q=strawberry+shortcake+penny+arcade
Very good! I hadn’t linked the slashdot story to it…that’s almost certainly it. I STILL get a HUGE number of hits from Strawberry Shortcake. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d ever write.
4 replies on “Dear Interweb,”
wow, that’s a weird spike. of course it could have just been that someone really really popular linked to some old archived post of yours. i found nothing on boingboing or technorati.
what an interesting research question. i’ve actually been puzzling over it for a day or two. i think i’ve found the answer though, you appear to have been the “victim” of a secondhand slashdot affect, courtesy of this article:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/26/003251
and this google query:
http://www.google.com/search?q=strawberry+shortcake+penny+arcade
You totally should have been a librarian (LS side :)) Justin. Good detective work!
Very good! I hadn’t linked the slashdot story to it…that’s almost certainly it. I STILL get a HUGE number of hits from Strawberry Shortcake.
There’s a sentence I never thought I’d ever write.