Unabashed

Tuesday’s post was the first one I’ve ever had a Digg or StumbleUpon go wild. After chugging along for a while collecting between 100 and 300 unique visitors a day, Wednesday’s tally was near 10,000, and today is already up near 5,000. Those are huge numbers for this blog, easily records. It’s interesting, to me, because I’ve Dugg and Stumbled posts a few other times but never really got that much interest. Of course, it’s entirely possible that those posts just didn’t pique the ‘net public’s interest like this one did.

I got the idea for the post in question because I was thinking about cool science fiction gadgets, and couldn’t find a “greatest of” list on the web anywhere. There were tons of lists, of course; best spaceships, best scifi kitchen gadgets, best weapons, etc.; but never a list of the best SciFi gadgets. So I did one. Some agreed with it, and some hated it: as per the norm. The Stumble reviews were half and half good and bad. I’m okay with that, too, because most of the dissenters didn’t really understand the basic premise of the list: that it wasn’t populated with weapons or spaceships, that it was just gadgets. Some took exception to the fact that I only used gadgets from a few books and movies, or that I didn’t include some of the more obscure gadgets from other, older books. I was lambasted on one account for not having included any PK Dick gadgets, but again, I just shrug. It was my list. If they don’t like it or disagree with it, they can make their own list. I’m not saying that to be crude, I’m just saying the way it is. I’m fine with their disagreement. Perfectly. The only bad review that kind of hit me in the chin was one saying that it was “Terribly written and terrible chosen.” No further info, just those five words (miswording theirs).

I wonder if anyone who liked the post will add my feed to their reader, or if they’ll otherwise become regular readers. Time will tell.

Now I’ve got to go pick up my kids from daycare because a serious thunderstorm is rumbling nearby.

written by Matt Mitchell \\ tags: blog, Digg, stats, Stumble, StumbleUpon, visitors