Today I learnt…

…getting a minor link in passing in an io9 article makes getting linked by reddit look like a normal day. Seriously: the scale is so different that on my stats chart everything up to the moment io9 linked me is now just a straight line… I had more views yesterday than in March, and March was a good month…

Not that I’m complaining or anything. Or excited, really – 90% of those views probably just saw how ridiculously long my post was and closed the window, 10% prodded a few pages and then closed the window, and maybe a handful might check back some time. Which isn’t a problem, but I’m not expecting any long-term effect of this brief public exposure. [I’m slightly curious why io9’s writer chose to link to me in the first place – I’m flattered, but it’s not like I’m well-known. I’m guessing they just googled the book to collect thoughts when they were writing the post and mind happened to come up for some reason.]

But anyway, if any of you io9 people happen to have hung around to read this: hi! Feel free to poke around, and feel freer to comment on anything.

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3 thoughts on “Today I learnt…

  1. Nathan says:

    Shit man, what got linked?

  2. My review of Lord Foul’s Bane, linked in passing from an io9 article on pre-GRRM writers who wrote gritty and realistic fantasy.

  3. Rabindranauth says:

    Those bumps always feel nice, even though they never really amount to anything, other than to remind you how minuscule a guppy you are in the ocean of the Web . . . . . or is that just me?

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