It’s just data
An essay I wrote over seven months ago got 300 hits in the past 24 hours. This was due to a mention at the bottom of a lengthy and compelling rant by Joe Gregorio. Which was mentioned third out of a list of three items in a blog entry by Tim Bray. Which was mentioned by Slashdot.
While this doesn't guarantee that anybody actually read my essay yesterday, it does provide an indication that a large number of people actually read every word of Joe's and Tim's.
Sounds about right as I ended up with over 3000 hits from Tim's blog entry.
Posted by joe atYa gotta admit, "XML creator said XML is too hard for the people XML was created for" is pretty inflammatory stuff, even for Slashdot.
sniff Why don't I ever get Slashdotted? (Well, I was on developers.slashdot.org once, and apple.slashdot.org once, but never on the front page.)
Posted by Mark atTim Bray follows up with some information on his recent slashdotting of his XML Is Too Hard for Programmers. He got about 30,000 hits from that article which prominently linked to my Regex-able Xml item. I picked up about 3,000 hits from...
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