The Digg Effect
March 19th, 2006 by Jake
I guess fame has its price, as most things do in this world. My Windows Vista story managed to land itself on the front page of Digg.com. If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s a really sleek technology news site that’s immensely community-driven. Unfortunately Slashdot and Digg work in horrendous ways…check out my Awstats reading from the past couple of hours:
Amazing how powerful the Internet can be sometimes. Still, I did manage to get on the homepage of Digg, which is saying something. One story is enough for me for now, I’ll wait ’till things cool off before attempting this again.
Update: My Digg story is now on the third page, so I hope traffic will dwindle. I thought I’d provide an update, though. My story ended up getting over 700 Diggs consuming 50 Gigabytes of bandwith. That’s just this month, too, on average, people only use 2-3 GB/mo. Too much excitement for me, next time I submit a story, I won’t try as hard to get it to the front page.
Ravensky says:
March 19th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Congrats :P
Right now I’m getting an average of about 3 thousand unique hits a month according to awstats. I only get 10 gigs of bandwidth a month though ;)
Jake says:
March 20th, 2006 at 12:08 am
Eh. I could use a little more bandwith than that. Mine’s supposedly unmetered, but the server was definately slow today.
Thanks for registering, by the way ;)
Daniel says:
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:03 am
Now I know why the server kept crashing… usually it’s my dodgy scripts.
Just a few minutes ago I checked bandwidth and you were close to the top, had a look at your stats and aha, top referrer is digg.com
Jake says:
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Yep yep, sorry about that, I’ll try to keep my diggs to a minimum but sometimes they just “happen” ;)
Kevin says:
March 28th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Jake, didn’t I tell you not to create hundreds of fake Digg accounts and digg yourself?
See what happens when fame goes to a guy’s head?
*grumbles* crashed my site along with it…
Jake says:
March 28th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Kevin, I only wish I had those skills…