Tim BrayWas wondering about the surge in my server logs…
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/opinion/blockchains-what-are-they-good-for.html
There was a brief mention of, and link to, my piece on AWS & Blockchain by Paul Krugman in the NY Times yesterday. So, here's a guessing game. How many hits to my blog do you think that kind of link generates?
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Arve@timbray Those numbers seem incredibly low. I remember getting slashdotted back in the day, ending up with well in excess of 100k hits in a day, and this was like 20 years ago
@arve Yeah, there's nothing today with the relative power that /. had back in the day. Closest is Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) which can generate *incredible* floods.
Phillip Hallam-BakerThat might change if Twitter and Facebook collapse. Its not just Musk taking some weird pills, the Zuck is spending billions to enable people to take VR tours of his office like that is a place they want to go. Its not even an interesting office, certainly not Bond villain lair level interesting.
Slashdot and the other blogs were slammed by the rise of Twitter and Facebook. They might well return to relevance.