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?
0-100
100-1,000
1,000-10,000
Poll ended at .
When I posted that yesterday, the count was: 14.
As of now, it's 48.
Factors:
- NYT is paywalled.
- It was a pretty long piece and the link was well below the fold
- I've repeatedly heard it said that less than 10% of links are followed.
- By reading Krugman's sentence you knew pretty well what the blog piece was going to say.
Still, not a big number.
Methodology: zcat ../log/access_log.* | cat - ../log/access_log | egrep 'GET /ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain.*nytimes' | wc -l
jlapoutre@timbray thanks so much! Read both NY times and your article, great work and so completely aligned with my gut feeling about the whole blockchain biz. Oh and thanks for the term “proof of waste” - will start using that exclusively!
@jlapoutre Careful with that, it's a surefire way to get the crypto rabble really mad at you.