Gizmodo Effect
I’ve heard of the Slashdot effect. I’m not sure if it still exists, but I remember a coworker of mine mentioning this way back maybe 5 years ago. Apparently people who were mentioned on Slashdot.org with a link to their site often experienced the effect of tens or hundreds of thousands of Slashdot readers clicking on that link and subsequently crashing their server!
Perhaps this isn’t quite the same, but after Joel from the always excellent and witty Gizmodo.com posted a link to my comparison of the Treo 600 with the Color Sidekick this morning, I’ve at latest count gotten over 1800 hits! Holy Cow! Before this I’d gotten less than 13,000 hits in the lifetime of this blog – over a year! So far, in probably less than 6 hours I’ve gotten the equivalent of what I would normally get in almost 2 months of blogging! I’ve looked at the logs and still so far most of the links are coming directly from Gizmodo, but it also looks like a few people are posting links to it elsewhere – like on their own blogs, which theoretically could accelerate things, at least for today, I’m sure over the next few days things will ramp down rather quickly, but it is interesting seeing how the traffic evolves and modulates over time…