...kinda.
I called in sick yesterday and stayed home from work. When I finally got up and started moving around, I went to the Net and began browsing. In short order, I came across Glenn Reynolds's response to Jonah Goldberg's complaint-by-proxy, saying the Instapundit hadn't made mention of the recent Supreme Court 1st Amendment weakening.
The previous day, I ran across the new Goldberg File and it complained:
By the way, where the hell is this much-vaunted blogosphere? If three freshman congressmen from Wisconsin hinted that they wanted to regulate the use of umlauts on the internet in honor of Leif Ericson's birthday, bloggers would be on the steps of Congress up-ending cans of gasoline on themselves in protest at such an infringement on free speech. But here we have all three branches of the government severely restricting independent speech outside of the dinosaurs of Old Media and the relative silence - minus a few noble exceptions (The Volokh conspiracy, Instapundit) - is deafening.
So I looked around and came up with a list.
Well, when I found Mr. Reynolds' response I e-mailed him a notice that the blogosphere had responded to the SC ruling. And I even I limited my blog browsing to right-leaning and libertarian sites; doubtless lefty blogs also posted on the topic. I closely watched my referral logs and waited.
Within five minutes, he had read the e-mail and checked my post out. Within ten minutes of that, he had an update on his post. First referral came through seconds later.
Unfortunately for the ambitions of my Total Post Count, the update wasn't on a post near the top. It was on his first post of the day at 7:54am and I didn't send him the e-mail until 2pm. So the traffic bump was only enough to make it my best Friday evar. The logs say about 85 people visited from Insty's page, which is about 1/3 a weekday's normal take and 1/2 a weekend's normal take.
An interesting experience.
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Still, congratulations! After getting mentioned so much on Anger Management, I found out that hit jumps like that are REALLY satisfying.
Posted by: Erik on December 13, 2003 03:02 PMWe're supposed to feel that being popular (even the vanishingly temporary popularity such as it is on the Net) is wrong, but it is nice to get noticed, an outside acknowledgement that someone agrees with you. Or at least finds you useful. :)
Posted by: Drizz on December 13, 2003 03:47 PMJust don't forget Im the original fanboy. Even if I dont read you as regularly as I once did.
Btw, write something about the asshole being caught. Im not seeing enough 'yee-haw' on the internet. ^^
Posted by: Ken on December 14, 2003 09:21 AM