It’s been a wild past few days since unbeknown to me, an article I’d written was submitted by someone to the social news site Digg a day and a half ago.
My initial reaction was disbelief, as never before had I even dreamt of an article I’d written getting on one of my favorite sites (no less, one with over one million registered users and many more unregistered). Then came the excitement as slowly but surely more and more people dugg the article, which, for the record, I don’t even think is that amazing an article. I suppose the fact that the trailing question mark was excluded from the title, “New Google Search Feature?” may have excited people — all it was, in fact, was an error when you searched for the term “review:” on Google and I predicted from there (Digg users sure do love rumors and predictions!). Either way, after about four hours, the article hit the home page, though was quickly buried (modded down and removed from the home page by users) when Google remedied the issue and the bug I encountered couldn’t be replicated. But hey, even though I only got 70 diggs, it was really fun while it lasted; I’ll let these stats speak for themselves:
I suppose this would be a good time and place to congratulate you on a blogger’s dream come true.
Comment by Mike — May 7, 2007 @ 9:41 pm
Thanks, Mike
It definitely has been!
Comment by Henry — May 7, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
Well, you just owned me with those stats. AND you wrote the obligatory OMG DUGG! post, so props, Henry
Props and pies. Mmmmmm.
Comment by Ranjani — May 8, 2007 @ 11:21 pm
Is it not required that one write an “OMG DUGG!” post on pain of assault by internet police, Ranjani?
Comment by Henry — May 8, 2007 @ 11:38 pm