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November 08, 2005
Sudden Popularity Syndrome
Sudden Popularity Syndrome: "Tech Recipes" writes of what happens when your website is recommended on the front page of digg.com, and how this compares with the Slashdot effect. Meanwhile there's a parallel discussion of gaming Memeorandum -- or, more specifically, gaming tech.memeorandum.com, which appears to have a very different social dynamic than the original version about general current events. The weblog system can have real effects on writers, and writers can have real effects on the system, and I'm not sure how much of it all we can take at face value anymore....
Posted by John Dowdell at November 8, 2005 08:10 AM
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Getting featured at http://www.favoritewebsiteawards.com/ has a similar effect. Whenever our client work gets featured there we get an extra 10k visitors the first day and bandwidth goes through the roof.
Posted by: Stephen Felix at November 8, 2005 10:08 AM