A blog post about a blog post, or, getting hosed by HN, Scoble, and TechMeme

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45 points·antongm··7 comments

I don't care how few readers your blog may be getting right now -- if your CMS can cache content, turn that option on now.

The dinky homespun CMS that I run my NIN & Tool sites with essentially runs off static cache files, and has taken it's share of suddenly intense links from Slashdot, Digg, Reddit and the like without so much as a flinch.

Kind of disappointing that trolling works so well.

Sounds like 3 people (ie. your entire company) were distracted for an entire 24 hours over 30k hits to a blog. And then you lost another 24 hours writing the followup post..

You gotta knock these blog posts out when you have time and just keep grinding, you can't sit around in awe of your awesome blogging

(ps. 30k from those traffic sources is nothing. Only 50-100 of those people would have even bothered to look up to see who was responsible for what they are reading. Most people click, scan, close).

The co-founders banished me into a media quarantine to deal with it.

I assure you, the entire company was (mostly) not sucked into this.

And people did more than bother to look us up. Probably about the number you cited chatted us up via olark, clicks to the 'about' page aside.

Yeah, but this battle between NY and SF is getting tiring for those of who live in the other 48 states, or, for that matter, the other 3026 counties.

[ok, there's another 200 or so countries, but I think some businesspeople need to realize Binghamton is closer than Bangalore... it's not further away than the moon, which seems to be common wisdom]

How many converted to use your service (whatever that is - there is no mention on your blog)

The sound of three sphincters tightening fills our tiny office.

Totally redeemed your trollish blog post with that line!

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