As a blogger, you sooner or later experience the feeling that your readers and/or the whole world are a bit nuts. Case in point: The monopoly post just went over 100,000 hits. Is this REALLY that interesting to so many people? Side bar: I’m being interviewed about it by a radio program in NEW ZEALAND tomorrow…
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7 Comments
i’d imagine the bump was because the post was featured on kottke today:
http://kottke.org/10/06/the-shortest-possible-game-of-monopol
boing boing picked it up today, so expect more hits.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/15/shortest-possible-mo.html
As a matter of fact the Monopoly post was not all that interesting to me but it allowed me to discover this blog, which would have never happened without all the exposure it gave you.
I reject all this self-effacing language and pooh-poohing about the importance of this post. If every blog post on the internet were backed up by days of research and reached this level of quirkiness, how awesome would that be?
Word! Besides, one of you should be able to write a paper about diffusion and the intarweb and all that with the back-end data, no?
I hope you’ll be mentioning the actual fastest theoretical game on the radio!! http://monopolynerd.wordpress.com
I thought I would bring the following to the attention of the scatterplot community:
http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/23/how-to-beat-mario-brothers-3-in-11-minutes/
Not nearly as sophisticated, probability-wise, but I would imagine equally fascinating to a certain generation.