Internet

Somehow, my blog is the #4 link on Google for Piotr Adamski, the Polish model who I blogged about the other day, quoting an NYT piece about it. The NYT piece is #5. As such, I’ve been getting loads of traffic to my blog, nearly four times what I normally get.

My Slate piece was killed and I killed my own radio doc piece (not enough good sound and/or characters), but Tom Randall and I are currently on the steps of the Supreme Court waiting to get into the MGM v. Grokster oral arguments. Photos here. We’re Nos. 29 and 30 in line. We’re supposed to be let in around 9 am Eastern.

So at the time my article was published a couple days ago, I set up a little experiment to see how a relatively unknown idea propagates through the Internet. “HungryPod” turned up three hits on Google, and zero hits on Feedster and received an average of 30 unique hits per day. 72 hours later, Google now turns up 90 hits, Feedster turns up 9 hits, and within 24 hours of the story, Catherine Keane reported she received over 1100 unique…

Then there was something for the fellas. Now there’s something for the ladies. I love the Internet.

So I’m working on my thesis, and I come across this History of the Internet and this entry, under 1996: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, and Phillipine President Fidel Ramos meet for ten minutes in an online interactive chat session on 17 January. I can just imagine how this one turns out: You are now talking on #worldleaders a/s/l? what? Let’s place outcast — you don’t live on an island! Loser! But the Occupied Territories are…