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Robert Rapier on May 15, 2007 - 10:48am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Do you have a Site Meter? If so, how much traffic did that bring in? How have the technical comments from the SlashDotters been generally supportive?

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rohar1 on May 15, 2007 - 11:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Slashdot has a lot of "first-post" comments that come in without reading the article. This is the 3rd time they have run something on the project, and although the comments aren't really negative, the value comes in in about a week when people with a real interest have read through all the information and thought about the idea for a while.

There is a lot of "it's not obvious until someone points it out" in a simple system and everyone has their own agenda, but since I improved the presentation materials and references, I really don't get much negative feedback. A small prototype has to be built to move forward.

Day Visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
07 May 143 750 2346 161.47 MB
08 May 164 616 3951 203.33 MB
09 May 493 1494 7476 641.40 MB
10 May 181 567 3098 300.14 MB
11 May 151 566 3658 335.37 MB
12 May 89 497 2965 294.59 MB
13 May 164 670 4465 368.93 MB
14 May 1863 10709 40518 3.10 GB
15 May 5255 29803 108976 8.04 GB

Back in January, it ended up being about 12,000 unique visits from the Slashdot article.

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garyp on May 15, 2007 - 11:31am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

That's interesting. Back in the day Slashdot used to be worth 10,000 unique visitors in the first hour, tailing off depending on what other stories came along later. I saw that on a story we had posted. If they are really down at <5000 they must really have been hit by the Diggs and Reddits of this world.

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Gilgamesh on May 15, 2007 - 11:56am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

check the alexia rankings, they tell the tale of the largely non technical audience.

the non-techies have gone to digg.

I still find reddit useful and interesting, mainly because the links all go back to the main stories.

Slashdot, inflammitory headlines/summaries, excellent community, excellent posts.

Digg exicitory headlines, horrible community, horrible posts

reddit typically accurate headlines, multiple submissions of similar stories(++ in my opinion), no comments in general

The higest impact will always probably be digg, as it is the lowest-common-denominator of the interet. Nothing wrong with that, however it has a definite audience.

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rohar1 on May 15, 2007 - 12:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Some of it is due to saturation and I get away with it because the project is not-for-profit and steam-punk, but a lot the Slashdot regulars have seen the SHPEGS information before.

The other thing is the posting of the details of the Microsoft patent infringement claims today. Slashdot is still very open source/anti-Microsoft and although there is geek interest in renewables, it's an IT crowd with a lot of personal and business investment in open source software.

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rohar1 on May 16, 2007 - 7:54am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The article activity on SlashDot is more spread out than it used to be. A large portion of the hits occurred more than 12 hours after the story was posted. The main link in the article also pointed to the TFOT article/nterview with a lot of redirects coming back from there today. Which I would interpret as people actually reading the TFOT article.

Day visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
14 May 1863 10709 40518 3.10 GB
15 May 9578 53219 194756 14.34 GB
16 May 306 2886 6548 407.07 MB
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garyp on May 15, 2007 - 1:16pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Looks like Prof Goose has added the Ghawar story to Slashdot. Visit the firehose and up vote it and we'll see if it gets posted.

Digg and Reddit appear to be blackballing theoildrum.com for the moment. I'd guess the small scope of the usual posters and the poor submission to acceptance ratio.

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Gilgamesh on May 15, 2007 - 10:56pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

consider a different idea for the blackballing, perhaps denial. or unfamiliarity with any of the subjects. Who even knows what/where/who/when Ghawar is when its submitted, titles mean alot.(my opinion of digg is 12-20 year olds in terms of 'emotional intelligence' with some more mature individuals trying to cut the cheese)

my suggestion is, "LARGEST OIL FIELD, GHAWAR, IN COLLAPSE"

there is a difference between 'selling' a point and convincing people.

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