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.

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