{"id":98,"date":"2006-04-01T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/?p=98"},"modified":"2006-04-01T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T10:36:29","slug":"the-day-powazek-linked-to-moonbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2006\/04\/01\/the-day-powazek-linked-to-moonbug\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day Powazek Linked To Moonbug"},"content":{"rendered":"

This site gets about 20 unique visitors a day, many of them via Google Image Search, looking for this<\/a> (hello, “nude+guy” googlers!). Peanuts of course, but I don’t mind as I don’t do anything to promote it in any way. I actually find this absence of “must update, must attract new readers!” pressure quite pleasing, and hardly ever Check My Stats\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<\/p>\n

One lazy Saturday in September last year however, right after I had posted Hairweave Biff<\/a>, I did have a look at who was visiting. Surprise: SiteMeter tells me some 200 people have visited — and it’s only 12:30 pm. Weird<\/em>. Click on referers. Jaw drops.<\/p>\n

powazek links to moonbug<\/a><\/p>\n

Derek Powazek<\/a> had linked to Moonbug. Derek “Fray<\/a>” Powazek, a widely read blogger working at Technorati<\/a>, married to another widely read blogger<\/a> — had linked to Moonbug. My Frank & Debby<\/a> entry to be exact.<\/p>\n

For the next couple of days, traffic went through the roof. Suddenly, figuring out what to post next became of such quintessential importance that I froze and didn’t post anything. For a week. And when I finally did post something, I had to go and share this wonderful demonstration of dull mediocrity<\/a> with the world. Brilliant timing indeed. Mister Cool, oh yeah.<\/p>\n

So now we’re back to 20 unique visitors a day, the warm coziness of internet obscurity, and an audience that consists largely of people desperate to see a drawing of a naked man (hello, “nude+guy” googlers!).<\/p>\n

Unless of course, Mr. Powazek decides to link me up again<\/em>.
\nHey: it could happen to you!<\/p>\n

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to Check My Stats\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This site gets about 20 unique visitors a day, many of them via Google Image Search, looking for this (hello, “nude+guy” googlers!). Peanuts of course, but I don’t mind as I don’t do anything to promote it in any way. I actually find this absence of “must update, must attract new readers!” pressure quite pleasing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}