Besides, it means at the very least that I got noticed by someone.
Looking at my statistics for the xwhy page for the past couple of days, I noticed a couple of unusual entries. First, there was MathFail.com, which I believe I punctuated correctly. There were only a few visitors, but they averaged 14 pages per visit.
I'll put aside for a moment my feelings for the use of the word "Fail" as a name, exclamation or expletive, even though that is as much Internet culture as calling a web log a "blog". This site is a blog with math jokes and other related links. Although I didn't make it onto the list of Favorite Math Blogs (and I can't argue with the choices because I read several of those myself), but I did make it onto the Top 10 list of geeky math comics / webcomics, with the following comment:
| 5. (x, why?) - A funny webcomic, and has over 350 comics published to date. The mot recent ones are kind of meh. |
I don't mind the comment, actually. That's feedback. I like feedback.
And I'll be the first to admit that as much as I like the current series of strips, even I didn't envision it going on for as long as it has. It will be taking a break before it runs its course so I can rework the conclusion.
The bigger spike came from Slashdot.org, which sent a couple dozen hits. Unfortunately, most didn't hang around long and none have come back so far today.
It took a while to track this one down for two reasons: first, because I linked to slashdot article about Mersenne primes, and second, because there is a poster there named Chris Burke, who isn't me.
In the end, it turned out that the MathFail.com post was crossposted where more people clicked on it. Mystery explained.
All publicity is good publicity! :-) I haven't linked the "golden mean" series from my facebook page, because most of my facebook friends are Mafia Wars players, so I really don't know how many might be math geeks. Actually, I suppose I should share them anyway.
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