How the Internet Works — Jason Preston

I was curious about the sudden jump my blog took with my Apple posts, so I spent a few minutes digging through my stats program to find the culprit. So here’s what I found:

Over the past two days I’ve had an additional 215 unique IP addresses visit, and I’m not really sure what differentiates a “view” from a “visit”—but I’ll just say that on the 25th I had just under 200 “views” and today, so far, I’ve had over 600.

Why on earth did so many new people find my journal all at once? It turns out my entry was somehow (and really, I have literally no idea how—this is just how the internet works) listed on Macsurfer’s Headline News, down under “Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion” -

“Apple’s image: Appropriately following my previous post on how cool Steve Jobs can be, I thought I’d take a second to flesh out my disagreement with the way Apple names their operating systems.” Jason-Preston.com 9:18 AM

So to all you mac surfers: welcome. I hope you come back.