Comments on: Why I Hate Traffic Spikes

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:34:21 +0000

Great thought, Mike. You do have a point. Cheers!

By: Mike Klein

Mike Klein — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:44:44 +0000

I thought your post was interesting, but I question why would would hate having to improve?

Gene Simmons (Kiss) said, “The second you rest of the laurels of your past success you are done…it’s over.”

Champions benchmark against themselves. :)

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:48:32 +0000

I totally hear you. I am now just generating reports from two days after the spike and on. That way I get some sanity.

By: DGentry

DGentry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:39:03 +0000

My second blog post spent most of the day at #1 on the programming reddit, 20,000 hits. I mistakenly thought that was how blogging was supposed to work: you write a post, 20 kilopeople read it, a few dozen leave comments (some spiteful), etc etc. My disappointment after the next post was palpable.

If I look at the Analytics for the complete history of my blog, its like the Eye of Sauron surveying a bleak landscape. There is a huge spike at that second post, plus several barely visible bumps in an otherwise flat line at zero. It is definitely a de-motivator, not exhilarating at all.

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:23:38 +0000

That’s very interesting. But it is key that you forget about it and move on (and difficult). Thanks for dropping by!

By: Hutch Carpenter

Hutch Carpenter — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:13:58 +0000

That period after the post is really hard. I found it hard to think or write about anything after the Cisco Fatty story went viral.

The one good thing is that the story was not “in my sweet spot” of enterprise 2.0 or innovation. So it was a little easier to mentally file it away as the anomaly it was.