The Digg Front Page
Yesterday I got Dugg big time. It started with me using Stumble Upon to stumble my own article, Six Funny Life Lessons. A while later, I noticed via the real time hit tracker HitTail that I was getting serious traffic from Stumble Upon, and after a while from SU’s Humor Buzz. From there on, someone Dugg the article which then started to gain momentum around 10 hours later.
Soon enough I hit the Digg front page. Upon hitting it, the server went down immediately. The server had to be restarted two times and port 80 had to be closed for me to install WP-Cache. If you plan on getting Dugg, install WP-Cache. After installation, CPU usage remained at around a constant 15% with 70 requests per second.
Aftermath
- As of now, the article has had 2,137 Diggs and 7,285 Stumbles.
- Noticed that my FeedBurner subscription has rose to 563 people from 10. How shall I entertain all of you? 
- Technorati rank of this blog has risen from 200,000+ to around 70,000.
- It was featured on the front page of del.icio.us.
- A bitter comment was received from a guy who thought I had stolen his post when visiting his blog, while in fact I visited it in a Google search to check whether the content was unique or not. Check it out below.
Comment:
I wonder where you got this post? I noticed you visited esofthub’s web finds. You should at least give credit. I doubt you will publish this comment.
Don’t live a life of doubt. 
My email response:
Dear Sir,If you learned reading in school, you should now realize that I got them sent via email.
The reason why I showed up on your MyBlogLog Recent Readers list was because I did a search to see whether or not the stories were unique, which of course they weren’t. Therefore, your argument accusing me for not giving you proper credit is flawed. Besides, where did you get yours from? It is very hypocritic accusing me for stealing your work when you yourself have failed to mention your source.
Have a nice life,
Carl
He was referring to his post located here. By the way, if you want to link someone and not provide any benefits (such as Google PR or Technorati rank) to the receiver, use the TinyURL redirection service.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
…and your S/U page is?
http://aldoushuxleyscat.stumbleupon.com/
=^..^=
April 19th, 2007 at 3:21 am
LOL DANG CARL.
Ballin?
Good job bro.
April 20th, 2007 at 5:00 am
suddenly youre not insignificant for a half-second. wowowowow. stop bragging. who cares?
April 20th, 2007 at 6:55 am
As you commented, you obviously seem to care.
April 21st, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Nice job!!!
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April 26th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Imo this is slick. You infer from #7 that you wrote the article, then you also talk about Stumbling ‘your own article’. Also infers that the content is original, when actually only the first paragraph is original. You did put one sentence that said you received it by email, but you walk the line very well. You did reply to one guy that said you stole the comment, so if/when people did find out you didnt actually write this, you wouldnt get backlash from the blogosphere. And in general, who would really get that upset anyway, right?
So you covered yourself with two instances where you say you didnt write it, but then wrote the main article as if you did, and ultimately used an email joke to gain tons of readers and traffic, . A REALLY honest person would have said ‘posting a joke I found on my blog’ in #7 but you can even fall back on the idea that its just part of the joke, you didnt actually mean you wrote it. Although thats what most anyone would infer from reading it.
Well done, mate. Well done.
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