Officially Lucky

My stupid little site got a lot of linkage. The first big site to link was Violet Blue’s TinyNibbles.com (NSFW). I emailed Violet a screen grab of what I considered to be one of the funnier lines I wrote, “Steve Jobs Told Katie Cotton That You’re Rude,” because it was specifically about her (Violet’s) experience with Steve Jobs on the floor of Macworld.

That got a lot of people linking to the site on Pownce, Twitter, and elsewhere.

Yesterday Eric Zorn, a technology blogger at the Chicago Tribune, emailed me with a series of questions about. His article on the meme ran yesterday:

I am using] 66 [random phrases] currently, I started with about 20 I made up myself, but I had my friend Josette Torres help me with a bunch as well. I add a few each day as I think of them. The site is really simple. When you load or reload the site, a list of phrases is read in and a random phrase is chosen and displayed. A new item of the 66 possible choices is shown every time you load or refresh the site. It works just like a magic 8 ball except this one has 60+ possible phrases!

Around the same time yesterday, Christopher Beam, wrote a short post called “The Life Cycle of an Internet Meme” which sent a lot of traffic. Christopher created a timeline of each of the most popular “is your new bicycle sites” from February 14th when the Obama site was created through Feb 18 when I created my site, up til Feb 19 when the extremely meta, http://isyournewbicycle.com was created, successfully imploding the meme.

Even though my site hasn’t gotten nearly the same level of attention as the others (obviously), I still think it got way more popular than I had ever expected. Fun stuff :)