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Happy birthday to m… HOLY COW, I’m on digg

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There’s been a lot of interesting stuff happening the last 24 hours:

And then something funny happened to my blog. I submitted my post on the top 10 mistakes managers of geeks make to reddit and… well look what happened to my stats:

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Yikes. In short order the post got picked up by del.icio.us and Fark, but WordPress was till holding up. Then the post made it to the front page of digg, and the site promptly died :o)

The best part is that the post really seemed to resonate with people and it got a lot of insightful comments and great feedback. I hope people can use it to create better relations between geeks and managers.

And now that the site is back up and running I can go back to bed and sleep some more :o)

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6 responses to “Happy birthday to m… HOLY COW, I’m on digg”

  1. Billimek’s Blog

    How NOT to lead geeks

    A posting over at positivesharing.com titled ‘How NOT to lead geeks’ sheds an interesting perspective…

  2. Phil Gerbyshak Avatar
    Phil Gerbyshak

    Happy belated birthday. Congratulations on getting some positive buzz for yourself. We talked about your over at http://www.nobullshitleadership.com a while back, though it may not have given you quite the pop of the Digg. Enjoy the fruits of your labor, and keep being POSITIVE!

  3. Chica Avatar
    Chica

    Hey, Happy Birthday!!!

  4. Alexander Avatar
    Alexander

    Thanks, Pat :o)

  5. Alexander Avatar
    Alexander

    Thanks a bunch Phil. I gotta say: Those podcasts are frickin’ hilarious and I especially like the way you mangled my last name. Kjerulf. K-j-e-r-u-l-f. Is that so hard? :o)

  6. Reddit made my blog a hit

    […] I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I submitted that link. The post quickly made the front page of reddit and somebody submitted it to digg where it also made the frontpage. After which the blog promptly died :o) I wrote about the experience here. […]

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