Irrelevant Cheetah

Well, the furor has finally died down.

If you stopped by here last week, you may have noticed a bit more going on than usually happens around these parts. I wrote a little post about my rice.

Well, someone stumbled that post in the ‘journalism’ topic on Stumbleupon, and all of a sudden my page views went nuts. And by nuts, I mean that page has now received over 33,000 page views.

I know – for some of you that’s pocket change. But here at the Cheetah, where I’m lucky to hit 100 page views a day, that’s huge.

This is sort of what happened to diesel at The Mattress Police, albeit on a much smaller scale. His conversation with his ditch digger got stumbled, and that page got over 70,000 hits. Next thing he knew, he was getting negative reviews from Stumblers, and dealing with the fallout of a suddenly popular post. His response to those Stumblers is definitely worth a read.

I didn’t have to deal with negative reviews, but the commenters really came out of the woodwork. I was accused of impersonating a journalist (and failing,) not understanding global business and corporate politics, and other such things. It really makes it obvious that all sorts of people use the internet, and not only do they have very definitive opinions, but they often have those opinions loudly.

Really: all I wanted to do was mention the witty observation I made about my bag of rice. That’s it. It was supposed to be humorous, akin to Jerry Seinfeld asking “What’s up with that?” I didn’t realize that my little topic would piss off so many people.

But it’s died down now. I’m back to my little 50 page views a day, and to be honest, I’m missing the big time a little bit. I’m trying to plan my next big post. Rice turned out to be huge; maybe next I’ll write about barley. Or even hops. Or even both together.

I’m open to suggestions, and oh, yeah: if you like this post, Stumble it, would ya?