Some of the things I do when I first rise from my Sleep of the Dead is to check my email and the feeds on Google Reader. Lo and behold, I discovered that HMTKSteve of Ramblings from the Marginalized had written a review of my blog.

I'm not sure I agree with the "psycho" category assessment, but I guess it all depends on the perspective. All in all, I think it was a good review considering I didn't ask for it. There are many metrics that serve as indicators of your popularity with readers. Getting a positive review is one of them.

On another note, I noticed a sharp rise in traffic. Some of it is coming from the review. Some of it is coming from a post I made back in August that someone submitted to digg.

The vast majority of the traffic is coming from Google searches. Did someone open the floodgates? I like to think that I'm pretty observant and I haven't observed anything that would account for so many searches ending up here.

Again, the only honest response to all this that I can give is, "Holy Mackerel!"

Edit: I spoke too soon. Digg traffic has really picked up.

Edit 2: The digg traffic continuously picked up until digg's bury brigade buried it. It doesn't bother me. Diggers suck.

Edit 3: Read this (the comments too): The top 11 things I have learned from Digg. Smite me if you think he's not telling the truth.