The Indirect Slashdot Effect

I submitted a story to slashdot the other night linking to Leonard Richardson’s Programmers at Work post. The submission languished in the firehose queue for a day, got up-modded by the user community, and then this afternoon was posted to the front page of slashdot.

Tonight I spent a little time watching the progression of a story around the net.

The coolest thing about the story for me came from seeing how a small minority of the slashdot crowd initially mocked the simplicity of Richardson’s site, but then rallied to defend it based on his longevity as a blogger and economy of style.

Slashdot was my second choice: the mindless link propagation that is reddit apparently didn’t want the link, although it’s now made it to the 10th position after someone submitted it a couple of hours after the slashdot story appeared. Bad karma, I guess.