How I Set Scandinavia Buzzing
Please subscribeOver 30 months ago, on the eve of the 2004 election, I wrote a blog post about Bush’s heart problem. Or what I speculated was the possibility that Bush might be hiding a heart problem from the public. The post got some notice. I even re-published it a couple of times.
Then I forgot about it.
Then, this past weekend (and over 30 months after I originally posted it) it went viral in Scandinavia.
A website called flashback.info linked to it and my traffic quadrupled. Drilling down through the log files I found that the biggest chunk of traffic was coming from Stockholm but other cities like Malmo, Umea, and Uppsala were abuzz as well. It was even noticed in Finland … and at least two guys from the fjords of Norway.
It’s an interesting snapshot of how stuff goes viral in unexpected ways.
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