Emptybottle.org: Bullshit, Dugg

Well, it only took 7 months, but my Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™ toy from January got dugg, and seemed to inspire much jocularity.

It's been interesting, because the page has been one of the most-linked bits of the site for the last 6 months, almost exclusively amongst weblogs in Europe and Asia, for some reason. Then, a few days ago, (near as I can trace it), after I dropped it into a comments thread at Metafilter, it was picked up by milov.nl, then automatically showed up on Hot Links, then Daring Fireball (kablooie went the visits), then Reddit and Digg almost simultaneously.

Happily, the server shows absolutely no signs of melting down (er, so far). Like I said recently, Dreamhost has treated me well.

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Update: Whoops, now Techcrunch and de.licio.us and Blue's News and Dvorak and O'Reilly Radar, too. Memetastic! Now it just needs posting on the front page of Metafilter, and the circle of life will be complete.

[Note: should not be posted to the front page of Metafilter]

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Well, this is a post to the personal website Emptybottle.org. It was posted by your genial host stavrosthewonderchicken on August 21, 2006, and is titled Bullshit, Dugg. It was published to the categories: Links, and Me|dia, and Random Silliness. In any of those places you might well find other similar things that will bring you Super Double Happiness.

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Comments: You got fingers, right?

28 Comments |

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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said

Can you let us know how much traffic Techcrunch and Digg gave you and how many people get to your blog from your page? It would be interesting to know what the conversion is...

August 21, 2006 6:58 PM
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stavrosthewonderchicken said

Sure, Boris: once the dust settles I'll do a followup...

August 21, 2006 7:02 PM
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andrew said

Dude, you be listed on Daring Fireball, you better be using a Mac ;-)

August 21, 2006 7:03 PM
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feezen//freezen said

bullshitr rocks! you'll be responsible for at least 300 startups *g*

August 21, 2006 8:18 PM
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stavrosthewonderchicken said

Thanks, f//f.

And Andrew, I won't tell if you won't. I did use Helvetica Neue, though, so that's got to count for something. Heh.

August 21, 2006 9:52 PM
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Doug Alder said

"Now it just needs posting on the front page of Metafilter,"

Sounds like a dare to me Stavros ;)

Metafilter here we come
Wonderchicken needs some fun
hackers and mashers will fill up his queue
Web 2.0 stinks like poo

Ok I've run out of "inspiration" ;)

August 22, 2006 7:03 AM
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feeder said

You probably must add couple of more lines...into the Bullshitr page...

9. If you fail please watch this movie DOT* and be happy.

(*Note that the movie is a 500MB file and may take sometime to load..instead you can get it in
3 parts here).

August 22, 2006 9:43 AM
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brainwidth said

I was this close to posting it on MeFi. Alas, I shall refrain, despite the fond memories of Dack's web economy bullshit generator it evokes.

August 22, 2006 10:06 AM
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Gen said

Stav, friends of mine who were delighted by your fun toy pointed me to Doc Searls' effort with 1992 HyperCard stack BuzzPhraser.

http://www.buzzphraser.com/buzzstory.html

August 22, 2006 11:34 AM
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nemo said

http://m8y.org/tmp/bullshit.html
A version that doesn't miscalculate the indexes.

August 23, 2006 2:33 AM
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stavrosthewonderchicken said

Heh, thanks for that, nemo. But my story is that the errors are there because Bullshitr™ is in (perpetual) beta (and I'm sticking to it!)

And thanks for the link, Gen. These things are old as the hills, I know -- I made one in VB back in the boomboom days of '99, I think, making fun of my company's corporate-speak Mission Statement (never have so many been paid so much to draft a statement meaning so little) -- which made the internal rounds via Web 0.5 (email).

August 23, 2006 11:29 AM
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JRE said

that's the shit. sold to yahoo.

August 23, 2006 12:41 PM
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Scottman said

3031 diggs, Danm you are a Weblog God..........Andy Wibbles is shit compared to you and this blog

August 24, 2006 12:48 AM
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Apie said

Hi Wonderchicken.
Your site made me heaps of cash on itsdex.com.
I saw it was showing up on reddit, posted it to digg - what do you know - people just love bullshit dont they!
Great little app. Made myself a logo aswell.
Apie

August 24, 2006 8:53 AM
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Geodog said

If we get you on the front page of TechCrunch, will you and she who must be obeyed move to Silicon Valley?

Will fame spoil you, STWC?

August 24, 2006 5:09 PM
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stavrosthewonderchicken said

Geodog, my friend, I'm far too pickled to be spoiled. But decant and drink a few ounces of that wonderchicken mummy-juice out of the clay vessel, and it'll take your mind screaming blissfully through the liminal veil of existence.

Which might not make a lot of money for your average Silicon Valley company, granted, but on the off chance that it might, I think there's a business case to be made.

August 25, 2006 9:25 PM
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foomonger said

Hi,
Just thought I'd let you know that I found this site via Alexa:
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/movers_shakers?lang=en

August 29, 2006 3:08 AM
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Milo said

Glad to have played my small part in all this :)

August 30, 2006 10:45 PM
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Man said

Interesting site

August 31, 2006 6:00 PM
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Elaine said

I saw that linked from somewhere recently and thought: hey, isn't that something stav did? and: Dvorak? ::shudder::

September 2, 2006 11:00 AM
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Dmitri said

Your hits went up because of Digg, not Daring Fireball. Speaking as one who has been 'dugg', I know this to be true. Also, check sites such as Alexa. DF doesn't really rate at all.

September 3, 2006 7:37 PM
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stavrosthewonderchicken said

Well, no, Dmitri. I watched it with interest in realtime. The first surge in hits was from DF, for a day or so.

Of course, once Digg kicked in, the surge increased in size by a couple of orders of magnitude, with secondary waves from the other big sites (including the Alexa Movers and Shakers thing and ars technica, but they happened quite a bit later).

Or, what I said in the post. When I get around to it, I'll do a post-mortem with numbers and stuff, because a few people have asked.

September 4, 2006 9:01 PM
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LinkPanther said

I am confused.

September 5, 2006 2:59 AM
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Markus said

Hey, great generator. I hope it will be usefull for us, too :-)
But nasty little bug. I suggest you change

var max1 = 20;
var max2 = 20;
var max3 = 20;

to 19 each (array index from 0..20), the well-known off-by-one error.

;-)

Cheers,
Markus.

September 8, 2006 5:21 AM
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adam said

I got a good laugh out of this, so I showed it and the logo generator to a friend - who I'm developing a web-site with - and he absolutely loved the logo. He actually wanted to use it for the site! Silly guy.

September 9, 2006 1:12 AM
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Milo said

I was about to suggest the same thing as Markus but thought the "undefined" error string that shows up sometimes actually fits in very well! :)

September 11, 2006 8:41 PM
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Alexis Bousiges said

I found this site wia ALEXA too :-) your Bullshit Generator make big sucess :-)

September 12, 2006 5:14 PM
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Phrasengenerator said

Thank you for contributing this great site!
Added you to the link list of the Phrasengenerator.

September 28, 2006 10:09 PM