Kieran Healy

Heavy Traffic II

Another day of heavy traffic to this site, nearly all of it due to referrals from Cursor.org. A commenter explained that it was because they were carrying Al Jazeera news in English, I think. In any event, I got more than 16,000 unique visitors. The comments section in the CNN post is a real zoo, with nearly 200 contributors, most of whom are very angry one way or the other.

Welcome to the “/.” effect! Hopefully though your traffic stays high and doesn’t drop after CNN moves the article down. Congrats none the less!

Yeah well, ppl in the west are getting tired of all the sensation/non critical journalism we are reciveing. Keep up the good work Al-jazeera, atleast you and BBC know what your job is all about!

The Arabic site is up again, just type http://213.30.180.219/ in your browser.