When I wrote about Nikon's new D3X (two posts below this one), I had an inkling that I'd be among the first to break the news. After all, a quick Google revealed... well, not very much.
But I didn't realise that i'd be pretty much exactly the first, anywhere, to post confirmed specs and pictures. Or, for that matter, that the traffic to my blog would increase by more than a couple of orders of magnitude (that's a factor of 100, in case your high school maths is a bit rusty). The east coast has only come online in the past couple of hours or so, and there's still the west coast to come. So it ain't over yet.
See that spike over to the right? That's been causing me a few headaches today.
In the meantime, this humble little corner of the web is front page news. Oh, and here too. And here. And, um, all over the web, in fact. Who'd have thunk, eh?
My guess is someone at Nikon Europe is getting their ear chewed off right now...
Did Nikon ask you to remove the two scanned pages then?
Posted by: Matt | November 28, 2008 at 03:17 PM
No. I watched my blog stats spike, then go through the ceiling, then keep going. And realised I had to do something about it...
Links to the scans are still there, but they're now hosted elsewhere.
Posted by: Seb Rogers | November 28, 2008 at 03:25 PM
Congrats, I bet you pick up a more than a few new bookmarks :)
Posted by: Richard | November 28, 2008 at 07:27 PM
wow! dr000l :-) congrats NIKON! I love nikon :-x
Posted by: seansabado | November 30, 2008 at 03:15 PM
Just noticed you're front page on Strobist.com too now... As someone pointed out, maybe you should hit up Google ads, at least for a little while?
Posted by: Chris | December 01, 2008 at 09:20 AM
Thanks, Chris, Yep, it's in hand. Though I suspect most of the traffic I've had over the past few days will just go away, maybe there are a few people who've added an RSS feed or bookmark... ;-)
Posted by: Seb Rogers | December 01, 2008 at 09:45 AM