Odd successes
October 28, 2011 – 9:12 amSuccess is a funny venture. A little less than a year ago I learned of the Barnes and Noble Nook Color. Upon hearing it was built with the Android OS and geeks were successfully making progress towards hacking the Nook Color I was crazy excited to get my hands on it and try it out. I studied all the materials and wrote up one of the first articles on the Internet explaining how to root the Nook Color.
Well sure enough I wasn’t the only one who was excited about the Nook Color, because I started getting thousands of hits all going to that same article. To date it actually rates as the most popular thing (in views and draw to the site) I had ever written. The page has been served up tens of thousands of times and accounts for just shy of 15% of all of the traffic I have ever received. I have written other things that I thought were cool, interesting, fun, current, but none has ever compared to that article in terms of Internet popularity.
The web has a strange way of defining popularity and success…
