Just a note that MakeYouGoHmm got its second Slashdotting (thank you!) yesterday! The first Slashdotting came on February 1st, 2005 for a driving while talking on cell phones study: Cell phone use while driving worse than having blood alcohol level of 0.08. The second Slashdotting (yesterday) was the piece on the rumored Gmail RSS tie-in: Google inches closer to RSS.

Coincidentally, another recent blog entry: Verizon CEO flames Wi-Fi and demanding customers was picked up by the St. Petersburg Times (Florida) online Business section, and despite them getting the domain wrong (they erroneously added an ’s’ to the domain) we actually had that misspelled domain and it was properly redirected here. Being mentioned/linked in that news publication has resulted in 2,000+ unique visitors in the last two days to this blog alone.

These two events combined for the busiest traffic day MakeYouGoHmm has had to date, and also helped propel this to be the busiest traffic month the site has ever had. Also, several new Bloglines and email subscribers (welcome!) and it was the best Google Adsense revenue day so far as well. And the Mariners won last nigh — woo-hoo! Hopefully this doesn’t sound too greedy, but I want every day to be like yesterday!

Thank you for reading, your support, and to the generous editors who linked to this site yesterday from both publications. The first Slashdot listing was done by a story that I submitted, so it wasn’t nearly as serendipitous as the last two days traffic has been. Today is off to a pretty good start as well. Remember, the Site Meter stats are public on the home page just click on the counter which as of this writing is at 193,811.

Browser share is now at 35% Firefox which aligns with the percentage of time I use Firefox on a daily basis. Microsoft (55%) better hurry up with the IE 7 beta! The scales are tipping …

• 29% of traffic sent to Audi from ad campaign came from blogs
• Google personalize
• BusinessWeek and Slashdot get context wrong, writes Zawodny
• Google Blog dogfoods to Blogspot + adds blogroll
• Firefox 29% vs. Internet Explorer 62% [site news]
• Topix paying million for .com reminder how to choose good domain names