Posts Tagged ‘15 minutes of fame’

On the radio talking trains with ABC Ballarat

It happened to me earlier this year and it’s just happened again – a missed call from a radio producer wondering whether I was free to chat on air the next morning on the topic of trains. This time around it was ABC Radio Ballarat, who had seen my recent posts on the Ballarat line […]

Listening to the sound of my own voice

There is one peril to being the number one hit on Google for an obscure topic – radio producers looking for a talking head will try and chase you down to get you onto the air. The story started on May 25, when somebody on Reddit posted a photo titled “I want to go down […]

Getting ‘hugged to death’ by Hacker News

The story starts when I published a piece on the backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport to my blog. Later that day I noticed that my website was now running rather sluggishly, so checked the logs – an explosion in traffic. And the reason – someone over at Hacker News had shared a link to […]

Some feedback via Reddit

A while back on Reddit, someone asked “What is your favourite Melbourne blog”. A random commenter recommended this site, with one wag adding this follow up comment. For those who don’t frequent Reddit, TIL = Today I Learned. I hope you all enjoy the random stuff I dig up as well. 🙂 And another one […]

Another 15 minutes of fame

It looks like my blog post yesterday about confronting a racist guy on the tram got a bit of attention, with almost 8,000 views of my blog during the day.

Traffic to my blog on March 20, 2014