Mother & Daughter, 2012
If you’re a regular viewer of The Colbert Report, you’re familiar with “the Colbert bump,” the
boost host Stephen Colbert says being on his show gives to whatever enterprises—movies,
books, records, political campaigns, etc.—his guests are promoting.
It seems my daughter has the same power. I posted a picture
at Flickr yesterday that shows my wife’s and daughter’s pocket books left
against a wall at my daughter’s office. I thought the contrast between the two
bags was interesting. (I’ll let you guess which bag goes with which lady.) I
didn’t think, though, that it would attract much attention at Flickr.
So you can imagine my surprise when I happened to notice
about an hour later that almost eight hundred people had looked at the picture.
That’s a lot more people than usually look at my pictures by a factor of…well,
let’s just say a whole lot.
At first I didn’t know where this traffic was coming from.
Most of it came from an Internet domain I didn’t recognize. By mid-morning the
count was almost to a thousand. When I checked back in later in the day the count
had just crossed 1,300 views.
It took a little sleuthing, but I finally traced all the
attention to a brief post and link by my daughter at her Twitter feed. It seems
the Design*Sponge “bump” is pretty powerful.
I sure hope I don’t get on her bad side.
hahaaa! love it! and I love her site.
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