Principles of Macroeconomics: Third Edition / N. Gregory Mankiw
Submitted by hansdekker on Thu, 2008-05-08 05:32.Kingrat's most read review: "Last year I took a microeconomics class and signed up for a macroeconomics class. After purchasing the textbook, Seattle Central cancelled the class. Still, I needed to learn more about macroeconomics as what I know is kind of random and lacks building blocks that would help that knowledge make more sense."
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Oy! So I wake up yesterday, early. I have a 7 a.m. "boot camp" at the gym to get my ass kicked into shape. I check my email before going, as my plan is to head straight to Seattle after the workout, meaning I probably would go without email until the evening. I am email dependent because my mother lost the ability to speak last year, so her only way to communicate when I am not there is to email. But I digress...
I decided to quickly check the site before going. The stats line looked very flat. Then recognition dawned on me. The spot for today was at 500 hits, totally skewing my Y-axis. 450 hits coming from gregmankiw.blogspot.com. Click through quickly to see what happened. Greg Mankiw found my 1.5 year old review and linked to it.
Anyhow, the upshot of all this is that by the time I got back online around 4 p.m. the stats that I posted and Hans saw of 248 hits to this review... well they aren't even close to valid anymore. It's still the most read review on my site. But now by such a huge margin that it'll take a Stephen King link (though I don't think he blogs) or a BoingBoing link for something else to surpass that review in popularity. From 248 hits to 2,548 hits in a little over 24 hours.
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Hah, that's pretty cool.
Hope that boot camp is going okay for you...