{"id":216,"date":"2006-06-24T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T19:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/06\/makezine\/"},"modified":"2006-06-24T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T19:41:20","slug":"makezine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/06\/makezine\/","title":{"rendered":"Makezine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out my web site statistics today. Lately I&#8217;ve been averaging a little less than 300 hits a day and it drops to about 200 on the weekends.  So I was surprised to see I was up to 217 already this afternoon and even more surprised to see 35 hits in the last hour. Usually 25 is the highest I get and at this time of day it is usually around 12. I knew something had happened so I checked to see where the referrals were coming from. They were all from a site called <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\">Make:<\/A> or Makezine. It seems to be mostly electronics-related do-it-yourself projects. Once I went to the referring page,  I scrolled way down and found the entry linking to my page. It is titled <A>Every freaking way to charge an iPod<\/A>.  The description is very short &#8220;Ted has a round up of just about all the ways of charging an iPod and\/or making a DIY battery pack,&#8221; with a link to my battery pack page and a picture of my Band Aids battery pack.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to be appreciated, but like the time someone posted the page on <A HREF=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2005\/you_digg.html\">Digg.com<\/A> I am sure the increase will be short-lived. Originally posted at 3 AM, it is already the last post on the home page, with obscurity soon to follow. Still, by the end of the day the counter was up to about 780 with a peak per hour of 96, the biggest traffic day ever. Similar to the Digg experience, it resulted in no ad clicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out my web site statistics today. Lately I&#8217;ve been averaging a little less than 300 hits a day and it drops to about 200 on the weekends. So I was surprised to see I was up to 217 already this afternoon and even more surprised to see 35 hits in the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/06\/makezine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Makezine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}