Schnitzel redux - Stats

Lisa E. from S.L.C., if you're still there toughing it out as a Found In China reader, we have something special for you; tonight's dinner! Dedicated to our most stalwart member, we fixed oven-baked schnitzel with "Schupfnudeln" (elongated gnocchi egg-noodle thingies which defy translation).



- Take five 3/8" thick slices of pork, bake them, together with some chopped onions, in Oven-Baked Schnitzel sauce mix from your local grocer

- Brown the schupfnudeln (don't ask me where you're going to get those in Salt Lake) in a pan of butter, alternating the burner dial from 3 to 4 to avoid scorching.

- Pour yourself a nice frosty glass of cloudy wheat beer (unless you are Wife, who gets Pilsner) (unless you are LDS, in which case you get ice water).

OK, between cooking and packing, I thought I'd share a few HYTBuzzStats with everyone, to get a sense for how news moves:

Google Earth forum

Number of reads of the forum post: 56,846

Average readers per hour when it's slow: 25

Average readers per hour at this particular moment (post-surge after being Digged): 210

Maximum readers per hour: 935 (brief surge after Der Spiegel wrote a short piece on Huangyangtan)#

Number of Area 51 experts who don't like Huangyangtan being associated with their turf: lots

Technorati

Number of blogs mentioning Huangyangtan: anywhere from 50 to 330, depending on which day you ask it. No longer seems 100% reliable

YouTube

Views of that sorry video I made: roughly 13,000 (YouTube is down for maintenance at this moment)

Google Search

Results on "Huangyangtan": anywhere from 24,600 to 38,900, depending on when you search

This blog

3,686 reads (= 1,842 x both of my readers + 2 reads by Lisa E., the only person publicly admitting to it)

But, in the end, I could care less about the totals and how high they are. It's observing the periods of acceleration and deceleration and their causes which are interesting.