On 25/07/16 11:16, horrido wrote:
BREAKING NEWS!!!
My TechBeacon article has officially become the Most Popular at the website
with the number of views exceeding 11,200. And this only the first week of
publication!
It all happened because HN asked me to repost the article last night.
Apparently, they thought it deserved to be reposted because since last
Monday it hadn't gotten much traction. I owe HN great thanks.
This is also why the article's Live Listener Count jumped to over 340, now
settling around 260. That's still 10X higher than for any other TechBeacon
article!
See the active comment threads
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154484> at HN.
Clearly, I've tapped into a large vein of Smalltalk interest. It behooves
all Smalltalkers to take advantage of this and run with it. Use it to
evangelize and promote and initiate discussions with the public.
We may never get another opportunity...
May be, or may be popularity is not such an important metric everywhere.
I think is important to advocate Smalltalk and related ideas and
ecosystem. We're having now our Data Week [1] edition right now with a
workshop of 16 attendants from several disciplines (some photos at [2]
and [3]) and even share your post with them.
[1] http://mutabit.com/dataweek/
[2] https://tupale.co/s194
[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/DataWeek4?src=hash
Maybe two or three will be active/visible part of the local community in
a not so distant future, but this kind of slow community building with
small sustainable acts are less sensible to "catch the opportunity just
right now!" logic. Some sense of intensity (like in MOOC, hackathons,
making noise on hacker news, etc) needs to be combined with some sense
of quit, to get a better rhythm :-).
Bests,
Offray
