A lesson in driving up readership

On Friday, April 24 the Chronicle’s Wired Campus ran an item on the failure of U. of Michigan’s Online Teaching-Evaluation System. The article was hot news because of the scale of the player and the scale of the failure. I posted this comment near midnight Sunday, April 26:

My comment on the article

This drove a large spike in readership of the associated resources on April 27.

Page views for WSUCTLT blog

And examining how readers got to the site we see they came from several related pages in the Wired Campus article.

pages that referred to WSUCTLT

which brought readers to these pages

pages viewed as a result of the comment

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