Pick a post from 2008, any one post and describe why it was the best. Do it in 30 words.
This post is a participating entry of Joanna Young’s year end writing project titled Simply The Best
My 1996 McDonalds Hamburger post is simply the best because it went completely and absolutely wild on the internet. People found it amusing, newsworthy and some didn’t agree with it.
Here are the details:
September - ever have a post go completely viral ? The details are just too wild not to share:
My share today has to be the burger post. Not because I was brilliant to post it, but because of the way it showed me how VIRAL the internet can be…even if it was about a McD’s burger
This post on it’s first day was stumbled, dugg and landed in reddit’s WTF section ending as the #4 post of the day. The other top posts that day were about Obama – yup me, my old hamburger and Obama!
Commenters had an absolute field day with it – much of it was negative - the devotion to a burger astounds me.
102,000 hits that day, a month later it reached over a half million hits in 195 countries. Currently there are over 1000 comments on that post blog, mostly icky and mostly pro-burger. Someone said that is called trolling? Troll comments still come in daily
Wired, boing-boing, nat’l post, men’s health and a whole host of others picked up on it; a portugese news magazine Visoa did an interview published in November.
I am told that a mcdonalds rep declared me as nothing but an urban legend
I rec’d calls from Berlin, the UK, Spain, and all over the US, and Canada. Thank goodness that the folks who called were much more kind than the ones who left comments.
My daily traffichas quadrupled. How’s that for an organic non-monetized blog author ?
Men’s Health Magazine has purchased the mcdonalds burger pic for their best and worst of 2008 issue( jan/feb)
do not replicate w/o permission — photo taken by karen hanrahan
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7 Comments
Karen,This post sure did create a stir! I liked the post you wrote on the kitchen compost from your kids. I had to go get one. It was very helpful. It’s hard to pick one post out of a years worth and you have a great archive to explore!
Sommer – I am so glad that you shared that you too have a copper compost pail! I love that! AND that your getting one was influenced by my post . I did another list of favorite posts from the year and the copper compost pail was included because I swear folks thought I was selling them! I got calls !! Is that funny or what?
Karen, wow! That’s a fascinating bit of internet history – and also a fascinating post. (And unbelievable hamburger!)Thanks for joining in. Have a wonderful Christmas!
Thank you Joanna and may yours be ever so merry merry !
That’s a fascinating bit of internet history – and also a fascinating post.I did another list of favorite posts from the year and the copper compost pail was included because I swear folks thought I was selling them! I got calls !! Is that funny or what?
It’s amazing how things go viral on the internet. interesting post.
re: things going viral on the internet — I’d have to agree — love that you stopped by