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It's amazing what one well-placed link can lead to.
On 7 August 1998 my Giant Cows of Wisconsin page was selected as a USA Today Hot Site and subsequently one of their Potholes. I had sent email to the author a couple of weeks before about a broken link on his page. I added a link to that page and to the twine ball page as an afterthought. What could it hurt?
This led directly to over 600 hits on that page alone over three days.
Apparently a lot of people read USA Today Online, including other journalists.
In the middle of the week I received email from John Ochwat, author of the Ethernaut column in the Oklahoma City Oklahoman. I didn't get the email until after his deadline, but the story still turned out pretty nice. I believe it also appeared in the print (real) edition of the paper on 15 August 1998.
While skimming my 14 August 1998 access log I found a link from the Connected with Gina Smith site. This is the online contact point for a three-hour weekly radio program broadcast across the United States and Canada. I listened to the RealAudio broadcast of the show on 15 August 1998, and, sure enough, my page was mentioned near the end as the "Featured Bizarre Site". Her site has since gone away. Maybe her show has, too.
The audio feed messed up in the middle of this part of the show, of course.
Since then, I've found over a hundred web pages linking to the cows, all, I'm sure, filtering down from the single USA Today link.
Who knows where else my cows will turn up?
Pictures and text copyright ©1998 by Craig S. Thom unless otherwise noted.