Yesterday’s tongue-in-cheek top 10 hit the big lists (digg and reddit). Traffic surged and the server held up well. It’s not our first tsunami, but it has easily been our largest. Some details:

• Digg count: 1400+
• Reddit points: 130+
• Total traffic: 45k reads (250k hits, 48 hours, 10x increase)
• Dreamhost ad clicks: 497 (100x increase)
• Google ad revenue: 100x increase
• RSS subscription increase: +1600 (3x increase)
• Comments: 50 local + 250 digg + 120 reddit (1000x increase)

I’ll post some graphs once today’s stats are in. Tracking Digg stats is getting old, so I’m going to work on some software instead.

So is it worth it to write inflammatory, tongue-in-cheek top10 style commentary? I think so: people were interested, and the debate was useful and entertaining. It seems that the format is a good way to summarize an experience with something, in a way that people get. And, it was fun.