I am ashamed to
admit it, but I track my blog's page hits pretty closely. Generally the numbers of hits is dependent on the recency of a post, and whether the post is serious or not. The number of readers on any given day is closely related to the amount of effort I have put into it in the last 24-72 hours.
But every once in a
while the numbers seem to jump, they double or triple out of nowhere
and then return to normal after a few days. And what are they
reading?
They are reading one
thing: my SIGGRAPH “Issues for Discussion” essay that I wrote two
years ago when I was late for SIGGRAPH but I was so frustrated with
the whole affair that I felt that I had to do something, so I wrote
that essay.
Now, a week or so
before SIGGRAPH, the statistics on readership on that essay have gone
through the roof. I wonder who is reading this? I wonder what they
think? They probably think that I am an impractical lunatic because
many of the issues are outside the normal agenda of an academic
conference of this type. And I guess that is right. But for us,
those of us who helped found the field, SIGGRAPH was always something
more than merely another academic conference. In this we may have
been deluding ourselves.
The essay was
written two years ago. I have a dozen other essays on related topics
but they do not get read as much.
I wonder who these
people are? Do they like it? Do they hate it?
I have no idea, they
are silent.
The essay in
question can be found here:
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