Hey, maybe 2004 is the year SciScoop will hit the big(ger) time! Sylvia’s lunar Helium-3 story got mentioned on a front-page Slashdot article (and the mention was by Slashdot editor Timothy, no less!) and since then we’ve been getting about a thousand hits per hour for a total of about 5000 extra visits in the day than we normally get. The Slashdot story now has 400+ comments – but Timothy had to be over here reading our comments first before he front-paged a Slashdot version of the He3 story to start their comment threads. That’s a Good Thing.

Update [2004-1-22 7:14:30 by rickyjames]: For the record, 10,300+ page hits Wed. and 7500+ Thurs. instead of our usual 2500-3000. Slashdotting is an amazing force of nature. So is Google News.