Syd Barrett Rising
By:
February 17, 2011
In January 2010, HILOBROW’s Patrick Cates published a HiLo Hero item about ex-Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett. The item received 128 hits that day, then faded away, traffic-wise, into obscurity. Nothing unusual, there.
But then, in late July, the item started getting more traffic — about 25-50 hits per day. And the traffic has continued to swell: in August, the item reached #8 on HiLoBrow’s top-10-most-visited chart, in September #9, in October #8, and in November #9. In December Syd fell off the top-10, but then in January 2011 — a year after we first published the item, and perhaps not coincidentally the month of Barrett’s birthday — it reached the #6 spot on our monthly top-10 chart.
What’s going on? We’ve heard about the long tail effect, of course — but this particular tail is getting bushier by the month. This diamond is shining on ever more crazily. And other metaphors. Any idea, readers, why this is happening?
Maybe the new book coming out in march
http://barrettbook.com/the-editions/
Syd has possessed all of us…he is controlling our mouses!!!!!!!