Blogging About Blogging XXXIV
Being featured on Slashdot or Metafilter can send your traffic through the roof. As can being featured prominently in Blogdex.

Around 7 p.m. last night, one Joe Szilagyi in Connecticut noticed that his site had basically "taken over" the second page of Blogdex. It seems that if you combine several domain names tracked by Blogdex -- parking them all in a new domain -- you can accidentally break Blogdex.

Cameron has yet to tweak the system, but needless to say, Mr. Sizzle might need to put in a whole new roof.