After much thumb-twiddling and general time-wasting at my new job, I was called into duty last week just days before I was to head off to the warmer climes for a few days of spring training baseball (more on this coming soon). The result of a couple of full-day-late-night-early-morning shifts is CNN’s delegate counter game which launched sometime late on Monday or early on Tuesday morning of this week. It allows you to speculate on how the democratic race for the nomination is effected by different outcomes in each of the remaining primary states. I was not at work on Monday or Tuesday, but while at home on Tuesday I was floored early in the morning to see the thing being used live on the CNN TV broadcast. As I am a TV virgin this was a total thrill to me. In addition, when I checked the traffic numbers we have had to the game so far, we are nearing one million visits. Considering that most of my projects at the AJC were lucky if they received traffic in totaling 5 digits, this is a much bigger stage. So, check it out and make it one million one visitors.
Addendum: So I don’t try to toot my own horn too much, but I haven’t been feeling as naturally full of myself since starting the new gig, so I will use the blog here to inflate my ego.
When I arrived at work yesterday, the second in command for CNN.com had left a thank you card and a $50 gift card to Ted’s Montana Grill on my desk. That’s 4 delicious bison burgers if my math is correct. Now my gut can expand as my head does.
Also, a co-worker who worked with me on the project did a little googling to see what was coming up in the blogosphere about the the game. Here are some links:
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