Sleep And Water

This is awesome: a paper on “single serving sites”, on its own single serving site. The author is Ryan Greenberg, a student of Information Science at UC Berkeley. It’s a cool paper, written in a pleasant tone that takes you around to many oddities of the net, many of which I never knew about. Also interesting is his list of the 130 single serving sites that he used in writing his report. They’re not all YES/NO things – Umbrella Today makes his list, along with the original Hamster Dance.

Since I saw IsItTuesday pop up 6 days after I “launched” IsItChristmas, I’ve been watching all the sites that IIC inspired (and who in some cases just copy/pasted my source code), and there are many. I like to take a little credit for this leading to a paper, and that paper’s site following that model.

And as I am a proud man who enjoys pointing out his accomplishments to others, here is a chart, adapted from Ryan’s data, to back me up:

Single Serving Sites beginning with 'is', ordered by date of creation

2006–03-13 – islostarepeat.com
2007–06-08 – isparisinjailrightnow.com
2007–07-30 – isapplestoredown.com

2007–10-12 – isitchristmas.com

2007–10-18 – isittuesday.com
2007–11-15 – istwitterdown.com
2008–01-05 – isitaleapyear.com
2008–02-08 – isitaprilfools.com
2008–02-18 – isyournewbicycle.com
2008–02-24 – ishelveticathebestfont.info
2008–02-28 – isbarackobamamuslim.com
2008–03-04 – iskottkekottke.org
2008–05-23 – isbarackobamamuslin.com
2008–05-09 – isobamapresident.com
2008–06-27 – ismccainpresident.com
2008–10-07 – issarahpalinpresident.com
2008–10-07 – issarahpalinvicepresident.com
2008–10-07 – isjohnmccainpresident.com
2008–11-04 – ispalinpresident.com

#4 – not bad. There were 3 in front of me, and though I’d heard of each of them by the time I made IIC, you’ll have to take my word that none of them even crossed my mind in providing inspiration. Along with a coworker’s random exclamation, the only site that inspired me was WhatIsMyIP, a site I still occasionally make use of.

So there you have it: final proof of the inexpressible value of my birth, and my utter validity as a leader of men. Now I’m gonna go play video games.