When we launched Enron Explorer a few days before Jeffrey Skilling’s sentencing we hoped it might capture people’s interest and give them a way to dig below the headlines. The response has been fantastic. 20,000 people visited the site in the first forty-eight hours following Skilling’s sentencing. After this initial peak people kept on coming, reaching a total of 40,000 visitors over the first two weeks from 100 countries around the world. People have done some great detective work too, judging by the skulduggery and scandals highlighted on the comments page.

Naturally we’re all delighted; particularly since the system kept on running smoothly under this battering, which included being BoingBoinged and hitting the front page of Digg.