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Enron Explorer: 40,000 visitors from 100 countries in two weeks
By Charles Armstrong | Monday, November 13th, 2006
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.
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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.
I spoke with FERC last year. I’m an Enron witness (2nd whistleblower – functioning on old Northern Natural Gas / church scandal from Omaha). Enron Explorer was taken offline to the “>shoo” responce. That’s what coming up on my computer anyways.
SDI and CIA / DEA lore tied to my dad’s work with “NSA”. How about listening to the ideas while putting this back up? Still looking into FOIA fraud or intentional negligence. Add, economy and transparency gives you and everybody else credibility for this rough market. People hedge bets when organizations like yours play turtle.
thanks,
Byron Johnson
“NSC-IG idea”
PS: I still have a custody matter which got lost in a miscarriage of justice in all this mess. pls help.