Yesterday was an exciting day in the barn. The Build Your Own President interactive feature launched yesterday, and we had the pleasure of watching our bandwidth nudge upwards as people circulated it on Facebook and Twitter. Traffic was heavier than usual, which is what we had hoped for. But then, all hell broke loose. Suddenly, bandwidth shot to 100 times its normal levels. We did a quick Google search and found the culprit: BoingBoing.net had posted about the feature.

Not only was BoingBoing saying nice things about our work, but the author of the post was none other than Cory Doctorow, author/activist/sometimes superhero who is the author of Makers, the book we were hired to illustrate in what grew into the Makers Tile Game.

If you want to play the Makers Tile Game online, click here (this link won’t work on iPhones or iPads).

To give you a sense of the awesome power of BoingBoing, here is our blog traffic over the past 24 hours.

It does not take a statistician to note that something out of the ordinary happened yesterday morning.

And here is the traffic for the week.

This morning’s traffic is still booming compared to normal standards, though a far cry from the Himalayan heights of yesterday. We are enjoying the ongoing string of Twitter traffic, highlighted by tweets from Ben Stone (formerly of Politico, now of BuzzFeed) and Guy Kawasaki (Former chief evangelist of Apple who happens to have 469,560 followers).

Robbi and I accomplished almost nothing yesterday but nonetheless felt exhausted by all of the excitement.

Thank you, Cory Doctorow and BoingBoing for the kind words and good ink. Thanks to all of our friends who posted on your Facebook walls and Tweeted the feature. We so appreciate the support.

For now, we return to our desks. There are new books to work on. Up next: part three of our baby series.