Since then, I’ve received lots of positive and negative feedback on that article. Some people seem to think that I undersold my point, while others pointed to the fact that overall interest may be waning but interest amongst the most important groups was increasing.

However, as curiosity never rests around here, I decided to take it a step further and look at the same question over the course of a week and a month.

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