Well, I found you through this Metafilter comment about being stalked at work.

Ah, that looks like the reason, thanks.

Note those accusations are by a domain-hijacker who should have no credibility.

Good lord, what an ugly piece of work that Michael Sims is. I looked up his name in combination with slashdot, and he must be universally despised to draw such reactions from so many people.

So how much extra traffic did you get?

And how does it compare to the traffic you'd get if you were linked to by an A-lister?

Shelley: Unfortunately, for too long it was apparently universally minus one person, except that one person was co-founder of Slashdot, so counted more than the rest of the relevant universe put together :-( :-( :-(.

Daran: It wasn't server-crashing levels, rather many dozens. It triggered attention because it was a big spike for one *referred* URL, which usually indicates some sort of spam-attack, but this time the URL was searches on my name. Remember, I said *search* traffic, not *server* traffic.
Depends on the A-lister. Some (e.g. Rosen or Searls or Weinberger) don't send huge amounts of raw traffic, but the readers they do send can make up in quality what they lack in quantity.

Update - Now the attacks are being credulously publicized, and there's no way I'll ever be able to counter them with the the real story. Even a he said/she said framing hurts me, since it spreads the smears, and Sims has nothing to lose (whatever malicious damage he can do to my reputation has no cost to him).
I probably made a mistake by staying out of the MetaFilter thread, I should know better, relying on truth-will-out simply does not work :-(.