Well, I was writing it for Mashable. ;) In other words, I tried to make it interesting to a technical audience but still comprehensible to the average reader.

Well, I was writing it for Mashable. ;) In other words, I tried to make it interesting to a technical audience but still comprehensible to the average reader. I'm working on a more technical "how to get started with Node" post with code samples; that should be up in a couple weeks.