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Friday, August 08, 2003
We've seen the Summer of the Shark, the Summer of the Teen Abductions, the Summer of the Movie Sequels.
Following close on the heels of the Spring of SARS, Summer 2003 is angling for the Summer of the freakin' Flash Mob. If anyone remembers it in a month, that is. It's impossible to find a publication or site that hasn't at least mentioned it, negatively or positively. Hard to find a major city that hasn't tried planning one. I make a couple of Boston Flash Mob entries and my site traffic jumps by a factor of 10. I get excerpted in the Phoenix this week, get contacted by the Sunday Times of London, get trolled by some flash-snobs, get ridiculed, get linked at sites I'll need to have translated, and my site load times slow to a crawl. I'm no Mob expert, just a guy who wanted to see one and write about the experience. When it comes to explaining the overwhelming interest of the mob-curious, I'm as clueless as any random tech-news-junkie. Further, and more significant, proof that people still can't get enough mob-related news: Die Puny Humans Died. Received via Bad Signal dispatch from acclaimed writer and D.P.H. webmaster Warren Ellis: Just FYI; www.diepunyhumans.com is fried. According to the data the host's auto-mail sent me, I've eaten 25 gigs of bandwidth within the last 24 hours, constituting over a million file requests. Their system's taken the site down, and their auto-responder is all I'm hearing from.Word of his moblogging (mobile phone blogging, for those not keeping up) of yesterday's first London Flash Mob spread so fast that it apparantly crippled his hosting company's webserver, and they shut him down. Twenty-four hours. One million requests. Wrap your brain around that one. Update : Received just now from Mr. Ellis, again via Bad Signal : The hosts took pity on me and switched the site back on. I win. God knows what the bandwidth penalty at the end of the month will be like, though...Go, have a look. Then buy one of his books to help defray the bandwidth costs you're helping build up.  |
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