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The Web Braces For Inauguration Traffic
1sockchuck writes "Web sites and social networks are scaling up for huge traffic during today's Inauguration. Photo sharing sites are expecting a surge in volume around the noontime swearing-in, while Twitter has doubled its capacity. Some net watchers say peak volume may not match the record levels seen on Election Night 2008 (as reported by Akamai's Net Usage Index). As noted yesterday, DC-area wireless networks are the most likely bottleneck for messaging and photo sharing. "
It's pretty freaking cold! Lots of energy and excitement here in the crowd.
There are so many people here, it's hard to believe that this crowd is overshadowing the Million Man March as far as numbers of people goes.
I took a leak earlier. It was so cold, the urine stream was sublimating to steam before it hit the bottom.
I can't wait to see Obama on the dais!
As Obama is sworn in, I will swear out loud because I will lose teh intarwebs...
Victims of 9/11: <3000. Traffic in the US: >30,000/y
Whether you voted for the guy or not, one cannot deny the magnitude of Barack Obama's clinching of the U.S. Presidency. This past election has seen a level of participation from a large cross-section of our nation, showing America's concern for it's future, both home and abroad. While the tea leaves aren't revealing much about what the future holds, one can see that we have chosen to go down a different path than we have been going for the past eight years.
It will be interesting in Obama's freshman year to see the challenges that confront him, how he'll deal with them, and how the public will react. I think more than anything, Barack will have trouble living up to the image of a 'Cristo Negro de Esquipulas', as many look at him as a messiah of sorts for the nation. That aside, we have a unique moment in history in which we will be asked what it was like when the first African American president was inaugurated, to which we'll reply that it was both exciting and uncertain. Exciting because it seems that we have grown from our bigoted and biased past, but uncertain, not because he's black, but because of the economic and foreign calamities and troubles that have been layed before us.
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
CNN saying there are close to 2 million live in Washington. One of the biggest turn outs ever. You better believe web traffic is going to be busy!
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The president of the united states used to be sworn in on March 4 at Noon in Washington DC. This was changed by the 20th Amendment in order to cut down on the lame duck time that the president spent in office. If the president was sworn in during the month of June, we'd see more of a time where the executive branch of the government was essentially powerless.
Warning: Corny karma killing post above.
Ok, there will be pictures and videos that don't exist now but beyond that, what information does the actual inauguration add?
Does someone expect it to fail? Do you expect a magnicide? Someone to reveal breaking information about a miscount? What?
Do you think he'll do something unexpected? Dance? Sing?
Whatever people are going to say then, they can say right now. It's not an information adding event as the end of an election, or the result of an olympic competition.
Maybe I'm wrong and the president waits to inauguration day to really reveal his evil plans.
"MUWWAAHAHAAaaa. Gotcha! Not only I won't stop the war but I'm gonna invade 1d20* more countries! Yeah Baby!"
*: Indeed, the worst part would be discovering you're being presided by a D20 fanboy.
Miguel de Icaza posted a note this morning saying that after working with MS last night they now have a Moonlight add-on for 32/64-bit and PowerPC Firefox to stream the inauguration live from the official pic2009.org site. The install was quick, although the stream seems to stop and stutter frequently.
> During the next two hours, all of Bush's stuff is packed...
Bush has already moved out most of his stuff. It's not like he was expecting to stay.
> Then Obama's stuff is moved in and unpacked.
He's not renting an apartment. The White House is fully furnished. Obama gets to pick the furnishings for the private quarters from the White House collection (I'm sure he has already done this).
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