Internet traffic - like Michigan x-ways... SLOWWW!!

As I am sure most of you were - I found myself online investigating the news of Michael Jackson's passing last week. The immediacy of news medium today still amazes me and how quickly word travels around the world. Especially in the realm of IT security, we come across instances of system/network attacks (eg. DoS, etc.) where systems are brought to their "knees" but we don't really see un-intentional situations of this magnitude very often. This is mainly because of strategic monitoring, configuration, and load balancing performed by IT professionals. Yet, the Internet traffic spurred by this one news story can demand such resources that it causes major interruption and difficulties for large [technology based] companies such as AOL and Google - among others. Very interesting...

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/26/michael.jackson.internet/