One of the humbling things about doing politics on these here world-wide interwebs is that occasionally, in unexpected ways, you get reminded that your record-breaking traffic is somebody else’s rounding error. Jon Fleischman’s FlashReport.org is essential daily reading for countless mavens of California politics — and by "countless," I mean "many times fewer than the number of people shopping the long tail of dead-celebrity jpegs." Last night around 7pm I started to get a flurry of emails from FlashReport readers — they couldn’t get onto the website! I tried it out myself and, sure enough, it was slow as molasses…. [The] site had ground to a virtual standstill because of a massive volume of traffic coming to the site. I thought this to be a little odd, for a Thursday night..
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When Michael Stops Sneezing, California Gets A Cold
