[BR-Crater] in the firehose firing line again

[Ian Kluft]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:07:11PM -0800, Ian Kluft wrote:
> There was a big jump in traffic for the crater page when it got listed
> on stumbleupon.com a few days ago.  That seems to have triggered a new
> surge of activity... but only at night.
> 
> Now I see in the logs that we're in the Slashdot firehose queue again.
> A user, Scot Wilcoxon, wrote a journal entry and submitted it for the
> front page.  Fortunately he was courteous and sent me a heads-up note
> about it too.  (Just like Brian did with the previous one.)  You can
> see his journal entry at
>    http://slashdot.org/~SEWilco/journal/165714

Well, it looks like Slashdot expired it from the queue after 24 hours just
like last time.

I was watching its position wondering if I should rush to make a lower
bandwidth version of the page. :-)  It's something I'll have to do
sooner or later.

Oh well.  Feel free to join the discussion on IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
in #br-crater on freenode.net.  One of the comments last time around
seems to apply again... "slashdotters just don't know good science even
when it pokes them in the eye."

Thanks to Scot for the well-written journal entry about the page.