Has anyone seen statistics on Internet traffic on Sept. 11 and 12? If so, where? I noticed that the major news websites were really "slow" on Sept. 11. I also heard the CEO of Earthlink on NPR talk about huge spikes in traffic to his member sites. He also mentioned that e-mail use was down, and the use of synchronous chat was up. I'm teaching a CMC class and would love to talk about it in class.
At http://blogger.com apparently 22% more people posted to their blogs on sept 11 than on an average day. There's a post about it on the front page - scroll down to the appropriate date (11th or 12th) Don't know where to find more global statistics, but it'd be interesting. I couldn't reach CNN.com at all for the first few hours after 9 am NY time last Tuesday. Then they had a very barebones version for a good while - just text. Jill