Wired Wonders If the Internet Can Handle Aggregator Traffic
Apparently news readers going out and skimming the Web could cause congestion.
“News aggregators may be the best new tools to appear on the Web since the browser, but as the programs and the underlying RSS standard grow more popular, some question whether the Internet will be able to handle the traffic.”
Seen on Garrett’s Rowland Institute Library blog
I wondered how my hits almost reached 5,000 (another record for me) on Friday. I don’t have that many readers and my referer traffic was about average. (That’s kind of a joke. It wasn’t aggregator traffic either. This blog probably got spidered, but at weird times for a spider.)
