Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Inauguration streaming

I ended up missing most of Joe Biden's oath because the ustream coverage was so disrupted. Of course, when I tried switching to CNN/ facebook or CBS, I was supposed to wait for their ads to run before I could see the live feed. In the middle of the inauguration? boooooo. I gave up and went with kqed audio. I would love to know if anyone had better luck. 


6:32
according to the AP, I was definitely not the only one!
*Inauguration video draws record crowds online*
"Not all Web sites were able to keep up with the flood of traffic: CNN.com had to place some viewers on a "wait list" for a while before they could view the live stream. The Associated Press had issues as well — from a bit after noon until shortly before 1 p.m., new viewers could not access its video streams on various Web sites. Akamai streams video for both companies.

The huge number of video viewers appears to have slowed the Internet as a whole. Keynote Systems Inc., which tracks Web site performance, said the Internet's top 40 sites slowed by as much as 60 percent when the ceremony started at 11 a.m., and many news sites saw even sharper declines in performance. NPR.org was almost completely unavailable around noon."

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