{"id":4647,"date":"2009-08-07T22:52:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T03:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2009-08-07T22:52:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T03:52:33","slug":"five-things-i-did-during-the-great-crash-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/five-things-i-did-during-the-great-crash-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things I did during the Great Crash of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when I suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/techno\/going-dar\/\">earlier this week<\/a> that perhaps we should all have a dark day from time to time I didn&#8217;t mean for <a href=\"http:\/\/status.twitter.com\/post\/157191978\/ongoing-denial-of-service-attack\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/status.twitter.com\/post\/157979213\/restoring-api-and-sms\">to take it<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/status.twitter.com\/post\/158068859\/problems-with-updating-from-firefox-3-5\">personally<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/08\/07\/twitter-comment-on-ddos-attack\/\">especially<\/a> not during the work week.<\/p>\n<p>Could have done without their servers (and Facebook and Friendfeed) crashing yesterday &#8212; but looks like we survived.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Found out about new blog posts via old fashioned RSS &#8212; instead of everyone&#8217;s Twitter updates<\/li>\n<li>Forwarded emails with &#8220;RT @username&#8221; in the subject line<\/li>\n<li>Posted a status update directly on Facebook for a change <\/li>\n<li>Pasted a picture of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter#Outages\">Fail Whale<\/a> on my computer monitor hoping to cover up the dreaded <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTTP_404\">404 error messages<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sent txt messages to all my friends telling them &#8220;I&#8217;m eating quesadillas for #lunch&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What did you do during the social media crash of 2009?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woot.com\/Blog\/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=8927\">Woot.com did<\/a>&#8230; (and there list is far better than mine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when I suggested earlier this week that perhaps we should all have a dark day from time to time I didn&#8217;t mean for Twitter to take it personally &#8211; especially not during the work week. Could have done without their servers (and Facebook and Friendfeed) crashing yesterday &#8212; but looks like we survived. 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