3 deaths in one day that have the US talking & the internet straining at the seams:
The death of Farrah Fawcett
The death of Sanford's political career, dignity, & possibly his marriage
The death of Michael Jackson
There were so many searches for "Michael Jackson" on the internet last night between 5 & 7pm that Google's security systems thought they were being hit with a denial of service attack & activated the "capcha" feature. The News section of Google also thought they were having a DOS attack as well.
Perez Hilton screwed up yet again this week when he blogged that he doubted that Jackson had gone into cardiac arrest & speculated that Jackson was pulling a stunt. He told readers to ask for their ticket money back. Very nice, right on the heels of the whole Much Music award night debacle (I'm not eve going there--look it up)
When the news that Jackson had died was confirmed, the ill-timed respons on Hilton's blog was deleted--but not before he was showered with criticism by his readers. I wonder if this is the start of the end of his 15 minutes?
Twitter saw a doubled rate of twits for about 2 hours after the news of Jackson's death started spreading.
Information overload.
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