On 12:34 AM 9/16/02, Kurtis Lindqvist wrote:
Just like the net was one of the prime sources of information during 9-11.
From a network operations perspective, anyone who has not heard William LeFebvre's "CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis" has missed out. It talks about how the company that hosts cnn.com handled the crises and how it affected
The internet sucked as a means of getting information on 9/11. I spent about 20 minutes hitting every news site I could think of, and they had all tanked. I set an away msg on IM: "Internet news sucks, I'm going to watch CNN." I made it to the support center when the first tower fell. It took that long for someone to come tell me that all this stuff was going on, for me to give up on the internet and actually make it to a useful news source. When I finally did go back to my desk to work we turned on a radio that all of us could hear from our cube farm and tried to resume normal operations while keeping up to date. them from a network perspective. I've been unable to locate any decent transcripts/recordings of this talk, but I heard it at LISA 2001. Absolutely amazing presentation if you haven't seen it or heard it. William said they changed a lot of the way they do things at the company that hosts CNN.com since 9/11. I don't believe they were the only ones. Gerald