This morning, I like many others, am trying to follow the Apple announcements which are being covered by some of the bigger blog networks. As of 10:31am, I am unable to get reliable connections to:

Engadget — “Connection timed out”

Gizmodo — “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”

The Unofficial Apple Weblog — Alternates between slow connection and timing out

Even Valleywag is down at this point.

I think live-blogging is a good thing but is the software being used to run these sites designed for this type of abuse. Would it make sense to setup a low-res blog on a subdomain for just this purpose, maybe using a static html output?

Hopefully someone else follows this and gets it right for the Christmas shopping season. Im sure more announcements will come then.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 10:38 am and is filed under Blog tools, Blogging.