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	Slashdot effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Slashdot effect is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic.
		Thus it is often renamed to The Digg effect or The Fark effect.
		The marriage proposal of Slashdot founder Rob Malda [5] and the announcement of Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4 source code leaks [6] were a couple of the more active stories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slashdot_effect (1066 words)

	Slashdot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slashdot's haphazard editorial style is cherished, if not admired, by some for its DIY ethic.
		Slashdot is notable in that its commenting system is much more robust than most blogs, with threading and user moderation having been introduced before these were commonplace in modern weblog packages.
		While Slashdot's core audience is often said to consist of Linux enthusiasts and various other enthusiasts of the open source software movement, there is a significant Windows audience as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slashdot (2343 words)

	Slashdot - Uncyclopedia
		Slashdot's primary export is journalistic integrity, and Slashdot has grown almost as rich as Oscar Wilde due to skyrocketing prices because of the global shortage, as well as the Federation of Planets and Third World Nations adopting integrity as its staple food.
		Slashdot's primary import is n00bz, which upon arrival into the country are sent to meat factories to be processed into spam, an all-purpose household paste, good for use as a duct tape, glue, glue solvent, dodgeball, koala, roofing material or low-end computer.
		Slashdot has attracted many critics in recent years, who say it has wooden acting, no real emotion, an incoherent and inconsistent plot that is full of holes (indeed, the Plot Hole at Loathing is one of the Fifteen Wonders of the World), and poor directing all around.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Slashdot (1490 words)

	Addendum to the Slashdot Effect Internet Paper
		After the Slashdot Effect paper was announced on /., a very large surge in hits was experienced by the server hosting the paper.
		effect due to other articles hosted by this server, was greater by a factor of 4 than any of the previous articles.
		Because of binning effects, the overlap regions of the data from one plot to the next look slightly different, and this dissimilarity should be ignored.
	ssadler.phy.bnl.gov /adler/SDE/SlashDotEffectAddendum.html (978 words)

	Slashdot - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Stuff that matters." Slashdot is often criticized for posting story summaries that are typographically incorrect, factually inaccurate, biased, or defamatory (stories often incite flamewars), while ignoring news or commentary on issues which outsiders may consider more serious or important (see Slashdot subculture).
		It is also infamous for the Slashdot effect, when thousands of Slashdot readers read an article and connect to the linked website, flooding it with unexpected traffic and at times bringing the site down in a manner similar to a Denial of Service attack.
		Officially, the name "Slashdot" was chosen to confuse those who tried to pronounce the URL of the site (h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Slashdot (1548 words)

	The Slashdot Effect, An Analysis of Three Internet Publications
		This effect is known as the spontaneous high hit rate upon a web server due to an announcement on a high volume news web site.
		Since the purpose of this paper is to show the Slashdot Effect and not to try and measure the number of readers of the papers, this scaling is not performed.
		Slashdot followed with an announcement of the article and a hyper link to the article at around 4pm.
	ssadler.phy.bnl.gov /adler/SDE/SlashDotEffect.html (1105 words)

	Urban Dictionary: slashdot
		Slashdot is somewhat famous for its irrelevant and highly opinionated comments from members.
		This has led to heated discussions as to whether or not Slashdot, is in fact, a viable democracy; however, thus far, it appears that the answer is for the most part "yes".
		Slashdot (/.) is a news site and forum for nerds and the tech community to read and discuss nerdy related material, usually the articles consist of information technology, open source software and science fiction or other nerdy and delightfully brainy topics.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=slashdot (585 words)

	The Slashdot Effect - Dynamoo.com
		Slashdot is so popular that sites often get an enormous amount of traffic as a result - called the Slashdot Effect - and this can often take a smaller sites offline, especially if they're graphically rich, in which case it becomes Slashdotted.
		On thing to notice is that this isn't a very smooth graph - Slashdot readers can be anywere in the world, and additional peaks can be seen due in part to time differences, but also because secondary referral sources then started to kick in.
		Three days after being featured on Slashdot, traffic levels were still more than double that of before, with 30% of traffic from Google, 5.5% from other search engines, 45% from referrals and 19.5% from bookmarks and type-ins.
	www.dynamoo.com /diary/slashdot-effect.htm (588 words)

	Digg vs. Slashdot (or, traffic vs. influence) (kottke.org)
		Slashdot is far from dying...the site still wields an enormous amount of influence.
		When a link is posted to Slashdot, not only do their readers see it, it's posted to other blogs (and from there to other blogs, etc.), forwarded around, etc. And those are well-established pathways.
		Slashdot's human editors post 25 stories a day suggested by individual readers while Digg might feature dozens of stories on the front page per day, collectively voted there by their readers.
	www.kottke.org /06/01/digg-vs-slashdot (1893 words)

	The Diminishing Slashdot Effect \| Threadwatch.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		BusinessWeek are running a piece on Slashdot's diminishing "slashdot effect" - citing analysts and site owners they're saying that a link from the grandfather tech site no longer means what it once did to the sites it links to.
		While their impact on the Web as a whole is still significant, the effect on individual sites or even particular stories is a lot less than it used to be.
		Slashdot appears to me to be a closed group.
	www.threadwatch.org /node/1699 (356 words)

	Slashdot FAQ - About Slashdot
		Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda.
		Slashdot is run primarily by me and by Jeff "Hemos" Bates, who posts stories and manages other sites for OSTG.
		Slashdot is successful for the same reasons anything else is. We provided something that was needed before anyone else did, and we worked (and continue to work) our butts off to make it as good as it could be.
	slashdot.org /faq/slashmeta.shtml (1468 words)

	C Book Download Story
		A Slashdot story generated approximately 10 times as many downloads of my book's pdf as the combined total number of downloads generated from all other stories and announcements posted prior to the Slashdot story appearing.
		In the case of Slashdot readers the average download was 6.6 MB (the average number of hits per Slashdot visitor was 2.3, ie., many visitors were still reading the first few pages before deciding to download the complete pdf; a much higher percentage of readers downloaded the complete pdf).
		Experience suggests that Slashdot readers are very familiar with the Slashdot effect and may try to limit the load on the primary site by selecting one of the available mirrors.
	www.knosof.co.uk /cbook/download.html (2621 words)

	Geek.com Feature - Slashdotted: Surviving The Slashdot Effect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I'd heard of the Slashdot Effect, and even defined it in our glossary long, long ago.
		I'm not sure of the exact reason for this, but I can speculate that Slashdot users either don't accept Flash at all (due to using Linux browsers to browse that may not support it), are blocking ads, or the greater traffic overwhelmed our ad server.
		Some publications are linked to regularly and often feel "the effect," but they are typically larger publications ready to handle the traffic load.
	www.geek.com /features/slashdot (1668 words)

	Slashdot Effect Weakening? - TechIMO Forums
		It's much easier for a slashdotting to account for a 30% jump in traffic for a small site as opposed to a 30% increase for a site that has a large readership.
		I find much more entertaining, pallatable, and trustworthy news from theinquirer.net and theregister.co.uk - Slashdot has its uses for digging up some quality reads, but for the amount of submissions many have made for very enjoyable material versus what makes it through their judges is shameful.
		The traffic surges incurred from Slashdot are murderous on several of their links, but others are stillborn news posts as their material is often boring or just senseless.
	www.techimo.com /forum/t137636.html (517 words)

	Techdirt: Is The Slashdot Effect Going Away?
		Ie not just looking within slashdot itself, consider how many people prefer to get their news from elsewhere: the idea of a techie news portal is no longer new, slash code and variations on themes thereof are taking off to dilute the user-base at source as well.
		Duplicated articles on slashdot are the key to the decline of the slashdot effect.
		Slashdot was the original, but there are many many sites now vying for attention that are in the same vein.
	techdirt.com /articles/20050302/0121243_F.shtml (1220 words)

	Slashdot Effect - a definition from Whatis.com
		The Slashdot Effect is the sudden, relatively temporary surge in traffic to a Web site that occurs when a high-traffic Web site or other source posts a story that refers visitors to another Web site.
		The effect is obviously much more noticeable on smaller sites and the surge in traffic sometimes will slow a site down or make it impossible to reach.
		Slashdot, the Web site, is named, according to Slashdot originator Jeff "Hemos" Bates, as "a play on how terrible it is to say domain names out loud." In this case: h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-o-r-g
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,289893,sid9_gci214064,00.html (214 words)

	Wired News: Solution for Slashdot Effect?
		Anyone who's ever had their website linked on the Slashdot homepage is no doubt aware of the so-called "Slashdot effect" -- the sudden, huge rush of traffic that follows such a posting, often resulting in overloaded servers.
		Now, Mirrordot, a new project from the founders of network security firm Edgeos, is seeking to alleviate the Slashdot effect by automatically mirroring any website linked on the Slashdot homepage.
		In addition, Slashdot is afraid that getting permission to cache sites would take too long and would cut down on the timeliness of the stories it posts.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,65165,00.html (873 words)

	d2r: the indirect slashdot effect
		And lo-and-behold, even though it's not on Slashdot, there is a new posting on slashdot about Rebecca Blood's book The Weblog Handbook and the entry is mainly about disparaging the weblog handbook.
		And one of the first replies to the Slashdot review is a link to the "bad review" of the book, which happens to contain the link to Plan B at the end.
		The "Slashdot effect" is always amazing to see in action...
	www.dynamicobjects.com /d2r/archives/001079.html (213 words)

	News in Science - Slashdot effect: has it claimed its first nation? - 04/07/2003
		Mitiepo said, however, at this stage most people in Niue are connected to the server by modem and are unable to access the WiFi as they do not have USB ports on their computers to support the capability.
		Rob Malda of Slashdot could not confirm whether or not the post on its site had led to an Internet failure in Niue, but said his site had been known to have such effects in the past.
		According to Anthony Willis of ABC Science Online, an experienced web developer who has cut code for some of Australia's largest sites, the 'Slashdot effect' is a well known phenomenon in the industry.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s894259.htm (623 words)

	The Slashdot Effect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The last case that Adler studied is probably the most drastic and significant to the Slashdot Effect.
		Slashdot followed Linux and posted the article at 4pm the same day and with in a 15 minute period hits on Slashdot went from 30 hits per minute to 250 hits per minute.
		In conclusion the slashdot effect is not only a way to measure the high hit rates that occur in news websites, but to reveal and demonstrate that news related websites are among the most visited in the net around the world.
	mason.gmu.edu /~lvera1/slashdot.html (569 words)

	TechDose.com: Slashdot Effect Prevention: Still Neccessary?
		The Slashdot Effect has generally affected smaller websites who are ill-prepared for a large amount of traffic.
		We know that during the Slashdot Effect, a site experiences an unprecedented amount of page requests and depending upon the internet connection & server hardware, it may not be able to process all of the requests in a timely fashion.
		In fact, with more technology-related sites and blogs being created each day, the effect of a Slashdotting is actually less today than previous years.
	www.techdose.com /articles/article.php?aid=4 (1022 words)

	Web Servers, Earthquakes, and the Slashdot Effect
		This is known in the jargon as the "Slashdot Effect", and has reduced many web servers to smoking piles of charred silicon.
		The Slashdot Effect was chronicled in a paper by Stephen Adler.
		In it, he discussed the Effect as seen by the servers at bnl.gov after some papers he wrote were linked from Slashdot.
	pasadena.wr.usgs.gov /office/stans/slashdot.html (2214 words)

	openchallenge :: The Slashdot Effect Analysed /. Analysis
		In a perhaps inevitable generation, the term is being used to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.
		This analysis is based on the data gathered after the story 'Donating Time To Goodwill Projects?' was published at the Slashdot.org site on 24th October 2002 around 13:30 GMT -05:00 (US East coast time).
		What I wanted to find out is: what is the slashdot effect really like and what are the visitors like.
	www.openchallenge.org /slashdot_effect.php?beef=1 (286 words)

	Sites that have been under the slashdot effect \| drupal.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Later it was not responding at all, but as the slashdot readers moved their attention on other sites, my site went up again and it is working now, but it still under heavy usage.
		It was these occasional Slashdottings that lead to my development of the throttle module to automatically disable some functionality when the server load was too busy.
		A link from Slashdot no longer slows the site down, even a fairly big one such as came with our interview with Richard Stallman posted in January of 2005 (794,609 hits transferring over 11 GB of data to 42,528 individuals viewing 317,436 pages).
	drupal.org /node/16738 (1603 words)

	Slashdot Effect on Holiday Lights
		For those that have not heard of the Slashdot Effect, it occurs when your web site is mentioned on the front page of a story on slashdot.org which is very popular since it is the "news for nerds" site.
		or a "smoldering pile of rubble" due due to the slashdot effect.
		Note that any heavily trafficked site can generate lotsa inbound traffic to your web server, so technically the "slashdot effect" is a generic term referring to this phenomena of a large increase in "flash" traffic, often times resulting in a (basically) Distributed Denial of Service.
	www.komar.org /faq/slashdot-effect (498 words)

	Slashdot Effect on 2004 Christmas Lights Webcam and Hoax Revealed
		Slashdot is the "News for Nerds" sites that has short articles with links for more info.
		Slashdot posts a dozen or so stories to the main page, so this story slowly scrolled down.
		For comparison purposes, the December 12th Slashdot posting, before the hoax, which had multiple links to various places on my web site generated 90,607 referrals in 24 hours from 55,168 unique IP addresses (unfortunately, the December 27th posting didn't link to my hoax page, so no data available there).
	www.komar.org /faq/slashdot-effect/2004-christmas (4269 words)

	ThinkGeek :: Slashdot Store
		For the 1/2 percent of you who don't know, Slashdot is a website where open discussions thrive about things that are really important to the inner nerd in you; things like technology, computers, privacy, open source, star wars and code.
		Home of the anonymous coward and the infamous 'slashdot effect', Slashdot is run by the unsightly gaggle of goons you see here.
		Slashdot has always been around whenever you've needed them.
	www.thinkgeek.com /interests/slashdot (274 words)

	Zeus - Solutions - Resilience - Slashdot effect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Slashdot is a news portal providing information for computer scientists, engineers and IT professionals.
		This is known colloquially as the 'Slashdot Effect'.
		In addition, you can quickly add a short TrafficScript™ directive that identifies visitors which have been referred by Slashdot and applies a bandwidth cap to their requests, preventing this group from consuming all the available bandwidth.
	www.zeus.com /solutions/resilience/slashdot_effect (385 words)

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