The Omaha World-Herald’s site, Omaha.com, crashed shortly after yesterday’s mall shooting. And as of this writing (Thursday at 11 a.m. PT), the site is loading intermittently. Ouch. Apparently the site crashed from 2:15 to 5 p.m. yesterday, and returned with a streamlined design (minus ads, video and non-essential features.) But it continues to load very slowly if at all. The paper said it was in the process of adding extra servers. A newpaper’s defining moment, and it’s failing to deliver on its primary platform — which I’m sure is a boon for the Omaha TV sites, like WOWT.com.

Adds Michael: KETV.com saw significant traffic, including a very large number of people live streaming our coverage. With both CNN and Drudge Report linking to our content, you can imagine the spike. It’s days like those that we can appreciate the reliability we have being on IB’s technical network.
Plus: LR reader Rob analyzes early online coverage of the shooting.


