New Yorker digs into California's medical marijuana industry
— from growers to brokers to dispensaries to clients via Delicious #Rush plays "Tom Sawyer" on Rock Band
— they failed the Expert level one-third through the song via Delicious #The Onion interviews Mike Patton on videogames
— he discusses Rock Band, Portal, Bionic Commando, and voicing the monsters in I Am Legend #Amir's Super Mega Burn
— anonymity can turn anyone, even superfans, into superjerks in no time flat via Andre Torrez #The Onion's Random Roles with Teri Garr
— like Random Rules, this format teases out insights and anecdotes from interview subjects #Friendfeed and Flickr
How often is Friendfeed hitting Flickr, and how many Friendfeed users are on Flickr?
We now have a glimpse into Monday’s traffic, thanks to a snapshot provided by Kellan and Rabble’s in their talk, Beyond Rest: Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub, presented earlier today at OSCON in Portland:
On July 21, 2008, Friendfeed hit Flickr 2.9 million times to get the latest photos of 45,754 users, of which 6,721 visited Flickr in that 24-hour period, and could have potentially uploaded a photo.
Three million requests for 6,000 updates. Clearly, polling isn’t ideal. Don’t miss the rest of the slides.
(Also, at its peak, Flickr is currently receiving 60 uploaded photos a second, “roughly 10 times the number of people born on Earth per second.”)