stream of consciousness

Not new but numbers geeks like me might enjoy them in the same place

* AOL's Live 8 coverage (summer '05) had 175K simultaneous video streams at its peak.
* NCAA's March Madness (2006) had 268K simultaneous video streams on the 1st day alone. It garnered 19M total streams throughout the entire tournament.
* The granddaddy of simul-streaming is Yahoo's coverage of the Discovery shuttle launch (July '05) with 335K simultaneous streams. Has there been a new record yet?


Bob Iger of Disney reported ABC.com streamed out 11M servings in the 1st 29 days of it's launch. Then DisneyChannel.com launched on June 2 and reported 11.4M streams during it's first weekend.

Does this mean that at least some "Massive Passives" are joining the "Kool Kids" & "Gadgetiers" in exploring online video, or is that still too early to tell.

Note1: These numbers were reported elsewhere (ie PaidContent & others).
Note2: My friend at IBM co-authored a white paper where the terms "Massive Passives", "Kool Kids" & "Gadgetiers" came from.