Advertisement |
Lazor said the mention of Obama's Zune did not come until the fourth paragraph of the story but a tech blogger spotted the story "and it kind of exploded from there." He said the sudden surge of traffic to citypaper.net from tech enthusiasts caused the Web site to crash.
"We didn't anticipate this kind of attention," Lazor said.
An Obama spokeswoman said after the story broke that the president-elect usually uses an iPod and she did not know where the Zune he was seen with came from.