Generally, the BBC would see viewing spikes around certain events that would interest a UK audience, and this doesn't appear to be any different with this year's Olympics: Tom Daley's diving events, Rebecca Adlington's medal win, and the cycling at the weekend, TechCrunch understands, have all been popular streams.
"I started off uploading celebrity-inspired make-up tutorials and my first views came from people who were hoping to recreate celebrity looks," says Burr, 25. "However, when I branched out into vlogging about more than just make-up, my views spiked".
Spending 12 hours a day maintaining his website, Dickson said his blog views spiked to a million hits last month, making him A$2,000 ($1,850) from web traffic in August.
As the responses illustrate, most people don't view a spike in demand as an acceptable excuse to raise prices.
At both CNN and Fox News, viewing levels spiked starting after 3 p.m., growing to over three million viewers for CNN and over four million for Fox News.
Initially, state and local park managers viewed the spike in visitor traffic as a boon.
We used a software window discriminator to view the spike train for each trial in the dataset and identify simple-spikes and CS responses.
It became a cause célèbre for many who viewed the spiking of the article as an affront to Silicon Valley's Fourth Estate.
I can only imagine how we looked from their point of view—hair spiked, with baggy jeans and Hot Topic T-shirts.
From a conceptual point of view, all spike-based and rate-based Hebbian learning rules share the feature that only variables that are locally available at the synapse can be used to change the synaptic weight.
