The Cydonian's Journal: The Slashdot Effect reported in Reuters!

Attached to a fluff on Microsoft-versus-MikeRoweSoft:-

But the high school student decided to fight back and his story got media attention to the extent that he was forced to shut down his Web site on Monday morning after getting about 250,000 hits. He managed to get the site back up after moving to a service provider with greater capacity.

Apparently the kid has been featured on lesser known news sources as well.