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 Tuesday, June 15, 2004
started 6/15/2004; 10:18:47 AM - last post 6/15/2004; 8:10:50 PM
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Doc Searls - Tuesday, June 15, 2004 
6/15/2004; 2:18:47 PM (reads: 24828, responses: 1)
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| | [Later...] I just added Foxy browser. When I wrote it, in the usual haste, I didn't realize that the Mozilla folks had released the new 0.9 version of Firefox today. I just found it and installed it. On three platforms, no less. All as part of my effort to move my digital butt into Laptop Linux. More about that at Linux Journal soon. |
About Weblogs.com
| | I'm being asked to comment on the shutdown of many weblogs.com blogs, which happened this weekend when Dave found he couldn't afford to continue hosting them. |
| | Dave explains the weblogs.com hosting situation in audio notes. If you care about this matter, I highly recommend listening to what he says. There is a difference between a human voice and a posted text, even a blogged one. What he says, basically, is that the situation we have now was one that showed up during the move of sites from Userland's to Dave's servers; and that the decision to close most of the free-hosted weblogs.com sites was unavoidable. "I just did the best that I could." |
| | I didn't find out about any of this until yesterday morning (though I noticed some blogs were down over the weekend). And I didn't hear Dave's audio notes until this morning (they were recorded last night). I haven't talked with Dave, though I have talked with folks at Userland (which Dave founded, but where he hasn't worked for the last two years), where my blog is now hosted. It's clear that everybody is trying to make things work, even though it's also clear that there has been a breakdown. |
| | If yours is one of the blogs that's now off the air, read Dave's suggestions and listen to his notes. You should be able to find a way to transfer your blog to another service. Also bear in mind that, on Dave's side of this thing, you're dealing with a person, rather than a business. |
| | That last point is a critical one that we shouldn't forget, no matter who we are or how we publish on the Web. I've said before that nobody owns anything on the Web. The fact is, we're all renters here. That means our sites, our blogs, our businesses, live in a commercial marketplace. Our Web presences live at the grace of the companies on which we depend. Companies change, and so do the people that comprise them. |
| | Small independent companies (and their customers) are especially vulnerable. But without them, we wouldn't have blogging at all — certainly not as we know it today. |
| | Independent and original technologists are even more important. As Marc Andreessen says, all technology trends start with technologists. And they're vulnerable too. Especially when they're working alone, or close to it. |
| | Thousands of us got a free ride from Dave, and Userland, over the past five years. What we got was far more than we didn't pay for. For many of us (certainly for me), the benefits have been incalculable. |
| | Let's keep that in mind as those of us involved try to make this transition over the next few weeks. |
| | If you're running a Manila hosting service and would like to adopt one or more of these sites, that would be great. If you can work with people to convert their sites to other formats, that would be great too. If you have an offer to help people with free weblogs.com sites, please send me a link and I'll pass it on. |
Norway in space
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lou josephs - Akami drops dns, creates major outage on the net
6/16/2004; 12:10:50 AM (reads: 717, responses: 0)
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