Database Downtime
Apologies to those who were inconvenienced by the database being down today (Sept 22), we resolved the issue shortly after being notified. The automated scripts we use to track and monitor uptime of the site were reporting that all systems were good to go. We have a programmer looking into changing those scripts so that [...]
MediaTemple GS Customers Beware Site Down for 23 hours
UPDATE May 20th, 2008: this has been resolved completely. A new post has been made. See: MediaTemple GS update. We currently have sites hosted on 4 different companies Mosso Shared Cluster, Hostgator Shared Server, GoDaddy Shared Server and MediaTemple Grid Server. We have been looking to put everything together in one place, but just have [...]
Firewall Script – do you need one?
Ad: Do you use a shared hosting account? Are you running a website powered by a script that you can’t change – like one that is ioncube encoded? Concerned about malicious scripts being run from your server? Losing sleep over your site being hacked or broken into? I’ve been running websites on various servers for [...]
Writers’ Strike, Internet, May Remake Hollywood
Imagine a return to moviemaking where storytelling as a craft mattered most, and a writer with a dream and some financial backing could do what once required a studio to accomplish.Movie production and distribution making a sea change to the Internet won’t be as simple to pull off as it has with music. Radiohead, Nine [...]
New Gmail Promises Quicker Service
Google’s Analyst Day featured a discussion of an update to the Gmail service, with some tweaks to make it more responsive and useful.Many Gmail users have decided to find improvements to the service without waiting for Google to roll them out. The ‘Better Gmail’ extension for Firefox, featured on Lifehacker, rolled in a number of [...]
Podcast Expo: Capturing An Audience
Podcasts can be cool, but “cool” isn’t necessarily enough to attract new customers or increase your profits. So Eric Schwartzman, iPressroom’s founder and chairman, gave relevant advice in a session called “Attracting/Growing Your Audience.” WebProNews has been covering the Podcast and New Media Expo taking place in Ontario, California. You can catch our conference interviews [...]
Search Update Rolling At Yahoo
The latest ‘weather report’ from Yahoo Search said an ongoing update should wrap up very soon.Priyank Garg noted at the Yahoo Search blog the present update taking place. Webmasters will want to keep an eye on this, and see if their rankings have changed. Garg also reminded everyone this update would be the first to [...]
Jobs Gives In…A Little
Even though Apple CEO originally told the iPhone faithful – the ones that stood in line even though they didn’t need to – tough titty about this week’s $200 price drop just two months after launch, it looks like he’s throwing them a bone, er, a coupon. "I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone [...]
MySpace, Virgin Comics Partner
Virgin Comics and MySpace have partnered to launch Coalition Comix, an online comic book platform that will allow users to work with comic book creators in developing and creating characters and stories. Coalition Comix will commission some of the comic book industry’s creators to work with users as virtual "Story Masters." Creators will guide participants [...]
Comment Spam on The Blog Deleted
By ArticleSnatch on May 8, 2008
I’m not sure about other bloggers out there, but we seem to get our fair share of comment spam. Sure WP-SpamFree catches several hundred per day from automated bots and scripts, which is pretty cool. I’m glad that they started tracking it and showing me the number of blocked messages in the dashboard – it [...]
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