Just happened upon this old post in my archive:
I assume that happened back when Bluehost.com was unable to protect me from those vandals. The current host, WordPress.com, is never hacked.
Category: blogs
my gymnastics site is down, again
The company that hosts GymnasticsCoaching.com is down.
That company is Bluehost.
Hundreds of thousands of sites they host. Even their own site.
… How are they going to blame it on me this time?
awkward family photos
I hadn’t visited this most hilarious website in a while.
What a great time waster.
what will replace newspapers?
Newspapers are dying more slowly than I anticipated.
… On the other hand, my journalist friend Tom Mangan just took severance from the San Jose Mercury News. He’s moving out of California to look for a new job.
Papers funded their news rooms with revenue from classified ads?
No wonder that model is failing. That disconnect was stupid in the first place.
People should pay news reporters for news.
I’ve never had any worries about what will replace newspapers. If there is a market for news, entrepreneurs will fill that demand.
A good example is Politico:
In 2006
… John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei left The Washington Post to become Politico’s editor-in-chief and executive editor, respectively. …
Why would they leave that esteemed newspaper?
… The Politico is an American political journalism organization based in Arlington, Virginia, that distributes its content via television, the Internet, newspaper, and radio. Its coverage includes Congress, Washington lobbying, and the 2008 presidential election. It was a sponsor of the 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on May 3, 2007, and the 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidates debate at the Kodak Theater on January 31, 2008. …
Oh, so they could report on politics the way they wanted. Here’s their Mission.
… A 2009 profile of the organization in Vanity Fair said Politico had an editorial staff of 75 and a total staff of 100. Its circulation is around 32,000 and as of summer 2009 its web traffic was around 6.7 million unique visitors per month. This is less than the 11 million it had during the high point of the campaign, but most political news outlets have lower traffic outside election years. As of July it was expected to have annual revenue of around $15 million, primarily from the printed product, enough for the publication not to lose money. …
A sample page:
The Huffington Post is another success story, though much different than Politico. Established only in 2005 it’s already the most linked to blog anywhere. Attracts big name celebrities, academics and policy experts as guest bloggers.
And has no problem finding new investors.
no one reads your stupid tweets
Kate has a hilarious post mocking me and the rest of the social not-workers …
O brave new world, that has such bloggers in it
No need to click through. Kate’s point, if she has a point, is that people are busy producing digital content … that nobody ever sees.
Ha.
Are you twittering today with your Me-Myself-and-iPhone?
best use for twitter: SEARCH
Even if you don’t have a twitter account, it can be useful as a real time search engine.
The results are much different … and far more up-to-date … than Google.
How Twitter Search creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends.
CLICK play or watch the short explanation on YouTube.
I have several twitter accounts:
hiking – besthike
gymnastics – GymCoaching
me – McCharles
They would be difficult to manage without a twitter client. I use Seesmic Desktop.
new header for Rockin’s podcast page
I helped Ron post a new header on his Barbecue Secrets podcast blog.
Ron and Kate are in Calgary right now. He’s on the book flogging tour.
His latest cookbook — Barbecue Secrets DELUXE! — is the #1 cookbook in B.C. right now.
how do you CONNECT with people?
One of the best articles I’ve seen lately was published on a blog about “greatness” called Baekdal.com.
It gives an overview of the history and rapid evolution of information technology.
Here’s a sample slice from where we’re at right now.
People get information from TV, websites, blogs and social network sites. Oh, and the old people still cling to newspapers and magazines.
… But 2009 is also going to be the start of the next revolution. Because everything we know is about to change. …
The first and most dramatic change is the concept of Social News. Social news is quickly taking over our need for staying up-to-date with what goes on in the world. News is no longer being reported by journalists, now it comes from everyone. And it is being reported directly from the source to you – bypassing the traditional media channels.
I highly recommend you check out Baekdal – Where is Everyone?
I think the graphic is wrong, by the way.
Social News (e.g. Twitter) is not nearly as much the NEXT BIG THING as is shown above.
Some future evolution of Facebook or Friendfeed is the best way to CONNECT with people that’s been invented so far. Twitter is already a subset of those two vastly superior systems now.
(via bluepeak)
print friendly internet
I just added a feature to the right hand navigation.
In Firefox on my Mac, it doesn’t seem to work.
Safari on my Mac works a little better. But not perfectly.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The company noted my problem. And is working on a FIX. Thanks. I’ll wait on that.
UPDATE – Looks like it does not yet work on WordPress.com sites like this one. I took it out for now.
Rick McCharles 