Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Tara and I were blabbing about how much article writing we need to be doing and thought we’d do an integrity day next Saturday to get ourselves on track. For those that have never done an integrity day, that means we meet on the phone every hour for several hours – checking in for a […]

In one of the highest profile instances of domain hijacking, con man Stephen Cohen stole the Sex.com domain out from under the original registrant. This case has taken forever to resolve – the domain was originally registered back in 1994 and Cohen forged transfer papers in 1995. The lawsuit was won in 2000 and Cohen […]

Mena and Ben have posted responses to the frustration over recent TypePad outages: Because of the growth of the service, we’ve been increasing our capacity steadily, but a few months ago the data center we are in ran out of space and power, limiting the amount of equipment we could add. After some shopping, we […]

Christian Mayaud takes a fine-toothed comb and a deep analysis of Technorati’s data. Gems: Oddly enough, if you search “Technorati Profileâ€? in Google but restrict it to the Technorati Domain, you get less than 700 and this hasn’t changed much recently. It suggests that less than 1000 bloggers have actually ever bothered to claim their […]

Real nice: When students post their faces, personal diaries and gossip on Web sites like Myspace.com and Xanga.com, it is not simply harmless teen fun, according to one Sussex County Catholic school principal. Effective immediately, and over student complaints, the teens were told to dismantle their Myspace.com accounts or similar sites with personal profiles and […]

I’ve had clients emailing me all yesterday and last night about TypePad’s recent slowing and eventual outages. And I’m sure they would say there haven’t been any outages because the boxes haven’t actually gone down – but when a server times out on the customer’s side it might as well be. I sympathize with server […]

Confused by your blog platform? Can’t remember where a certain feature is at? I created some blog cheatsheets that map out the interfaces of the popular blogging platforms: (in Adobe PDF format) Blogger Cheatsheet WordPress Cheatsheet TypePad Cheatsheet Movable Type Cheatsheet

(Cross-posted on Business Blog Consulting) The New York Times has an overview on a blogging phenom: brand blogs. Take Michael Marx, for example: "I’ve been drinking Barq’s for 15 years. It’s my beer," said Mr. Marx, who started his blog, thebarqsman.com, last year to collect news about Barq’s, commercials he likes for the drink and […]

From The Tattered Coat: A stop-lossed soldier angry that he is still serving in Iraq, seven months beyond his original enlistment agreement, Daniel is no longer free to post on his blog. Though he had taken care to adhere to the code of conduct to which he is bound, it is likely that a post […]

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