Rick Klau’s action today in restoring Vincent’s Social Media Consortium blog got me putting things into perspective. We know sites like Blogger and Vox are free, but what happens when they fail? Vox, the Six Apart blogging service, had been where I had put my personal posts—as well as a bunch of private […]
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All it takes is finding the right bloke and hoping they would do the right thing. At the end of the day, that was the lesson in getting Vincent Wright’s Social Media Consortium blog restored. Yesterday, Josh Forde Tweeted me about an article he had read, where John Hempton’s Blogspot-hosted blog had been […]
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Fascinating, isn’t it? If you happen to have a Blogger blog that was wrongly deleted, and one of your readers is Felix Salmon of Reuter, then of course Google is going to come to your rescue within a day. (The link, and an important detail below, was found by Josh Forde and Tweeted to me […]
Is it any wonder Vox’s resources are taxed? Here’s a chap that does 3,265 posts in a month—all off-site spam. (I won’t give them the privilege of a link—no point raising their search engine rankings.) I vote that Vox has some form of alarm at HQ for people who blog too often. Twitter and […]
Spot the difference The Blogger blog (top) and this Wordpress one (above). It took quite a bit of time redoing the template for Wordpress, but I think we are there. There are some differences between this and the Blogger blog, but if there are any issues, please let me know in the comments. […]