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Well, readers, the Social Media Consortium blog (the one that came back a few days ago) has disappeared again. Rick Klau, please help … (An email has been written to Mr Klau. Hopefully, he’s at work this weekend or is checking his messages.) PS.: Less than five minutes later, Rick replied, and is looking […]
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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 […]
Read More… from As the 2010s dawn, there’s a vacuum on the internet
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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I wanted to add a comment to the Reuter post from Felix Salmon (see previous blog post), and, as always, I read the small print. The Thomson Reuters terms and conditions have this, inter alia: If you have agreed to such contact, the Reuters Group may contact you about those of its other services […]
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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 […]
The Fairfax Press has been talking about how Wellingtonians are expected to bail out some loss-makers, such as the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. And that the decision to do this has been made behind closed doors. The city’s debt is over $200 million—we were looking at very similar numbers at the time of the 2007 local […]
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Tim Cottingham of the Aston Martin Heritage Trust kindly gave me permission to use one of his photographs on Autocade, for a very rare Aston. The 1972 Vantage was a six-cylinder model, of which only 70 were made. The Autocade entry gives a credit to Tim, and we can begin tracing the lineage of some […]
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. […]