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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Suck-tech

by Frank Paynter on January 17, 2007

For the last three weeks or more this blog has been rocky. Godaddy had server problems last month that they wouldn’t own up to until they had waltzed me through a bunch of trace route bullshit that had nothing to do with the cause of the spotty service and lengthy outage. Since then, connecting here has been hit or miss. Today it was so bad that a friend complained and I put in another problem call. Do a trace route, they said. I moved to another location behind a firewall and got an interesting error message that I shared with them instead of the trace route. Okay then, reconfigure your name servers, they said. So I entered the new name server names that they specified and settled down for a 48 hour wait while the new address propagates. But when this is done, if things ain’t just spiffy. Then I’m moving to a new host. Recommendations of reputable domain hosting services for WordPress blogs gladly accepted in the comments.

Thanks.

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Nonpartisan

by Frank Paynter on January 17, 2007

David Weinberger asks: “Why is it that these tools for a better democracy are coming from the left? Or are there similar tools developed by the right that I don’t know about?”

At the NCMR2007 (the great majority of which is now available online) I was puzzled by the same thing. It seems paradoxical. The Free Press held a nonpartisan gathering that provided an opening for understanding how media work today and alternatives for re-shaping our media. The conference really was nonpartisan, and yet the attendees were largely “progressives.” Wouldn’t you think that a nonpartisan event would draw participants from across the entire political spectrum?

Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications.

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