September 26, 2003
How will smart mobs play out?
Business Week Online conducts a short newsmaker q&a with Howard Rheingold. How Will "Smart Mobs" Play Out? Tech trend-spotter Rheingold says these fluid, Net/cell-phone communities have still-unmet entrepreneurial promise
Hollywood celebs backing Dean
It's a little strange to go to your email in-box and see emails from well-known celebrities.
In this case, it wasn't a hoax. I've gotten emails in the past 24 hours (albeit mass mailings) from Martin Sheen and Rob Reiner, both asking for contributions to Howard Dean's campaign. (I've opted in to receive Dean mailings.)
I don't for a minute think that Sheen or Reiner composed their emails (it was undoubtedly a Dean staffer), but they did lend their names and support to the fund-raising effort.
Now let's see if Michael Moore comes out with a fund-raising email for Gen. Wesley Clark.
A move to TypePad is afoot
Last weekend I reported on the weird stuff happening with my MovableType archives. Whenever I rebuild my 7-month-old site, it adds 230 megabytes to my ISP's servers. This is a bit of a problem, because I'm allowed only 200 megabytes total for my website and my blog. And it's strange because I have created less than 4 megabytes of data on this blog.
It happened again yesterday when I rebuilt my site (which includes individual archiving). So for the second time this week, I maxed out my storage limit, and Dreamhost cut off my email. (It's still down.)
So this will be a tech-heavy weekend. I'll be moving my blog to TypePad, with a bit of a redesign, a new url, and all that jazz. And I'll be changing hosting services because I can't deal with the eight to 10-hour lag time of Dreamhost customer support (with no live chat and no phone support), even though I'm only halfway through a yearlong service agreement that I paid up front. Frustrating, to say the least.
Kynn Bartlett said:
Archiving took me a bit of understanding to figure out, but the basic thing is, you need to only have one type of archive -- and remove, from your configuration, the archives which are creating individual entries for each one.
Some people like individual entries -- I do -- but the scheme you describe is perfectly workable too (and gives better context to your posts). Plus it uses up less space.
If you need help figuring this out, drop me email (kynn@kynn.com) or give me a call (909 202 9872). I can step you through the MT configuration and it won't cost you anything. :) Or you can go to TypePad, of course -- nothing wrong with that idea, it's just not necessary for this.
--Kynn
JD said:
Thanks, I may call or email you tomorrow ... can't email right now because Dreamhost hasn't gotten to my request yet:
Time submitted: 7 hours 8 mins
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the head lemur said:
welcome to the internet! Rife with ''features'' that our ''customers'' are clamoring for.
Let me know how the MT -> TP conversion comes out.
espcially with your archived materials. BTW you will love the picture tools. Slick as goose shit.
Falling down
Salon: We were both professionals. Now I'm sweeping up popcorn, my husband is selling motorcycles, and our house is on the block. There are a lot of us these days.
