Virtual private server, shared hosting or dedicated what sort of web hosting do I need?
Really the question is how much are you paying now and how much can you afford to pay? Though generally speaking, for the most part, shared hosting is fine. If you need the more expensive options, you’ll know.
Dropping the landline redux
So we now have no landline. There’s a whole mess of places where I have to replace that phone number but never mind. It’ll happen in good time.
So we still have a land line
Apparently to turn your phone line into a dry loop, a technician has to actually come to your house. And do what I don’t know. It would have been great if someone like maybe Freenet, had told me that. I missed the date. I just thought it was a switch-over but apparently it was an appointment.
Has the world gotten wierder
…or is it just that the internet shows you all the wierd stuff?
Numbers or it didn’t happen: Mark Blevis on #TellVicEverything
Mark Blevis, mister podcast now digital public affairs specialist has some numbers on yesterday’s Twitterstorm/party around C-30, the Tories proposed legislation on “Lawful Access” to internet use data normally considered private. Hat tip to Erika Shaker.
So the world may be headed to heck in a handbasket
But I had so much fun with #TellVicEverything that I’m okay with it for now. Tomorrow, I’ll be right back at it working to lessen the stupid and increase the peace but I’m still chuckling over the fun Twitter had at the expense of someone who by all accounts deserves the ridicule he got.
The census is invasive, but warrant-less monitoring of internet use is not?
Is it me or do the Tories seem like they’re trying to suck and blow at the same time? Perhaps not, because of course the mandatory census is done as an issue. So now they can enact legislation that would require ISPs to install snoop ware and would allow police access to ISP subscriber information without a warrant.
So I’m doing this content inventory at work
I hit 400 pages today. I’m maybe 25 per cent of the way there. If I had my druthers I think about 380 of them would be kept near-line if not deleted. Of course I’m working my way through a part of the site that’s rife with disposable content. Namely bulletins about various rounds of bargaining.
So my friend Teresa Healy aka @FinnegansMum has a blog
Teresa is definitely one of the people who should be publishing a blog. And now, she has one. Courtesy of yours truly. Congratulations Teresa on your first couple of posts. I hope to read many more.
What does it mean to ‘scan’ web content?
Trying to use numbers to settle an argument today at work I found this (somewhat old) Jakob Nielsen column about how much reading most people actually do on the internet. The answer? Of the words you write, about 28 per cent on average get read.
Urgent action required: remember you are not your audience
I send and receive a fair number of appeals for online actions. And I see phrases like “Act now” or “Urgent! Your help needed” a lot and I admit if I ever have any control over it, I usually edit them out. Especially if they’re in the subject line or any other essential bit of the message.
Content inventory: what if it all just “went away”?
The flagship site at work – the one I’m mainly responsible for – needs a complete overhaul. Near as I can tell, it’s more than 3500 static pages composed mostly of little news nugget items about various rounds of bargaining between us and the various employers who sit across the table from us. But there’s other stuff too, hidden in the catacombs of landing pages and listing pages that litter the server.
Numbers or it didn’t happen: measuring the impact of a social media campaign
In my little corner of the social media participant universe we’re just digging into this issue as we pursue my employer’s first ever social media campaign. I can’t speak for where I currently work – I’m still too new – but at other organizations, the whole issue of campaign objectives and evaluation has always been a bit problematic.
Facebook cuts off blog feeds: making me feel sad
I must say for the near constant dribble of bad news about privacy, its galloping commercialism and all that I’ve always liked Facebook. It’s allowed me to reassemble and in some cases reconnect with the diaspora of people I’ve known over the years. So I haven’t minded being the product they sell to advertisers. Until now.
Social media: lessons from Chapstick
I am late to the party on this one, but I thought I’d flag it. The Globe writing on Facebook. Not usually where I go for info on social media but I’ll make an exception.
