Mike Little’s Journalized

It looks like some of my email was down for a few hours this afternoon. If you sent anything to a zed1.com email address anytime in the last 9 or 10 hours it most probably went missing. Please send it again if it was important. If it was spam don’t bother
I think I will be moving my hosting in the next couple of weeks. This loss of email (and it appears nothing bounced, everything was lost) is the final straw. I’ve been very happy with my hosting for several years now, but recently things have gone down hill rapidly. The shared server is over shared, out of disk space, and the processes regularly grind to a halt. Customer service response time has to be measured in days at the moment.

Ars Technica forumgoers have voted for WordPress as the Web Application of the year!

WordPress is the most prominent rising star of weblog software, completely free and with a large and active community. Styles, plugins and hacks are readily available, with problems such as comment spamming being addressed far more rapidly than competing applications.

Congratulations to Matt, Ryan, and the team!

Founding member Larry Sanger has written a well considered article: Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism over at Kuro5hin. In it he explains why, as Wikipedia hits the big time, it has to address its perceived lack of credibility, and the dominance of difficult people and trolls. A couple of prominent articles last year brought the former problem into sharp relief.
He points to anti-elitism, or lack of respect for expertise as the root cause of the problems. I have to agree with his reasoning, and also his prediction that unless it is addressed that there will be a ‘fork’ of the project with the express purpose of producing a vetted version of the work with a tangible level of credibility.

Hat tip to Matt