Some in the blogosphere are calling for the boycott of technorati after Edelman and Technorati have tied such a close relationship. Edelman is the PR company that has done work in specifically in the blogosphere with Walmart and has been engrained in a scandle about transparency.

Yet Technorati has never come out and said why they tied the knot so closely and what that means for bloggers. Does Technorati pass the data on to corporate interests.

Which I’m sure is a possibility. You be the judge.

Originally posted on November 30, 2006 @ 10:16 am

It must be one heck of an outage if you can knock out that grid. Kinda scary to think about what it takes to take the whole shebang offline. Will be interesting to watch the damage control and the bounceback. Although I’m sure its an upgrade from most shared hosting servers.

Customers of MediaTemple’s GridServer, which received widespread attention upon its debut last month, experienced significant downtime Tuesday. GridServer is among the many cluster-based grid hosting services, offering the promise of enterprise-level reliability and scalability in an affordable web hosting plan.

GridServer got a big boost when its launch was featured on TechCrunch, a leading technology blog. On Tuesday, bloggers who were among the early adopters to GridServer were airing their grievances as their sites were slowed by performance problems. MediaTemple provided regular updates on its efforts to stabilize the system, citing bugs in a third-party storage system as the cause for the outages and sluggishness. The performance problems began at 10 a.m. Pacific time and continued past 5 p.m. for some customers.

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Originally posted on November 29, 2006 @ 9:20 pm

The Huffington Post will be bringing on a former Newsweek staffer to cover hot political topics and the upcoming 2008 Presidential Election. Big news as new media continues growing and competing with mainstream media.

I’m just waiting for HP to launch a video blog to compete with the nightly news.

The Huffington Post, which started about 18 months ago as a political Web site for celebrity bloggers, is preparing to venture into original reporting, with plans to cover Congress and, already, the 2008 presidential campaign.

Arianna Huffington, who started HuffingtonPost.com, said yesterday that the site had hired Melinda Henneberger, a print journalist most recently with Newsweek magazine, as its political editor. The site has about 2.3 million unique visitors a month, making it one of the more popular blog sites.

Via NY Times

Originally posted on November 30, 2006 @ 9:02 am