DNS and Server update – I’m still dealing with Network Solutions headaches and trying to transfer joemaller.com to Dotster. This has nothing to do with the recent downtime other than a really unfortunate tendency to overlap with severe server problems. New web space is waiting to go and I’ve also registered joesfilters.com as a backup in case this all happens again.

Since Thursday I’ve received 26 emails from Network Solutions confirming my attempts to change my contact information. It’s still not changed.

Monumental incompetence.

I’m moving my domains as soon as this is all straightened out. Dotster has been wonderful and transferring several of my other domains has been entirely painless.

While researching somethings related to Internet Radio I came across this incredible list of Public Radio Webcasts at current.org

George Scriban’s blogaritaville has two pieces showing how the RIAA’s self-mutilating practices have undermined the legitimate sales of music. An excellent chart accompanies this entry about CD price-fixing since 1996. Additionally he cites evidence and a quote from the president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers about how the RIAA’s elimination of alternate recording formats such as the CD single has pushed potential customers to online trading.

Jesse Burgheimer of Down10.com rewrote one of my JavaScript Bookmarklets and and uploaded it to filepile.

[this is good]

DV.com, companion website to the printed magazine recently redesigned. In doing so, they broke every single incoming link to anything they’ve ever put online.

I noticed this while working on an article about what it means for video to be “Broadcast Legal”. Who knows if anything is still even there, I couldn’t find an article title I linked through and the useless search results were prefaced by a warning that “Most content now requires free membership
“. Content? I can’t find any. I haven’t registered yet, and I doubt I will. Thankfully the Google cache contained most all of the content from the pages I can no longer directly link to. I’m not the only one pissed at this, Trish and Chris Meyer also seem quite annoyed (read the comment at the top, most every link on the page is broken).

Online publishers need to make a commitment to leaving content where it is otherwise they can not be considered a reference source. To a certain extent, any site requiring registration can not be a reference source, including the New York Times. It’s trivial stupidity like this which makes it harder and harder to learn anything and completely undermines the potential of the Web as a resource for knowledge.

I’m glad I run my own site.

Links to DV.com were intentionally omitted.

Toast : Toaster : Awesome.

(via Jerry Kindall)