Al's Blog-o-Sphere

I’ve done it. Again. Against my Luddite inclinations, I’ve joined yet another of the latest-greatest web social networking services. Twitter.

After hearing about it over and over and over and over, ad-nauseum, from every talking head on the TWIT network (This Week In Tech, no connection to Twitter) I was curious about Twitter.

My friend, Scott Leffler does a call-in radio show and recently started taking comments via IM, AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. I was going to suggest Twitter to him, not as a substitute to those, but well, it sounded like something he’d find useful, but before I could, he announced that he had joined Twitter on his website. Continue Reading…

I don’t know what happened, but this web site as well as several others I run were all broken the past couple days. Apparently, the hosting provider had some kind of failure. They’re back, except for my podcast site, and seem to be intact.

The podcast page is the worst off, though. Of course, that’s the one that’s really important to me. Somehow, a lot of the files that are part of the WordPress software that runs the blog, are gone. Thankfully, the Gallery seems to be all there. (I’d hate to restore that from my backups.)

The posts should be safe. They are in a database on a different server. If everything works right, I should just be able to reinstall WordPress and it should take off where it was. But in the meanwhile, I pointed the wnypodcast.com domain to the podcast host, Libsyn. The podcasts are accessible, but I can’t work on the main page, because it redirects to the Libsyn page and I can’t see what it is doing!

I’ve created an alternate domain for the podcast, so I can get to it, but it takes a while to set up. It’s going to be a long process, I can see.

I upgraded the software on this site today. Both WordPress and Podpress are now up-to-date. I recently did the same to my podcast site.

Okay, so the blog software is updated, but why Podpress? Why podcast support in a blog the rarely has audio content? Continue Reading…

Not in an article about podcasts, or local music, but in an article on Blog Spam. Well, as they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity! Continue Reading…