My apologies to all my readers. I have people assisting me in restoring the hundreds of posts that are missing because of a hosting company server failure. Unfortunately, I had counted on them to manage backing up the site and although they claimed they would restore the site, there were apparently no usable backups. We have been diligently manually restoring content because the only backup was more than a year old. We ask your patience as we train more people to help with the massive task of … [Read more...]
Internal Server Errors on Twitter AND FeedBurner? CISPA Passed House Headed for Senate
DO OUTAGES MEAN ANYTHING? ARE THEY RELATED TO CISPA? Am I the only one who wonders what is going on when there are issues with many major sites close together? Yesterday, Twitter was down. Today I tried to log into Yahoo mail and it was down. Twitter is still giving Internal Server Errors regularly and I’m getting a lot of tweets that say “Tweet Does Not Exist” when I try to retweet them, but they’re sitting right there and then go away. Twitter’s Internal Server Error Failures … [Read more...]
Proposed FTC COPPA Changes Include Yet ANOTHER Call for National ID
Internet Attorney Richard B. Newman keeps me apprised of important legal issues that affect all of us and I make sure others know about them. The day after the FTC announced proposed changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Richard had already done an in-depth analysis on how COPPA changes will affect businesses, publishers, advertisers and mobile app developers. The next three quotes are from that analysis: "The FTC has now proposed significant modifications to … [Read more...]
