It looks like Ping! Zine has gone from a free Web hosting magazine to a “subscription” based one. This is big news because I think at least, it means they have a chance of becoming successful enough to charge for it. For the folks out there that still want one of the best hosting magazines for free though - I have a place to send you. Lets just keep this our little secret. 
Now it looks like I might have rubbed a few people at the WHIR the wrong way with my commentary on how the only folks that are commenting on WHIR blogs are the other WHIR writers. It’s funny this catches their attention and me mentioning that WHIR TV would be a lot better with Anastasia Tubanos in a bikini doesn’t. For the post that started all of this - click here.
Let me comment on something Liam Eagle said though:
Mitch seems to think he’s unraveling some sort of conspiracy. But this is hardly a revelation. It ought to be patently obvious to anyone reading the WHIR blogs that we’re posting comments on each other’s entries. We’re certainly not doing it in secret.
Nobody said it was a secret.
The reason I thought it was funny is that the Web Host Industry Review is one of the biggest dogs in the fight. They are the “leaders of the pack” in some people’s eyes. When you look at other Web hosting leaders blog (take Bob Parsons for example) he gets comments all over the place. Why isn’t the WHIR Blog team getting the same reaction? That is what I thought was “odd” and then “funny”.
Just to make it clear yet again, just because I might question or highlight what the WHIR is doing doesn’t mean there is a “negative meaning” behind it. Heck, I even wrote for the WHIR once upon a time (did one article too my whole month there :)).
One thing that the WHIR does very well is Web hosting news. I am in no way, shape or form in competition with the WHIR team. They have a bigger budget, a bigger team, and more leverage in the business than a little old Web hosting podcaster like me has. I am only trying to bring attention to what I see.
Now one more comment on what Liam had to say in his own comment:
Hey Mitch. I was going to reply here, but I thought maybe nobody would see it, so I put something up on my blog. 
Yes Liam, maybe nobody would have seen it here, but then again - where did WHIR TV go anyways?
