Some people out there watch disaster movies, just to see the panic, destruction and frankly, watching stuff blow up. I have a feeling that MSNBC fans are of the same ilk.
Here is some of their Democratic National Convention coverage:
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Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers
The Web Hosting Show was great this week. I got a one on one interview with Paul Hirsch of the AIHSP (the Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers) explaining this new web hosting group, what they hope to do and how you too can join up. Check out the podcast for the entire interview: What is the AIHSP? – Episode 162 of the Web Hosting Show!
Here are some of the questions I asked Paul about the alliance:
- Where did the idea of staring up AIHSP begin?
- After looking over a lot of the goals the AIHSP has set, a lot of them seem to be aimed to benefit employees. What about contracted workers, who often not given the same rights as an employee?
- I have one major concern, what happens to the little web hosts?
- What can people and businesses do if they want to get involved?
To learn more about what the AIHSP wishes to do, the best place to check out first (after you listen to the podcast, of course) is the AIHSP Goals page. If you want to learn more about this exciting group or get involved yourself, check out aihsp.org.
OneNews – Create a List of News
The popurls-style of lots of sources on one page is a very interesting one that a lot of people have tried to copy. Here is a theme for WordPress however, that will get you off on the right foot.
OneNews does a great job at giving you a WordPress powered multiple news headlines on one page tool. Ok, maybe that isn’t the prettiest way to describe it but it has got me inspired to perhaps create my own new project styled much like this one. Now just got to find the time…
Social News Site in a Box
Always said you would like to have a social news site like digg, but didn’t have the time to develop or work on it? Thanks to slinkset.com, you don’t have to. They promise to deliver you your own social news site that you can customize, user your own domain on and auto-post links via RSS for free. Here are a few examples:
One more cool feature is it looks like you can create a private site too, that would only be accessible to the people you invite. Give slinkset.com a shot, and if you create one yourself feel free to share it here with us.
Looking Ahead at WordPress 2.6
With Firefox 3 out, now I need something else to look forward to in the area of tech. Hmm, WordPress is already working on version 2.6 you say? I like WordPress, and the hinted at list of new features looks to be building on an already solid 2.5.
Here are a few things to look forward to in WordPress 2.6:
- Post Revisioning
- A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
- A new image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
- Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
- Built-in word counting in the post editor
- The ability to relocate your content directory
- The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
- Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
- Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
- Check box range selection with shift-click
You can check out the full list of goodies over at Ryan’s blog and also pickup the beta 1 if you have a place you’d like to play with it.
Alltop is all the best of the web?
Inspired by popurls, Alltop hopes to deliver you what popurls does but do so in a way that covers more content rather than cool page tweaks. If your looking for a way to browse through a lot of news rather quickly, without cluttering up your RSS feed reader then Alltop is a must have bookmark.
From celebrities, gaming, news, photos, politics, food and more they have more than just a few topics covered well. They also seem to specialize in just bringing the best resources on a lot of different topics together in one spot.
Where a place like popurls gives you general geeky web goodness with a lot of page customization tweaks, Alltop focuses on delivering you as much relative content as they can and do so in a stylish way.
DreamHost Over Charge You Yet?
Looks like the DreamHost people fell asleep yet again at the wheel. What they describe as a “teensy eensy weensy little billing error” turned out to be $400 to $9,000 in overcharging their customers. Feedback is coming in quickly with the story being posted all over the ‘net.
Usually finding themselves being bullied by DreamHost themselves, Lunarpages has rolled out a great deal for any DreamHost people wanting to switch.
Use code DHRefugees to receive $40 off hosting with Lunarpages and we will also buy out the remainder of your contract with DreamHost! (Up to 9 months!)
Here is more about the fiasco from the Web:
- Robbing Your Customers?
- Dreamhost billing issues
- Dreamhost mistakenly bills customers for multiple years
- Digg Article on the DreamHost Mess
- Dreamhost Billing Issues!
- Um, Whoops.
Not a good time to be a customer of DreamHost, that is for sure. Also as a point worth mentioning for all fairness, I am a contracted worker for LP… but anybody who has seen my publicly viewable resume and mention of if here time and time again can see that. 
Update: Looks like by watching the DreamHost blog they have posted a few more posts after the one that was heard around he Web. Seems like they are doing a better job the second time around discussing this issue than the first. I’ll give them two thumbs up for that.
Update #2: No, I was not bullied by anybody to update this post (removing some of the negativity) – I took in feedback, and adjusted my thoughts, it happens. As for those who want to try to drag me into a public fight over one of my employers – no thanks, got more important things to worry about than people trying to make a name out of themselves by trying to shoot me down. Thanks for reading!
Another Social Hosting Site – HostingBookmarks.com
There is another digg clone from the hosting world to look at today. HostingBookmarks.com is the first though to focus more towards hosting news and help rather than hosting deals.
I’d like to see them ditch the “this was made with Pligg” stuff – kind of makes a bad first impression. Funny enough though, when you register and login it goes away from public view so maybe it is something they are just not seeing. To be a success it looks like this web site just needs more members.
Submitting a link couldn’t be easier – so that is one positive. Here is an example link I submitted for testing purposes:
http://www.hostingbookmarks.com/WebHostingHelp/The_Web_Hosting_Show/
Overall with a little bigger of a user base and a few tweaks to the interface here and there, Hosting Bookmarks could be an awesome service and tools for finding out what is going on inside the hosting world.
So with Hosting Bookmarks in the mix, that makes three social hosting tools out there to date:
What will be next? I am still sort of surprised that none of the bigger hosting players have jumped into this mix – but then again it is still early in the game.
Simple Hosting Links, News, Resources
Feeling like I should go touch up a few older projects of mine, HostingHoopla.com has gotten a major upgrade and refocusing. Hosting Hoopla is now the best “link blog” the web hosting industry has ever seen.
Has the hosting business seen any others? Shh.. don’t steal my thunder.
I’ll be putting up links there on a day to day basis, combing through the press releases and neat web development resources to find the best of the best for all of you. With each link I pass your way I’ll give you a quick description and let you sort of know my feelings about it. I guess you could say it is a kind of extension from the Web Hosting Show podcast. Just think of it like WebHostingShow.com but without all the text and podcasts getting in the way.
Of course you can subscribe via the RSS feed or even get daily e-mail updates. Don’t forget the mobile device friendly version of the Hosting Hoopla link list as well. Many ways to take in the hosting goodness.
Feel free to let me know what you like, what you don’t like, what you need and what you want. I am totally open to suggestions, just send them my way.
Free iPhone Giveaway!
Well I would give one away if I had one. Personally, I want to thank Apple for allowing me to skip out on reading and feeds today because I can’t freaking turn around without seeing another “I’m Getting an iPhone Man!” posts today.
I’m not bitter though, instead of fighting the noise – I’ll just contribute to it.
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