A friend Googled “ilind.net” today and alerted me to the importance of the date. The domain, iLind.net, was created on January 27, 2000, according to public domain records. So today is its 12th birthday, anniversary, whatever. I started in mid-September 1999, when the old Star-Bulletin was targeted for closure. For the first several months, I [...]
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Attorney, community activist, and blogger Margaret Wille is “moving towards” running for a seat on the Hawaii County Council. Wille, a Waimea resident, hopes to fill the District 9 seat being vacated by Councilman Pete Hoffmann, who can’t run again due to the council’s term limits. I”ve been a fan of her blog, MargaretWille.com, for [...]
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Things seem to be bogged down this morning. I’ve reported the slowdown to my hosting service, and hopefully they’ll be able to tweak things from their end. So far, the site isn’t “down,” just very slow. I thought maybe Oceanic Cable was causing problems, but speedtest results show my broadband connection is working just fine. [...]
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Here’s a follow-up to yesterday’s post about an unsolicited email that turned out to be planted by the American Beverage Association. This time, though, it’s an online petition that also sweeps off information to be used by the activist group MoveOn.org. A reader called it to my attention. Hi Ian, Just saw this article online [...]
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Thanks to my cousin, Leslie (clutter museum.com), for her collection of links to a variety of news and comments from the recent pepper spray incident at the University of California Davis campus. I was especially struck by the observations of Kristin Stoneking, campus chaplain, who was asked to assist the chancellor, who reported being trapped [...]
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Are you having problems with this site? If so, please let me know so that I can troubleshoot. One reader just reported an issue: I don’t know if anyone else has said anything but your site has been crashing my browser page for the last week. I simply close the tab or page and it [...]
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An informal survey of a small group of bloggers, reported on today on BlogHer, turned up this interesting result–most of those who responded said that there isn’t any relationship between how hard you work on a post and the reactions it generates. In fact, some reported that it’s an inverse relationship. The less you work [...]
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I’ve been mulling over the possibility of adding a new level of online discussions. I notice that there is a lot of interst, resulting in lots of comments, on certain issues, usually issues where there is a strong contrast of opinions but sometimes a wide disagreement over the factual context. I’m wondering if there is [...]
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