media: August 2007 Archives

A few results of interest on the survey Association of Internet Researchers listserv members: definitions of lurker and troll, influence of the searchability (i.e., findability) of member postings on the Internet, assessment of a community sensibility and norms for communication (topics, style of discussion).

I need to review their Ethical decision-making and Internet research closely for a project I want to propose for this upcoming academic year. I should also spend some time checking out The Center for Internet Research more closely, too.

Of the five blog hosting companies I contacted, only Greg read my initial email carefully enough to respond with a specific question that was responsive to exactly what I needed to know. Two of the others sent mass-produced (automated?) responses, and the remaining two did respond individually but with just trust us answers: "Yes, we can do that, go ahead."

The transfer is already complete! Hopefully there will be no more "bandwidth exceeded" messages that shut down the site for days at a time, occasionally at inopportune moments (like during Critical Link V last spring, sigh).

What remains now, is clean-up and more learning so I can do more sophisticated things. As in, find more ways to write myself into the world. :-)

I need a new hosting service that supports Movable Type. I also need to upgrade (my version, 3.15, is behind the times). What is web hosting?

pair networks has a refugee special that sounds like me!

2mhost also includes the option of a domain transfer, which is appealing.

Nexcess provides a detailed tutorial, that might be helpful once I get everything actually transferred (by someone besides me!)

AQHost has video tutorials and a website builder (which might only work with PCs, not Macs?)

LivingDot includes consulting; something I've been seeking for awhile.