Today turned to be a brutal day in web hosting.

Tonight at 5:45 p.m. in Houston, Texas, a transformer in The Planet H1 datacenter caught fire. The fire department required them to take down all generators.

http://newsblaze.com/story/20080531221432nnnn.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

When should affected customers be back online?

When NewsBlaze asked, they said "According to the last update, power should be restored in the data center tomorrow afternoon."

Who is affected?

Many domain names, websites and reseller accounts. One of their top resellers, Hostgator is down with customers left in the lurch

http://forums.hostgator.com/showthread.php?t=33498

Talk on DP forums

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=7982894

Hopefully this all resolves soon.

Any reason to get in to media production?

CBS has shown itself to have one of the biggest pocketbooks on the Web, acquiring Last.fm for a cool $280 million, Wallstrip for $5 million, Dotspotter for $10 million, and most recently CNET for a massive $1.8 billion.

http://mashable.com/2008/05/28/cbs-acquisitions/

" professionally produced Web video is a sweet spot for the television network "

Get fascinated - enjoy the jamm!

Time Lapse of Los Angeles from nils alb on Vimeo.

"It's a boomer with zip!" According to Moses Znaimer

Average household net worth: 560,000+

Marketing to the aging population: 50plus.com

Who is Moses Znaimer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Znaimer

I only wish she was using SEO friendly URLs ... that is it!!!! :)

http://netdudette.com/?p=127

when it could be something like

http://netdudette.com/unbelievable-hosting-deal

(post note: actually not. The site has over 196 pages indexed in G, so why mess with it!)
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I was asked today why people have blogs or write on blogs?

Good question.

Some write about their day, some write about their products, some use blogs to promote their services, some like to rant about other peoples' blogs and such.

Some have blogs to make money.

Some people think they need a blog, when in effect they may need a different solution: i.e., article site, well written website, CMS system etc.

Do we all need to be blogging?

Probably not, but then again you decide.

The most common complaint I hear is the time it takes to write a blog ....

(time taken to write this post : under 2mins. From writing to posting)

Happy Monday

Absolutely.

Going through a few backlink reports on a few domains and lo and behold Voip Telephony comes up with a Google PR5

Some sites barely make it to a PR4.

Niche content, links and more

Nice work!