(ISF) Tucows has acquired my blog host

(A version of this item, with live links, is available at
<http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/25/2054787.html>.)

Dear ISF Colleagues,

People ask me about my blog host all the time. The two most popular
queries are:

1) What platform are you using, and who hosts it?

2) Why does your blog host keep disabling your blog?

They ask the first question because they like the way my blog looks.
As I've previously explained, my blog host is Netidentity, which is a
reseller of the Blogware platform.

I'm still struggling to understand the answer to the second question.
Apparently, my blog is a bandwidth sinkhole, using up its monthly
allotment in two or three days. My contact at Netidentity, the
sainted Tony Nicosia, has labored in vain to help me understand why
this is so, and has come up with various interim solutions to keep my
blog online. Like I say, this guy is a saint.

All this is complicated by the fact that Netidentity not only is my
blog host but also the owner of the domain name finn.com. (That is, I
rent deborah.elizabeth.finn.com from them.) Even if I wanted to find
another Blogware reseller, I'm not eager to port my entire identity to
some other provider.

But now the Tucows - the company that created Blogware - has acquired
Netidentity! This seems like good news to me, because the folks at
Tucows have always been very responsive to my requests and queries
about Blogware. Maybe that's because Joey deVilla, the prominent
Tucows/Blogware maven, is married to a buddy of mine from the Berkman
blogging group, the brilliant Wendy Koslow. I won't go so far as to
say that Joey owes reparation to Wendy's fans in Massachusetts, now
that he's spirited her away to Toronto, but I've appealed to him for
Blogware help once or twice, and he's been very kind.

I'm hoping that trouble-shooting will get a lot easier once my domain
name, my blog host, and my blog platform are all under one corporate
umbrella. If not, I wonder if I can send out a distress call to
Wendy. She's right there in Toronto, convenient to Tucows
headquarters, and she's one tough babe. Watch out, Netidentity!



Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finnpost.harvard.edu
www.cyber-yenta.org