Blog Action Day
Last year was the first edition Blog Action Day. At the time the event was launched as an annual event. So this year they kept their word and Blog Action Day is back. This year the theme is Poverty. On October 15 bloggers, podcasters and videocaster from all over the world will unite and address the topic of poverty. Thousands of voices with a reach of millions talking about the topic from hundreds of different angles.
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
I have already signed up to participate again. This year I even took an hour of extra time, and translated a part of the site to Dutch. Read about Blog Action Day and sign up to participate.
Alltop
This week I got the confirmation that I kick ass! How to be an Original has been included in the GTD section of Alltop. It’s only the productivity / GTD feed that’s included and not the entire site, but that makes sure that there’s a good topical focus on Alltop.
Alltop is a new activity started by Guy Kawasaki a while back. Alltop shows the last five items of a selection of feeds, related to a specific topic. Go check out GTD on Alltop!
Switching hosts
I’ve thought about switching hosts for How to be an Original a while back, but I’ve finally made the decision to follow through on that thought. I’m switching for two reasons.
The first reason is that my current host causes downtime everyday! Around 1am the database server goes down, and since WordPress is a database driven application, the blog goes down as a result too. I rediscovered this phenomenon, ever since I switched back to being a night owl. The reason for this downtime is most likely a scheduled restart of the server. But 1 am might be okay for people in my timezone, but most visitors on How to be an Original are from North America and for them the downtime is during the afternoon and early evening. Not a good thing.
The second reason is simply financial. I’m consolidating various hosting plans and domain registrations to a single host. And it’s gonna save me a lot of money! I’ve chosen Dreamhost as my new host, and so far I’m liking it very much (only on board for two days…). Dreamhost has had their fair share of problems too, but I very much like the transparency they give on their operations (and troubles). And they have humor.
This week I’ll be moving this blog. I’m planning to make this a smooth transition, but switching hosts is challenging and there might be some glitches. There’s not going to be a new design, so you won’t notice what host you’re getting your data from. For the curious among you: if you see “hosted on Dreamhost” in the footer, you know where you’re getting your data from.
That’s it for now. Wish me luck…switching hosts is not quite my hobby.
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Good to see you on Alltop as well!
I’ll be adding my banner soon …
@Dave Navarro – Thanks Dave. There are a lot of cool blogs on there. I noticed that there’s a section lifehacks too, maybe I should apply there as well.
I’ll be adding the banner soon as well, but first I need to finish up this hosting switch.