You may have noticed that I have posted nothing here for about three weeks. You also may have noticed that this is the third blackout this site has had since July.
I apologize for the silence. In the past three weeks this blog has failed to acknowledge a whole series of interesting events and issues about Google and Googlization. I will try to catch up this weekend. I have about 40 tabs open on three different computers. I have to make entries for most of these.
As I lurch toward completion of the book I have been deeply frustrated by the service (or lack thereof) that New York University has provided to maintain this site. Earlier this year the Institute for the Future of the Book moved its content from USC to NYU. Everyone was very excited about the new relationship. Now, we are not so excited.
Bob Stein and the staff at the Institute did a marvelous job moving this site around and getting it running. But they had to deal with a lot to get it done. Not least among their problems were the string of annoying emails from me. So I thank them profusely for getting this site fixed.
We all hope this is the last outage.
I thought I had severed all my ties to NYU when I resigned in 2007. But they keep pulling me back ...
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