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Friday 11 July 2008, 6:15 PM
ZDNet UK blogger Adrian makes awards shortlist
The people have spoken. Our app dev blogger extraordinaire, Adrian Bridgwater, has reached the final shortlist of the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 08. We're very happy that the (ahem! rival) publication has recognised Adrian's work as among the "pick of this year's must-read blogs for IT professionals in the UK".
Adrian is one of ZDNet UK's Core Techs expert bloggers, and over the months he's kept his eye on emerging techniques, the daily demands and the big industry players in applications development. He's travelled the world--including VMWorld--to report back from events such as the IBM Rational Software Developer Conference for people who couldn't get there. And his posts often have a trademark quirk to them--who could forget "Seven reasons to love developers on Valentine's Day"?
So if you enjoy his blogs, why not take a moment to cast a vote for Adrian? He's up for an award in the Programming and technical blogs category. We wish him good luck.
Friday 27 June 2008, 4:39 PM
ICANN sites hijacked?
Just a day after ICANN opened up domain rules, a Turkish group of hackers has messed with some of the Internet body's sites, according to a report on Zone-H.
The report says that the NetDevilz group redirected visitors to "icann.net" and other ICANN sites to a hosting space that carried the following message:
"You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe us?"
In addition to targeting ICANN, which looks after administration of top-level domains, the hackers also went after sites belonging to IANA, which oversees IP addresses and DNS root management, Zone-H said.
But it doesn't look like the organisations' main URLS, &mdash: "icann.org" and "iana.org" — were affected, just less alternatives such as "icann.com" and "iana.com". Which makes you wonder: Once businesses are able to use any domain suffix, as approved yesterday, won't that give hackers even more scope for hijackers?
Monday 2 June 2008, 11:45 AM
Join the server discussion on Uptime
Today we're launching a new group blog dedicated to servers--those essential but maybe unglamourous workhorses of the enterprise. It's called Uptime and you can find it here. (We reluctantly rejected 'Farmers Weekly' as someone had already nabbed that title...)
We're sure that many of you are dealing with server management as a part of your job, that you are thinking hard about which trends you need to keep on top of, and that you'd like to know what others are thinking. The Uptime blog is a place to share those thoughts and decisions, whether you're running two machines or two thousand.
We got a snapshot of what's going on in server rooms in a couple of recent ZDNet UK surveys — take a look and see what you make of the results. Make a blog post, and tick the checkbox for the Uptime server management blog. The post will appear in the group blog as well as in your personal blog.
To get the ball rolling, we'll give an iPod to the member who makes the most useful contribution in the first few weeks. That's not bad, is it?
Wednesday 16 April 2008, 2:13 PM
We return to our regular transmission
Did you see the traffic cones on the site last night? Apologies to anyone who tried to post a comment or find an article — ZDNet UK had some downtime so that the Ops team could move our co-location facility. It's all up and running now, and it's business as usual.
Those of you who've done a similar switch — with all the server, email and other services to wrangle — know that this is the cue for a Very Long Night. Still, the photos below show the guys managed to resist the lure of curling up in the coils of cable:
Can't see any cans of Red Bull...how did they do it?
So thanks to the Ops guys for hard work and successful switch. I'm sure that such jobs don't always go smoothly…
Friday 28 March 2008, 6:06 PM
SEO rapper drops it like a swot
Is this a genius way to get students to remember basic web design principles or a joke?
The SEO Rapper, a Houston-based hip-hop music maker who also goes by the Poetic Prophet or Chuck, is starring in a YouTube video on the principles of online marketing — done in rhyme. Here he tells it like it is — how web standards and correct design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on a site.
The Poetic Prophet's day job is in social media consulting and SEO, so the rhymes are likely to keep flowing. Right now, there's also the "Link Building 101 Rap" and "Paid Search 101 rap", a video response to "Comparing Paid Search and SEO with Abe Mezrich" from Web Marketing Today. Let the SEO video rap battle begin.
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