BuzzMachine
by Jeff Jarvis

January 28, 2003

Xeno
: Nick Denton came to hate San Francisco. He came to hate London. He's running a site that loves New York. I want to see him spend a week in Indianapolis.

Urban paranoia
: Steven Cuozzo was right on target taking on the way-over-hyped Liebeskind design for the World Trade Center: It's overblown; it's architectural show-off; it turns a huge hunk of our city into a grave; it thumbs its nose at commerce and life; it's not human. I hate it, too.
But then he takes that one step too far.
Why does he have to turn this into another "leftist" conspiracy?
Why does it have to be "leftist"?
Can't it just be stupid?
Can't it just be wrong?

: Meanwhile, Steven Johnson was about to be swayed by the Liebeskind wind (says he: "I generally change my opinions about these things based on what the cool kids are saying") but he's bending under the weight of the NYTimes enthusiasm for the THINK proposal.

Whitewash
: All New York is white but it's not snow and it's not virtue, it's salt.
Every street looks like the Bonneville Flats; I expect to see a rocket-powered car (yellow, with off-duty sign lit on top) zipping past any minute.
I'm fearing that we will soon have health-impact studies looking at what will happen to us after we have spent a frigid month inhaling salt dust: We will turn into tuna.
White, white, everywhere. It's the only time when New York looks clean: when it has been attacked by Morton's.
Gawd, I want to defrost.

Rescue me from my sucky host!
: It's not the last time you've heard that request.
I use a sucky service called featureprice -- terribly unreliable and terribly unresponsive service. I've had it.
The only advantage is that I get to host four domains (thus including my kids') for $16.95/month with lots of storage.
I've emailed nothingspecial, used by Welch, Layne, et al; and Hosting Matters, used by Reynolds.
Any other recommendations?
And here's a weblog wish: I wish someone would compile hosting recommendations and warnings so we can at least pool our buying power and what little clout we have to get decent service!

: Update: Denton's compilation of recommendations. See also the comments.

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