Wednesday, April 2, 2008

This is a test -- April fool software glitch? Hmm... There I go tempting fate. I edited yesterday's post this morning, adding an updated story link about the "blog-comments versus peer-review" topic before our panel discussion. After the panel, I realized I'd missed an opportunity to add something amusing to the page, accusing myself of "changing history" -- especially ironic since I had "changed the past" by editing something with an April 1 date on it the day after Google's April Fool item about sending back-dated e-mail. So of course I added more to the page... and hit the "publish" button. But for the first time I can remember -- and I've used this program for years -- the new content isn't "upstreaming" properly from my computer to the Web server. I went looking at Radio Userland's help page and discovered I'm not the only one with the problem. That's OK, I can wait... But I was surprised to see who else was standing in line at the virtual counter: Former MTV dude, A-list blogger and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry... or some April-fooling with his name... I figured he had moved on to fancier software than Radio Userland a couple of years ago -- although he was one of the company's star customers for quite a while. http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$39154#39158 Otherwise, this note is just a test to see if the server is back accepting new material. And it's an excuse to embed a few links about April Fool's Day in preparation for a class discussion of fake newspaper stories, hoaxes and manipulations of reality, including some by my favorite tabloid. 4:28:32 PM    comment []

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