27 CommentsBwogger Lydia DePillis noticed that attempting to reach the Spec‘s website now brings one to the following message:
Ruh-roh. Has Spec not been footing the bill’s for its web presence? Or perhaps it simply went the way of the Barnard Bulletin, whose foray into the world of the Internet was all too brief.
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@spec Spec is back online.
@...aaaaaaaaand down again.
Even when it’s supposed to be up, it has issues, ever since they switched to that new CMS.
@CU08 Moving out today. This is the last post I’ll ever make on Bwog that will have the little crown next to it. Sigh.
@Anonymous http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/nyregion/24lunch.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin
Bwog, is this why kids are so slovenly in Butler, eating aromatic sandwiches and chicken fingers when ‘doing work’? That’s just stupid.
@wow In my school it was considered ambitious to take six classes in your senior year. Reading about these kids makes me feel like I was a total slacker in HS. Then I remembered that I still got in here without killing myself like that. Someone should tell those kids to chill out and have a sandwich.
@makes **made
@a real journalist You guys at bwog like to call yourselves “journalists.” You know what journalists do when they notice something is out of the ordinary? They investigate it, contacting relevant sources (in this case, Spec editors might have been a relevant source) to see what the reality is, and THEN they report it. Because the full story is rarely evident at first glance.
There’s a name for venues that immediately post everything they see in a sensationalist style without investigating further: Tabloids.
@someone... needs to chill the fuck out… it’ll be ok my friend….the bwog… wil… be… ok….
@DHI Yo son bwog never claimed to be pure journalism…maybe some journalism gets done on some shit, but it’s a blog, man, not a newspaper. The model of posting what you know, then following up on that shit, is good for a lot of readers because you know that shit as soon as you can, then you can check for the full story when someone gets on that.
Here’s a “journal list”
The Wall Street Journal
Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal
My first grade journal, that marbled composition book
“Urinal” pronounced with an accent
I can’t remember any more journals
@hmmm i thought the spec had a monopoly on incompetent, self-righteous “journalists”?
@blatantselfpromotion the commentariat is still up! commentariat.specblogs.com
@oh yeah tom faure got this massive cackdiesel
@lydia is back? hooray. what an awesome bwogger she is.
@Spec is why we can’t have nice things
@Btw Culpa is back online. Go vent.
@Bwog, did you think of maybe contacting Spectator to ask why the site was down? Or was that too ambitious a journalistic effort?
@well... probably too much effort.
@This certainly warrants further inSPECtion.
@tom faure We paid our bills but we’re switching hosts and that’s why the site’s been off and on in the last day or two. Apologies to the millions–nay billions–of loyal readers we’ve inconvenienced!
@hmmm... Without the spec to vet the spec’s claims of making all necessary payments, who can we trust for a fact check?
@wu-tang CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME
@Web designer This sort of thing most often happens after a sharp increase in bandwidth usage that pushes a site over its monthly limit. My guess is either that a major website linked to a spec page that had a lot of content for some reason (a pdf showing up on gawker or something like that) or that someone launched a kind of modified DDoS attack by accessing the Spec website over and over and over again.
Or maybe they just didn’t pay their bill.
@jyh The blog “Muslimah Media Watch” linked to a Spectator profile of Khadijah Abdul-Nabi in a post early Friday morning: http://muslimahmediawatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/friday-links-may-23-2008.html
Technorati says the blog has an authority of 129 and ranks 60,812th among all Internet blogs. (For reference, Bwog has an authority of 136 and ranks 57,095th.)
Maybe this link was the culprit?
@you're a nerd.
@jyh And considering you took the time to think up, type out, and post that rather mediocre insult, what does that make you?
@someone else i know what your response to the “insult” makes you: uptight. Nerd is a low-grade insult. Almost light-hearted. lighten up. (I’m not the original insulter, BTW)
also, i never would have noticed the spec being down. (ooh, zing!)
@another person you’re a loser