Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> writes: > “We’d received an email about a month ago, telling us they were going to > close on Friday the 13th,” said Bethany Silva, the technology coordinator for > King Street Youth Center. “They shut down on > Monday.” > > .... Caught off guard? I mean sure -- 5 days early -- but they had a months > notice. When were they going to think about moving their site? Next week? > > That being said -- this article humorously trivializes the effect (150 > businesses with no online presence is mentioned over half way into the > article) while tries to make a huge issue from the > "lost gigabytes"!!. > > Sigh. Non-techs should ask for help with their tech stories.
Perhaps it took those same non-techies who were customers of Silicon Dairy more than 24 days to find and establish a relationship with a techie to could even begin to start working on the migration of their "working without issue since 2001" site. I've tried to "move" personal/organizational sites in my spare time (such as VAGUE's, in fact, recently), and it can easily take weeks of lag time, even with concentrated effort at times. And a non-techie business relying on semi-techie help for their online presence can take at least as long. Also, does "no online presence" really mean "customer that doesn't have a website, but relied on «[email protected] for inbound and outbound email"? Cause I've seen a number of places that advertise emails like that online and in newspapers … I bet those addresses aren't getting forwarded tomorrow, before updates can be widely dispersed. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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