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Did I miss the memo? (offLine 56)

April 17th, 2007 at 07:06am David Bush - Iasta

Line 56 is offline? I looked into this long running media web site that has traditionally provided extensive coverage of the procurement practices/technology space this morning in order to reference a blog I was writing. Much to my surprise, the site is empty with nothing on it except links to the virtually worthless Knowledgestorm portal. Call me a web purist, but I think it is unacceptable to just shut down to tinker with your web site, especially when your only product is the information on said web site.

What is going on here? Why is there not a development server that is being used while the upgrades or redesign is happening? I move very quickly through my emails but this web problem has jogged my memory that I recently received notification that the Line 56 newsletter was being discontinued (or did I imagine this?). I also now remember trying to read a past article on SaaS which gave me a nice Page Not Found error. If these factors are all happening, I think this spells big trouble for a media source in procurement that has been around since the “C1 is the next Microsoft” days.

Personally, I think the end has already happened and all that is left is the soft landing known as unplugging the web server. Or, I have had my head in the clouds and everyone already knows this. Either way, the blogs keep chugging along filling the voids that are left or were never filled to begin with.

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