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Wednesday, July 5, 2000

It is bad enough that the official Big Brother site has been the same for the past few days. Just a little Big Brother graphic and the option to add it to your AOL calendar (yeah, right). No background or other info like the site for the British version (which starts in a couple of weeks).

Then the first show was badly directed, hoakey (sp?) and not a terribly compelling start. But they told you to go to the website to see live streams from 4 cameras and learn more than the sketchy info on the 10 "guests'" presented on the show.

Right after the show it is still the same boring page. Now even worse for CBS and AOL is the site is completely hosed. This is what lot of curious people are now seeing:

 

Problem Report

There was a communication problem.

Message ID

TCP_ERROR

Problem Description

The system was unable to communicate with the server.

Possible Problem Cause

  • The Web server may be down.
  • The Web server may be too busy.
  • The Web server may be experiencing other problems, preventing it from responding to clients.
  • The communication path may be experiencing problems.

Possible Solution

Try connecting to this server later.

 


posted by steve rhodes on 7/5/2000 9:54:04 PM | link for this item

Tuesday, July 4, 2000

Speed of Sound, an article on digital distribution of audio books by Audible and Loudbooks I wrote is in the July/August issue of Book Magazine (which I am now a contributor to). I also did reporting and wrote a sidebar (which isn't online) for What About E-Reading? by Rob Brookman.
posted by steve rhodes on 7/4/2000 12:07:21 PM | link for this item

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