Joe Nonneman

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• April 26, 2001, on ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up:

  I have been reading photo.net, arsdigita.com, and greenspun.com for four years. I found photo.net because I came looking for advice on a new SLR system and left with a new perspective on computer software engineering. Information that Philip provided for no cost (except my eternal gratitude) helped me make a quick switch from desktop programming to web programming, even if most assignments since then have used Microsoft technology. With this said, this information is very sad. I do not have any communications with arsDigita formally. I have only followed the website to learn from Eve, Philip, and others. However I did see a notable change to a more closed model in the last four to six months. I should have seen this coming. Many other posters did see it coming. I am hoping that since a couple of days have passed since Philip's post that he might follow up, especially on the idea of an ArsDigita2 (I suggest the informal name Ars2D2). I think he should fight this fight to...

• June 7, 2001, on ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up:

  ArsDigita is going to kill itself. I just got a page from Uptime saying that they are going to kill that service. It is a 24-hour notice! Can you believe that ArsDigita is going to kill a service that many people rely on with only 24 hours notice? This is even less time than the recent DSL debacles. Not that *I* mind. I was using it for a personal site to benchmark the reliability of a free hosting service (nbci). But I know that others have informally been using this as an important tool. I really hope the trial goes Philip's way because it would be nice to put the company back on a productive track. Everyone knows that you don't get something for nothing. However, Uptime is (was) a simple, probably very inexpensive, service that ArsDigita provided in return for good opinion and marketing around the Internet. It seems like a boneheaded move to me. Someone should assert an irreparable harm and hit them with an injunction.