Thursday morning updates: survey, campaigns, UnionBook, backups, LabourStart.tv, DDoS attacks, Maghreb, etc
- I plan to stop allowing participation in our online survey once we have 1,000 responses. We currently have 978. Please help by spreading the word. By the way, the largest groups of survey participants come from the following countries so far: UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Norway.
- UnionBook has now reached over 3,000 members following the push yesterday. In fact, we’ve picked up 120 new members in the last 9 days.
- We’ll be closing the Vietnam campaign in the next few days. This will bring us down to only two active campaigns.
- We’ve had a formal request for a campaign from Bangladesh.
- We are expecting additional requests for campaigns in the next few days from Turkey, Japan and Korea.
- I’ll be setting up a French language newswire for the Maghreb countries, as Andy has long proposed.
- I’ve read the Berkman Center (Harvard) report on denial of service attacks on independent media and human rights websites and plan to implement some of their suggestions for improved security in the next few days. I’ve also written up a short article for the British weekly Solidarity about this.
- I’ve changed the way we backup the site now. There is now a full weekly backup of our MySQL databases (we didn’t do this before) and instead of packing (zipping) all our other files and backing that up, we’re now backing up all the files on the site on a weekly basis using FTP.
- I have written once again to the domain registrar for the “.tv” domain requesting that they reinstate our labourstart.tv domain.
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