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This site subject to attack, but now we're back.
Many readers have contacted us in the last four hours wanting to know what has happenned to our blog. It seems we were targeted by a coordinated internet attack wanting to take us off air at this crucial time in the Wolfowitz saga. Our hosting company says that the connections pattern seems to indicate a 'denial of service attack causing load spikes on the server'.
more... Alex Wilks ~ May 16, 2007 A busy month at worldbankpresident.org.
In the interests of transparency - and because we feel like doing some self-promotion - here are the stats for this blog. In the month since we restarted it - after putting it on ice for two years - there have been 32 million hits and around 90,000 unique visitors. A huge number of journalists are using the site as a source (a priority original aim), and roles have become interestingly reversed. Normally I have to work hard to persuade media outlets to publish my NGO's material. In recent days, however, TV channels, major newspapers and others have been lobbying us to ensure worldbankpresident.org covers their output - and fast.
more... Alex Wilks ~ May 12, 2007 worldbankpresident.org is …
the site you need to track the media coverage, insider gossip, official reactions and civil society activity on the World Bank president. If you are a journalist, activist, official, student or anyone wanting to follow the details of this story in real time, you've come to the right place. Alex Wilks ~ May 05, 2007 Contact us.
Journalists or others are welcome to contact the site editor or authors for a quote, comment or contact. They may do so by posting comments to our posts, by e-mail on contact@worldbankpresident.org or by phone on Alex Wilks ~ May 05, 2007 It's a hit! (Updated)
On Saturday many of our readers wrote to say the site was down, displaying a 'bandwidth limited exceeded' notice. We were not sure of the reason: but know we know that it is indeed because of a huge amount of visitors to the site.
more... Alex Wilks ~ April 23, 2007 It's been great, but we're putting this blog on hold.
I've enjoyed blogging about the World Bank president contest, and we've made much more of an impact than I'd expected, despite the appalling result. But now the process has concluded, we're stopping.
more... Alex Wilks ~ April 28, 2005 |
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