No Treason

Tuesday June 9th, the LewRockwell.com blog did not update.  I could tell something was glitchy, as links to recent posts would not resolve, and the RSS feed was unresponsive.  This morning, Lew Rockwell explains,

For almost 24 hours, for the first time ever for LRC, the blog was down. My attempt to upgrade to the latest version of Moveable Type software didn’t work. But what did I expect from a closed-source program? Now we’re on WordPress, which is open source (though I do have to admit my fingers are crossed). In any event, apologies for the missing day. I don’t quite feel like the great Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend, but it was definitely a drama. If I’d had any hair, I would have pulled it out. Thanks to Chris Brunner and Aristotle Esguerra.

Three things.

One. WordPress is the best blogging platform.  It’s also arguably one of the best simple site CMSs (content management systems) available.  This is one of those instances where open source is superior to closed source.  You’ve made a great choice Lew because WordPress is the same platform Stephan Kinsella uses for the heroic journal, Libertarian Papers.

Two. When I first needed web hosting, I was doing e-commerce.  Sales were once every couple days, and I would literally climb the walls if my site was down for half a day, not because I was losing out on lots of sales, but because I could be missing the one sale I would make for several days.  7 years later, anything under 24 hours of total downtime barely phases me anymore.  That said, if you upgrade anything it’s always good to have expert help on standby and always backup *everything* first.

Three. I noticed that comments are disabled on LRC for the blog posts.  Lew, please keep it that way. You do not want to deal with arguments, flamewars, spammers and trolls.  On a low traffic volume blog like NoT, I can accept comments, and even sweeten the pot by making them dofollow, but on a high traffic blog like LRC, comments have the potential to turn the blog into a zoo and lower the quality of the postings.  The other upside of comments off, means that bloggers have to link to the LRC Blog and build authority for lewrockwell.com, instead of dropping links to their own work on your site as a form of indirect cross promotion.  It might not sound very egalitarian, but link strategies are strictly utilitarian.  Google does not smile as generously on sites which hand out links as much as sites that collect them.

Also, Stephan Kinsella has some level of management over the sites of Walter Block and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and has already upgraded the Walter Block site as well as his own from static PHP to WordPress running Chris Pearson‘s Thesis theme.

Other notable libertarian sites running WordPress (please forgive sins of omission) are,

• No State
• No Third Solution
• Austro-Athenian Empire
• Center for a Stateless Society
• Irish Liberty

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