Global Spin has moved!  If you can read this, that means you’re looking at the new improved site and not the old and busted site.  Congratulations!

(From Chris) So I’m still having random blog issues, but it seems like none of the other authors are. I created a new user in order to test that theory. Hopefully it’s some adminitrative wackiness thing and not Global Spin turning against me.

This is a test. I’m having some difficulties with the blog software. Please stand by.

UPDATE: Looks like the problem was resolved. We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.

Honestly, I am still going to post something about “Mashup Camp”:http://mashupcamp.com and my experiences there. I just have to free up a bit of time before I can do so. In the interim, take a look at just a few of the “many”:http://www.technorati.com/search/mashupcamp.com “news”:http://news.com.com/Big+names+collaborate+at+the+unconference/1606-2_3-6041781.html?tag=fd_carsl “items”:http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/monkeybites/index.blog?entry_id=1420022 about the event.

Many many thanks to Karen for posting her entertaining Knitting Olympics progress. You probably didn’t even notice my absence.

Here’s another strange blog artefact. I’ve mentioned before how “odd searches bring people to this site”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000496.html. One of the popular search terms has been *tiananmen*, which leads searchers to a “brief note commemorating the 1989 massacre”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000327.html. It consistently gets 300 or so hits per month, while other top search terms average 20.

When Google started “censoring searches from China”:http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/29/googlecn_tibetans_pr.html, though, that number exploded. Traffic to the site has tripled in the past few days, with 5000 searches for tiananmen landing on that bit of a page. Apparently, “tiananmen square”:http://www.google.com/search?q=tiananmen+square was used as the most obvious query Google is blocking.

The strangest part of all this is that I can’t even find that page in the Google search results. Think of what the traffic might be if it showed up on the first page…