One week ago, we moved the Bloglines service from the AT&T datacenter in Redwood City, CA to MCI in Bedford, Massachusetts. This was a challenging and complex undertaking that required months of preparation by many groups. Now that the dust has settled, over the next couple of days I’ll explain some of the process involved. We had been at AT&T since Bloglines first went on-line in June, 2003, and had been very happy with them.

I’m a bit late with this post, but I wanted to thank the organizers of Eday for the opportunity to speak in Amsterdam a few weeks back. I had a great time and even managed to squeeze in a few days of vacation in Tuscany afterwards (my first vacation in a few years). Also, this is a reminder that I’m speaking tonight at the Building and Launching a Consumer Company session of the IBD Network.

The rest of the year is shaping up to be busy, conference wise. Here is a somewhat complete listing of where I’ll be over the next couple of months: I’ll be at Web 2.0 this Friday, on the Prosumer Media panel. On October 12th, I’ll be giving the keynote at the Emerce Eday conference in Amsterdam. On November 1st, I’ll be on a panel titled Building and Launching a Consumer Company talking about one of my favorite subjects: how it’s gotten very cheap to start and launch Internet companies.

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Things have been quiet around here, and I apologize. In no particular order: I was on two panels at the SES San Jose conference last week, which was fun. If you ever have the chance to test Gary Price’s knowledge of obscure ‘80’s pop-culture trivia, I highly recommend it. The man is an encyclopedia both of amazing breadth and depth. I did in fact go flying in a Stearman, and I have the pictures to prove it.