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Here’s why I haven’t been returning your phone calls or answering your emails.

* “The Village Church”:http://www.villagechurchnyc.com site went down last week as we were changing web hosts. Unfortunately, due to a miscommunication on my part, we lost our site and backups _before_ I had the chance to download them. LOVE it. Needless to say, we did some “damage control”:http://www.villagechurchnyc.com/news/2006/03/our-new-web-home/ and I lost a bit of sleep over the whole thing. Thanks to my fabulous team, we had it all fixed by the weekend.
* “Pandora”:http://pandora.com is Internet Radio that doesn’t suck. Put in your favorite artist and it will create a radio station of similar artists. Already discovered a “number of bands I like”:http://www.pandora.com/people/ken786, and I’ve only just been using it for a few days.
* Jeffrey is “tired of keeping up”:http://www.zeldman.com/2006/03/22/unmixed with the Web 2.0 Joneses. I feel that.
* Everybody and his mother is starting up a blog about the Newark 2006 Mayoral election–and for good reason: the face off between Mayor James and Cory Booker has already brought about some political drama, such as the “delivery of Mayor James’ petitions _on a bicycle_”:http://newark06.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=34 and the “eviction of Cory Booker from Brick Towers”:http://newark06.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=47. Awesome. Should Booker pick up the win, I think we’ll really see some revitalization to the city, and this blog phenomenon should really kick off an interest in Newark as an online presence.
* On a related note, the Everything Newark blog is now on the ??New York Times?? “Newark 2006″:http://newark06.blogs.nytimes.com/ blogroll.
* I’ve also been doing a bit of research on reporting through WordPress in order to get a handle on our traffic at The Village Church and Everything Newark. I found out that if you take “Google Analytics”:http://google.com/analytics + “Feedburner”:http://feedburner.com + “WordPress Reports”:http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-reports/, you can have a pretty sophisticated reporting solution for your web presence. Already got users subscribed to your news feed? Steve Smith’s “Feedburner Redirect”:http://orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress-feedburner-plugin/ will point them at the Feedburner feed instead with no impact on your users.
* Oh, and ??Angela Wu??’s “boring blogs”:http://hereisangela.blogspot.com/2006/03/just-being-boring.html are much cleverer than my boring blogs.