Today's an exciting day for gurBlogs and Room Eight. We just finished migrating to our new host, the Media Temple gridserver. The gridserver is a fairly new hosting technology (which Tech Crunch reviews here). Unlike traditional shared hosting environments, where multiple sites are hosted on one server, the gridserver is just that: a grid of multiple servers that function as one collective host.

The best part about the grid is that it enables sites to pay-as-they-grow; and to withstand unforseen spikes in traffic. And for starters, we're paying about a tenth of what we were paying on our previous vps. Love it!

Just thought I'd share.

The folks from the Personal Democracy Forum asked me this question:

[With the 2006 mid-term elections behind us, we asked a distinguished group of technologists, politicos, bloggers, and journalists to respond to the following questions: Was the role of technology in politics different in 2006 than in 2004? How did new technology most affect Election 2006, and do you see any lessons for 2008?]

And so, I gave them this answer (3rd one down).