This sort of thing most often happens after a sharp increase in bandwidth usage that pushes a site over its monthly limit. My guess is either that a major website linked to a spec page that had a lot of content for some reason (a pdf showing up on gawker or something like that) or that someone launched a kind of modified DDoS attack by accessing the Spec website over and over and over again.

Or maybe they just didn't pay their bill.

CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME

The blog "Muslimah Media Watch" linked to a Spectator profile of Khadijah Abdul-Nabi in a post early Friday morning: [ external link to muslimahmediawatch.blogspot.com ]

Technorati says the blog has an authority of 129 and ranks 60,812th among all Internet blogs. (For reference, Bwog has an authority of 136 and ranks 57,095th.)

Maybe this link was the culprit?

nerd.

And considering you took the time to think up, type out, and post that rather mediocre insult, what does that make you?

We paid our bills but we're switching hosts and that's why the site's been off and on in the last day or two. Apologies to the millions--nay billions--of loyal readers we've inconvenienced!

warrants further inSPECtion.

Without the spec to vet the spec's claims of making all necessary payments, who can we trust for a fact check?

think of maybe contacting Spectator to ask why the site was down? Or was that too ambitious a journalistic effort?

probably too much effort.

i know what your response to the "insult" makes you: uptight. Nerd is a low-grade insult. Almost light-hearted. lighten up. (I'm not the original insulter, BTW)

also, i never would have noticed the spec being down. (ooh, zing!)

Culpa is back online. Go vent.

is why we can't have nice things

is back? hooray. what an awesome bwogger she is.

you're a loser

tom faure got this massive cackdiesel

the commentariat is still up! commentariat.specblogs.com

You guys at bwog like to call yourselves "journalists." You know what journalists do when they notice something is out of the ordinary? They investigate it, contacting relevant sources (in this case, Spec editors might have been a relevant source) to see what the reality is, and THEN they report it. Because the full story is rarely evident at first glance.

There's a name for venues that immediately post everything they see in a sensationalist style without investigating further: Tabloids.

needs to chill the fuck out... it'll be ok my friend....the bwog... wil... be... ok....

Yo son bwog never claimed to be pure journalism...maybe some journalism gets done on some shit, but it's a blog, man, not a newspaper. The model of posting what you know, then following up on that shit, is good for a lot of readers because you know that shit as soon as you can, then you can check for the full story when someone gets on that.

Here's a "journal list"

The Wall Street Journal

Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal

My first grade journal, that marbled composition book

"Urinal" pronounced with an accent

I can't remember any more journals

[ external link to www.nytimes.com ]

Bwog, is this why kids are so slovenly in Butler, eating aromatic sandwiches and chicken fingers when 'doing work'? That's just stupid.

Moving out today. This is the last post I'll ever make on Bwog that will have the little crown next to it. Sigh.

In my school it was considered ambitious to take six classes in your senior year. Reading about these kids makes me feel like I was a total slacker in HS. Then I remembered that I still got in here without killing myself like that. Someone should tell those kids to chill out and have a sandwich.

**made

Spec is back online.

down again.

Even when it's supposed to be up, it has issues, ever since they switched to that new CMS.

i thought the spec had a monopoly on incompetent, self-righteous "journalists"?