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Apologies for the outage (if anyone even noticed but me). Not sure if I’m actually up yet. Here’s what my hosting provider says:

Unfortunately there has been a fire within a router which connects the DNS servers to the outside world and has caused disruption to the — Web Hosting service. Please note that we are working on this situation but due to melted cabling it is taking us some time to fix this problem. We anticipate that your site will be online within a few hours. Please bear with us.

Oh, well.

Following AOL/Advertising.com, we’ve got e-mail action and agency combinations. Interesting times (and I don’t mean that in the Chinese curse sort of way).

• Return Path buys NetCreations
  
• Agency.com Gobbles Up Exile On Seventh
  
• aQuantive picks up SBI.Razorfish
  

P.S. The dearth of recent posts is partly due to the blistering pace of news and partly due to activities surrounding my pending relocation to the Bay Area (and my husband’s recent move over there). Busy, busy, busy. But in a good way!

The folks working on the SPF e-mail sender authentication scheme (anti-spoofing/spamming technology) have started a store on CafePress to raise money for implementation.

The dog t-shirt is the best.

Gary has a nice post about a subject that’s been interesting me as of late: Web services and its marketing applications. The impetus? eBay just followed Amazon’s lead by offering more Web services applications for its affiliates.

I wrote about this a while back for ClickZ and am keeping something of an eye on it. Fascinating stuff, though very much in the realm of the techie right now.

Big story of the day: America Online to Acquire Advertising.com in $435M Deal.

A quickie: My (non-techie) husband has taken to calling regular postal junk mail “spam.” Works for me.