Update 8/4: BadBlue News has been restored.
Caution: this is a really techno-geeky article describing what in the Sam Hill happened to BadBlue and the progress made thus far in restoring it
I've gotten a fair number of emails over the last few days expressing concern that the news aggregator BadBlue.com is not updating news stories.Now: a little bit of background on the site. It is a full automated news-gathering site that leverages social media (e.g., Twitter) to determine which stories are trending. Its database consists of over 750 news sites that are scanned pretty much continuously for "hot" stories.
I created BadBlue in 2011, initially working with the great John Hawkins (then of Right Wing News and now of Brass Pills), but eventually going out on my own. I used Amazon Web Services (AWS), the powerful cloud hosting platform, to spin up several Linux machines to host the content. If memory serves, the original launch of BadBlue was in January of 2012, more than seven years ago.







