I have been having an issue with Worpress publishing a post I wrote. The admin just hangs when I try to publish the post. After a week of troubleshooting, my hosting company tells me they have SQL injection prevention software that is stopping the execution of the process becuse it thinks something in my post is an attack. I’ll buy that. I done a lot of things to try to troubleshoot the problem: new database, new installation of WP code, move to another server and still no luck.
I have successfully published the exact same text on 2 other Wordpress blogs at this hosting company, but I cannot get it to work on this blog. ( Maybe someone is trying to tell me my post sucks and don’t let the world read it.) I thought it may have something to do with the length, but no. I published a really long latin text post fine. I have inserted it in pieces with success, but when I get to E-mail section, it breaks. I have never seen anything like this.
Here is the text in question:
E-mail (mid 1980s)
E-mail is certainly fast. Type, send, and within a few seconds someone on the other side of the world can read your message - quite awesome. Several people can receive the message at the same time – this is huge – and a conversation can occur between several people – very useful. The problems with e-mail are with managing the conversation:
There’s a lot of overhead with e-mail and replies. Each reply is a new email message not a continuance of the original. Unnecessary noise is created by not being able to control who sees specific replies. Just look how full one’s Inbox becomes. One also has to create a completely new e-mail to communicate with a subset of the recipients and this new email is not related with the original.
It can be difficult to follow the conversation just by reading the message body, even though by default replies are basically in chronological order bottom to top, but sometimes people will put comments in line by the original text, messing this ordering up.
Why can I put it here, but the original post won’t publish until I remove it?
Here is the entire original post.
Evolution of the Digital Message
As we look at the evolution of the digital message, let’s examine three distinct trends:
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Ease
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Managing chronology
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Access
These three concepts are drive technology.
E-mail (mid 1980s)
E-mail is certainly fast. Type, send, and within a few seconds someone on the other side of the world can read your message - quite awesome. Several people can receive the message at the same time – this is huge – and a conversation can occur between several people – very useful. The problems with e-mail are with managing the conversation:
There’s a lot of overhead with e-mail and replies. Each reply is a new email message not a continuance of the original.
Unnecessary noise is created by not being able to control who sees specific replies. Just look how full one’s Inbox becomes. One also has to create a completely new e-mail to communicate with a subset of the recipients and this new email is not related with the original.
It can be difficult to follow the conversation just by reading the message body, even though by default replies are basically in chronological order bottom to top, but sometimes people will put comments in line by the original text, messing this ordering up.
Instant Messaging (IM) (mid 1980s)
IM has some advantages here. It’s super fast, with low overhead and addresses the ease factor, but the messages aren’t easily saved. Replies are always in reserve chronological order - even though the intent was not to be that way; it may be how they happened to be submitted. If the message is saved, it is much more difficult to read because it wasn’t witnessed in real-time - little context. Like e-mail several people can be sent an IM message simultaneously.
Short Message Service (SMS) (mid 1990s)
Short Message Service (SMS) is a lot like e-mail, only for mobile phones and it’s limited to super-short messages. It’s one-on-one and not really meant to be saved, or at least, easily retrieved; best used for spontaneous communication or brief notices. Unlike an actual phone call, it does not need to be answered when received, in this respect it’s e-mail-like.
Blogging (mid 1990s)
Blogging is used as a method of communicating to a vast audience simultaneously. The length of the message isn’t restricted. It’s easily saved and affords conversation with commenting functionality, but comment lists don’t allow much flexibility with how comments to other comments are displayed. All comments are displayed as if to be to the original post.
Forums, Message Boards, News Groups (mid 1990s)
Forums have been successful in providing a very flexible platform for communication. The biggest advantage is one can reply or comment on the original message (thread) or a subsequent comment and it is displayed in a manner where the visitor can easily tell what has happened. It’s not a necessarily a chronological list of blog comments; comments can be related to comments. Also messages (threads) that have recent comments are bubbled up to the top of the list so one can see what is new. All forums aren’t the same, but the idea is - keep the active part of the conversation easy to find and interact with, while archiving the rest in an organized manner.
Micro-Blogging (mid 2000s)
Micro-Blogging has characteristics evolved from IM, SMS and blogging. Like a blog, it can be read by millions of people simultaneously, but has lower overhead, greater ease and speed than a writing blog post. This technology addresses some of the limitations of the above technologies but has limitations with other aspects like chronology, persistence and context.
The Wall (2004)
The Facebook Wall is a forum evolved. There is no single topic. You are the thread. The messages are not necessarily displayed in reverse chronology, but seemingly complex algorithms keep things top-of-page. There’s rating, recommending, sharing, adding. Access is controlled by relationships. It’s fast and easy and can be used on mobile devices increasing speed, accessibility and ease.
Google Wave
Although each of these technologies are pretty good at addressing different parts of the digital message conundrum, not one does it all; enter Google Wave. Wave is still in alpha testing, but it has tried to address speed, chronology, access and more. It combines an e-mail message with forum-type threading and reply mechanisms similar to The Wall. Messages or waves can be replayed, as they were written, like watching it unfold as a spectator, providing context. Recipients see messages typed on their screens in real-time. They can edit any part of the message and changes are noted and tracked. It is truly revolutionary.
The Future
The future is now. With mobile devices quickly becoming rich broadband applications and the user interface of choice, digital messaging will surely progress to include a real-time stream of communication that will have speed, accessibility, context, persistence and defy chronological limitations we see with today’s systems - one giant mash-up on steroids. Uses will be created we haven’t even needed yet. It will be empowering for those who embrace it and it’s all pretty mind blowing.
How I can include it in this post, but it won’t publish by itself? What charecter sequence could be the issue? What is going on? If any of you Wordpress or other experts have any ideas, I’d love to hear from you.
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