It was thrilling when uber hard working Rafat Ali and team had the chance to cash out with a sale of Paid Content, and cool to see their conference business expand, but the recent problems I've had accessing the site make me wonder if one of those behind the scenes consolidating servers corporate endeavors is screwing things up--it's tragic when a site that supposed to carry competitive news and analysis just PLAIN REFUSES TO LOAD.

What is with that? Secret buy-out by TechCrunch? Or short-sighted corporate IT issues? Whatever it is, I am feeling the pain.