Hey everyone,

As election season nears we’ve been asked a few times how students can cite the presidential and vice-presidential debates.  Using the TV citation form, it’s simple. Here’s an example:

2008 Presidential Debate. CNN. New York. 26 Sept. 2008.

Personally, I’ve always found the weeks leading up to an election exciting. The twists and turns this race has taken have been no different. Here are some links I like to check out:

• C-SPAN debate center
• Electoral-vote.com
• Miss a debate? You can find it on Hulu

And of course, for everyone out there that’s of voting age: regardless of your politics, it’s important you participate. Be a good citizen and register to vote - click here to learn more.

Hi all, If you tried using our site last night, you may have experienced intermittent downtime. We had significant concurrent traffic on our system that ended up locking up some of our front-end servers.

We’ve resolved the immediate issue, but are taking steps to prevent this from affecting us long term:

• Two additional front end servers to be deployed this week
• Additional RAM upgrades across front-ends
• Exploration into cloud-computing solutions to handle traffic spillover

Again, apologies for any issues you may have experienced and know that we are working our hardest to keep downtime at a minimum.

When we reach out to educators to talk about EasyBib and hear their feedback, we come prepared. One thing we do know that all educators (and ourselves) have in common is that we all love books. This is the button design we’ve given out. We hope that EasyBib can be loved as a close second to books =D Let us know if you have any clever art ideas on the type of artwork we should create!

We deployed some updates to EasyBib today - here’s a brief summary:

Citation source updates: We’ve added the “vinyl recording” type to the musical recording citation form (thanks Emily!), and the Book of Proverbs to the Bible form (why that was missing the first time around we have no idea - thanks Timothy and Daniel for pointing this out).

Interface updates: A lot of people have been asking if they can export their citations to Word. Even though we’ve had that option since we launched, it was slightly buried. We’ve moved the links around a bit so it should be easier to find (thanks Tom, for this and all of your other great suggestions).

Bib4School tutorials: For our new Bib4School subscribers, we’ve added a number of tutorials to the administrator control panel that help walk you through the process for creating teacher and student accounts.

MyBib signup reminders: When you sign up to a MyBib account, we’ll email your login and password information so you don’t forget.

Speed improvements: We’ve optimized our database, and that’s made our pages load a lot faster. We hope you notice the difference.