so why has it been so quiet here lately?

As people have already been pointing out, its got very quiet on barganews recently. There are a couple of reasons.

The main one is that we are in the middle of a move. Yes, we are finally opening a barganews.com office in Barga Vecchia. We did have an office near to the Comune a couple of years ago but moved out to let the Information Office take over. This time we are opening an office in Piazza Angelio and should have it up and running as soon as telecom puts in some wires so that we can connect with the world.

The second reason for the lack of articles is that we have been experimenting with some new software to enable us to page up articles and images a good deal quicker than the present system.

We have been using a blog software which runs on third party servers and sometimes gets clogged at peak times. We are now running our own blogging software on our own servers which should speed things up a bit. All should be ready in a couple of days (fingers crossed)

A sneak preview can be seen here