Blue gal alerts us:
Blogger (or some malicious person) seems to be marking some of us as spam bloggers.
Skippy, Monkey Muck, Phydeaux Speaks, Frieda Bee, and SteveAudio are among those affected. You can read and post comments to their blogs but they cannot post.
Skippy is now posting temporarily here.
Monkey is here for now.
I hope all bloggers who have this happen can grab a screen shot of the last 100 or so IP addys to visit their blogs. I'll bet there's a common denominator there.
If you or a blogger you know is locked out of Blogger, bluegalsblog [AT] gmail [DOT] com know by email or let everyone know at Blue Gal's place, where, thanks to Skippy, I've just gotten the name straight, pounds forehead on desk.
That's unfortunate.
Lambert snarls. And snarls again. I wonder what Congress has in store for us this recess. Happy FISA anniversary, when Harry and Nancy managed to pass a Republican bill!
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what happened to avedon?
i can't get anything from the link i normally use for her site.
call me foily, because i am. does anyone else see a pattern here? the highly critical "blast off" FL blog, run by one who'll be at the convention, is also down.
I just loaded Avedon
And she's not a blogger blog anyhow, so she's unlikely to be down.
There was another episode like this, IIRC, about a month ago, also with blogger.
FL is a blogger blog?
NOTE Found it. And it loaded, even though it's blogger. So, while I yield to nobody in my appreciation of foil....
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Avedon is down
because her webhost pulled her down over a nasty gram from the British RIAA over an .mp3 on her site:
Pssst...
Blue Gal is not Blue Gal, Red State.
I learned this distinction last Christmas time while doing the Golden Monkeyfist Awards. They are two different Blue Gals. Both are excellent.
Avedon is definitely down. I'm trying to reach her.
This is weird, and I suspect GOPer/FReeper involvement.
I'm following this whole damned mess myself. I realized something had to be up when such a large chunck of my daily reads were not reloading, and then the messages started popping up.
My doors are wide open for any of those affected bloggers, and will happily post any words or statements they need to get out.
--mf
From High Atop The Mighty Corrente Building... Comes Wisdom.
From High Atop The Mighty Corrente Building... Comes Wisdom.
Skippy's generous offer
Shit, I should have thought of that -- but then I couldn't handle it anyhow, as mega RL problem demand my attention.
Skippy, though, ya know... I've got a server, I've got Drupal, I watch the friggin thing 24/7, almost. If anybody wants space, we moved away from blogger for precisely this reason, that we wanted to control our content. But freedom of the press... Scattered thoughts but maybe I could help more....
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Blogger and Tools for PB2.0
Blogger is easy. And it can be a tool for, perhaps, local bloggers who aren't technically savvy or don't have the time for more fancy stuff. These nice little coincidences seem to me a big problem for PB2.0 in the future.
I'm starting to see more clearly your constant calls for a business model.
Only tyrants rig elections.
thanks, lambert!
i've been to the google groups blogger tech faq board, and apparently it's happening to all kinds of blogs, not just political blogs, so it's not any nefarious conspiracy, just plain old fashioned fuck ups!
i appreciate your help!
skippy the bush kangaroo! now with 30% more snark!
skippy the bush kangaroo! now with 30% more snark!
fox did a story...
...when this little bit of blogger boyz social engineering was used against the pro-hillary sites last month. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,382452,00.html
I'm all right, Jack
I can get into my shit OK this morning, not that it's all that important...
Blogger's OK if you're like me and just need a space to blow off steam sometimes, or want to have conversations with your friends. But if I were to aspire to big-time traffic, or heavy-duty PB2.0 stuff, I'd be smart to pay for something more reliable.
The biggest attraction for Blogger is that it's free. But the more bandwidth the big boys demand, the more I expect the screws to be put to us small fry - I'd expect that many of us Blogger folks would quit if we had to start paying for bandwidth. (I'm not optimistic about the future of net neutrality, BTW.) I've also wondered how long Blogger will be interested in hosting the archives of millions and millions of small-time blogs before they tell us they don't have the room to do it any more.
99% of what seems to be maliciousness in this world is merely incompetence, which creates the perfect cover for the 1% that are truly malicious.
...for the rest of us
Don't no don't now try to get yourself elected
If you do you had better cut your hair
It's not a question of viewing the blogs in question
Apparently readers can view and even comment on the affected blogs but the authors cannot post to them.
Thanks for the linky love and attention. xxx
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