Blogger users unhappy in 2004 2005 20062007

In another case of all that is old is new again, users of Google’s Blogger service are unhappy (again), complaining that the service has suffered from repeated outages, feature malfunctions and data loss.

Computerworld reports that the problems are “particularly frustrating” to bloggers who recently migrated to the latest version of blogging on the expectation that the new platform would be more reliable than the old platform, which had a history of…. repeated outages, feature malfunctions and data loss.

Blogger users reported problems including*

• Mysterious gremlins with faces like Marissa Myer and Matt Cutts eating blog entries,
• Being bared from posting comments because unlike most other users of the service, they didn’t have 100 spam blogs hosted there
• wonky RSS because all of a sudden 5000 other Blogger users stopped reposting their content
• Little or no response from Google to support requests, with some users still waiting for responses dating back to 2004

Are you a non spam blogging Blogger user suffering problems with the service, let us know, I’m sure we can find someone to fix the problem for you…with WordPress :-)

*Yes, I’ve taken the liberty of juicing the story up a little bit, after all, who wants to read the exact same story that has been covered extensively every year, and just about every single month since Google bought Blogger. Nothing changes, but I would like to see a Matt Cutts gremlin :-)

 

Tags: Google, Blogger

Originally posted on February 6, 2007 @ 6:35 pm

There was a time when commercials were just another form of mass-marketing and were used to sell stuff. But times have since changed and commercials have become content on their own.

The Apple ad changed everything. It was now commercial as content, commercial as event. The Apple ad was seen by more people after the game via free media than saw it during the game itself.

While millions across America watch the Superbowl for the game, there are millions more over the world that could care less about the game but sit through it just to see the advertisements. Even more interesting, and further proof of what Seth is talking about, are websites like this, that bypass what is supposed to be the content (in this case the game) and give you access to what are supposed to be commercials (but may as well be content under our new definition).

Being from Pakistan, while I am completely oblivious to everything related to American Football, I am aware of the Superbowl advertisement phenomenon and I too bypassed the programming and just looked at the advertisements. Who would’ve thought that people would voluntary go looking for ads?

Originally posted on February 5, 2007 @ 12:05 am

Want a quick way to show your readers how long you’ve been blogging? Just add the following code to the sidebar or footer of your blog and you’re ready to go.

(click image for text code)

Be sure to replace January 7th, 2006 with the date you started your blog.

With age comes wisdom. How (blogging) old are you?

Originally posted on February 5, 2007 @ 9:35 pm

According to Web Pro News, Ogilvy North America is partnering with Technorati to offer clients blogs, vlogs, videos, photos, and other online user-generated media. The hope is for their clients to better understand the blogosphere and improve in building their brands. I’m a bit baffled by this but I’m starting to see the bigger picture of Technorati. I believe they see themselves more as a blog monitoring service to companies than a consumer search product. Atleast that’s my impression.

I really wish Technorati would fix their consumer side of things and provide more stability.

Paul Scrivens, CEO of 9rules asks What would you do if you were CEO of Technorati?

You know what. I’d fix the stability first off. And ignore some of these other side, blog monitoring tie-ins that seem to ignore the users of the site and focus on making money by data harvesting and tracking.
How about you?

Image Credit: Nikita Kashner

Originally posted on February 1, 2007 @ 10:09 pm

Are you tired of Snap Preview Anywhere popping up all over the Blogosphere like a plague? Well, don’t worry, 901am comes to your rescue with the following gem, hidden in the depths of Snap’s FAQ:

Snap Preview Anywhere Deactivation

Deactivation requires the use of cookie technology. If you should delete your cookies, please note that Snap Preview Anywhere will be re-activated for all sites automatically. Click here to disable Snap Preview Anywhere. Please note, you must refresh the affected pages or clear your cache for these changes to take effect.

via downloadsquad

Originally posted on February 3, 2007 @ 10:33 pm