The Real Blogger Status

I'm a great believer in cyberspace, and it's use in everyday life. I browse, I chat in online forums, and I chat using Instant Messengers (3 of those). I couldn't do without cyberspace, ever. But sometimes, I like to go places physically, maybe to a restaurant, so I can taste some of the food that I read about during my online activities. And so it is with Following, which is a sort of cyber-cyberspace community. You can setup relationships with other folks blogs, and theirs with yours (backlinked through your profile), and you can view their blogs using Google Reader. But I like to use my browser occasionally, to view a blog as it's designed to be viewed - through a browser, not through a newsfeed reader.

On Sept 30, 2008, Kelly Wilson of AOL announced to AOL Journals Users - United States We're sorry to inform you that on Oct. 31, 2008, AOL® Journals will be shut down permanently. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Blogger has now created an automated tool for importing from AOL Journals to Blogger. The tool, described in Blogger Help: Importing your blog from AOL Journals to Blogger , sounds fairly intuitive and linear. To help with any possible problems, they have also created a Google Group: Blogger-Help-AOL Import . A bit of bother will be experienced by those with private journals . You'll have to make the journal public, before you can start the migration. And as AOL Journals works right now, taking a journal from private to public will cause deletion of comments made while it was private. This is a matter that bears correction. Note: Do you already have a Blogger blog? If you do, just transfer your Journal and make a new blog, then merge...

Like many Blogger blogs that publish to a Google Custom Domain , all blogs in Nitecruzr Dot Net were off the network last night. The good news is that Blogger Employee Dana, proactively, published an announcement at 23:46 September 30 . Some users are seeing their custom domain blogs forwarding to www.google.com We are aware of this problem and are working to resolve this issue immediately. This is a major improvement from malfunctions of this magnitude, and as the problem apparently started around 23:00, this is particularly significant. The following morning, during the process of re establishing all aliases in the domain, I encountered a couple of old (yes) friends (not) Another blog is already hosted at this address and 404 Server Not Found Some custom domain blogs came back with no problems - others didn't. If you have a blog that didn't, you'll likely see one of the above symptoms. If you see Another blog is already hosted at this address then recycle the domain set...