The Real Blogger Status

After several long days, it looks like Blogger has indeed restored their service . We’re nearly back to normal — you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored. As indicated, some comments and posts are still being restored.

A few bloggers in Nepal are reporting inability to access Blog*Spot blogs. We have a problem rollup in Blogger Help Forum , where the problem is being explored. If you are affected by this outage, please confirm your location, the name of your ISP, and the scope of the outage . If you're able to provide details about your outage, you can help Blogger Engineers to focus on the problem - and not on speculations.

A few bloggers in South Korea are complaining of inability to access any Blog*Spot blogs. When reporting the problem, please include a PathPing lo g (if you can) or a TraceRoute log , targeting bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com . For right now, please use a proxy server to access all Blog*Spot blogs. >> According to one blogger , the South Korean presidential elections are prompting this action by the South Korean government . >> Forum thread links: bX-*00072 >> Copy this tag: bX-*00072 >> Top

During the course of the 17th Communist Party Congress, look for censorship of Chinese access to BlogSpot.Com, and similar web sites, to continue. In Why China shut down 18,401 websites , The Christian Science Monitor, September 2007, reported The Chinese authorities are in the midst of an unusually harsh crackdown on the Internet, closing tens of thousands of websites that had allowed visitors to post their opinions, according to bloggers and Internet monitors in China. To remind the citizens that they are being watched, the government has animated characters Jingjing and Chacha performing. We don't want to get shut down so we shut down anything that could be offensive. says one Chinese ISP employee. Our upstream provider [the company that owns the servers] told us verbally there should be no commentary, no blogs , no bulletin board services, because the government is going bananas. If Chinese bloggers continue to complain of lack of access to their BlogSpot blogs, expect for thi...