The Real Blogger Status

Spammers protect their content against "unfair" deletion, and provide uninterrupted service to their "customers", by publishing multiple blogs, in spam blog farms . Owners of better designed spam blog farms minimise the risk to their blogs, by separating the hacking / porn / spam content (Payload), from the immediately visible Blogger blogs (Collector). Spammers use a tiered structure of blogs, in their blog farms. Collector blogs. Distributor blogs. Payload blogs. Only the Payload blogs contain easily identified hacking / porn / spam material - and only the Collector blogs are immediately visible to the abuse detection processes.

Many bloggers are totally unaware of how many different domains make up the Blogger and Google address space. Daily, we see passionate yet vague problem reports My Followers gadget doesn't show any pictures. The links in my Navbar don't do anything when you click on them. I can't publish a post - the buttons don't work (aren't there in the toolbar). The feed gadgets on my blog don't update. Each of these complaints, phrased as they are, result in part from bloggers who don't understand how many addresses (domains) Blogger and Google use, in providing us the ability to publish and maintain our blogs, and in providing our readers with the ability to view and to enjoy our blogs. Most of us are aware of the dual nature of Blogger / BlogSpot , hopefully when we setup and maintain security settings in our browser . Blogger contains the code ("scripts") that lets us setup and maintain our blogs. We will have to trust Blogger, since it contains the code t...

Earlier, I wrote about a triune relationship which affects your access to your blog . That issue is of direct interest to you mainly if you produce a blog hosted on Google servers, but not in "xxxxxxx.blogspot.com", aka a Custom Domain blog. If you're not publishing to a custom domain, that issue still affects you, but indirectly. But there's another trinity that affects you directly, if you publish any Blogger blog. That's the triune nature of Blogger, with respect to your browser. The code for your blog, ie the posts, template, and widgets, on the Blogger server. The Blogger scripts, on your computer. The cookies, on your computer. Your browser uses all 3 elements of this trinity, constantly, in helping you maintain your blog, and in letting you and your readers view your blog. When Blogger makes a change to their databases, they likewise produce changes that affect the content of all 3. Unfortunately, Blogger can't control all 3 effectively. Why can...

The power and majesty of the trinity has been a part of mankind for years, before the Internet. From religion (the Christian nature of the supreme being - The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost), to properly robust systems, using triple redundancy (as in Robert Heinlein's science fiction - "I now tell you, three times, to do this!"), the number three has always had almost mystical significance. And with your web site, there is a trinity too. You are using, and may be paying (directly or indirectly) for 3 different services. Registration . DNS Hosting . Content Hosting .