The Real Blogger Status

In mid 20th century USA culture, one popular magazine had a mascot, Alfred E. Neuman , who was best known for the intellectually incurious What, me worry? As the comment spam filters are being trained , by blog owners such as you or me "voting" each individual comment as spam or not spam, we are starting to see modern day Alfreds asking in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken What, me spam? or given slightly longer and more descriptive quotes Why are my comments treated as spam by Blogger? Harsh though this may be, your comments are treated as spam, by Blogger, because either Many blog owners have "voted" your comments, posted to their blogs, to be spam. Many blog owners have "voted" similar comments, posted by spammers, to their blogs, to be spam. The bottom line here is that your style of comments just are not welcome, on these blogs. You have 3 possible courses of action. Continue to post these comments to these blogs. Post these comments to o...

Jerry (we will call him that, since we don't know his real life name) loves monster trucks. Jerry drives a monster truck, he goes to monster truck shows, and he publishes a blog about monster trucks. One of Jerry's friends is Sam (no, we don't know Sam's real life name either). Sam publishes another blog about monster trucks. Recently, Sam's blog about monster trucks was locked, for suspected spam hosting , by the Blogger anti-spam classification process.

Recently, Blogger announced exciting new changes coming , in Blogger. This week, we are seeing signs of the confusion. What's the "New Blogger", that everyone is talking about? We see these questions, periodically. Every year, there is some type of "New Blogger". When Blogger releases another "New Blogger", everybody talks about "New Blogger" as if it was something completely rewritten, and obviously different from "Old Blogger". Remember that, at any time "Old Blogger" was "New Blogger" just the previous year, and was being fixed - as "Blogger" - just the previous week. Does anybody remember "New Coke", in 1985 ? People who liked "Coke" (aka "Old" Coke) and hated "Pepsi" (aka "New" Coke) kept and shared notes of where they could find stores still selling "Coke", and would drive miles to find "Coke". This was, obviously, long...

Some blog owners spend hours pouring over the activity records, Blogger Stats display, and / or visitor logs for their blogs. Sometimes, they see unexplained details which cause needless worry. I clicked on a link in Stats, that referenced activity from "opensocial.googleusercontent.com", and got "Page not found". Is somebody hacking my blog? and What is "opensocial.googleusercontent.com"? I see that URL a lot, in my visitor logs! Fortunately, this is a slightly less mysterious and sinister story. Take a look at the Following community on your blog, or any other blog that interests you. See the icons, of the Followers? Click on one, and watch the contents of the browser status display (generally, the lower left border of the browser window), closely. As the large white popup window opens up, in the middle of your browser, you'll see "opensocial.googleusercontent.com" mentioned in the status display, briefly. The popup window, with t...

Recently, we're seeing quite a few owners of "adult content" and private blogs reporting problems with their Stats displays. Blogger Stats are no longer counting! and On my Stats display, the pageview counts have not changed since this morning!! and Stats aren't loading, for my blog! These reports are coming from owners of various blogs which have an Interstitial Warning display in front of their blogs - either because the blog is subject to an "Adult Content" warning , or because the blog is published privately . The Interstitial Warning has been known for other instances of interference with visitor information . We have a rollup discussion in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, where this problem is being explored, in detail. From what we can tell, this problem started sometime late 3/26 Pacific time. >> Top

Several blog owners, today, have reported that recently published posts containing photos show a blank space, or a tiny box, where some photo thumbnails should be displayed, when the blog posts are displayed in the browser. When using various browser analytical tools, such as the Firefox "Page Info" wizard, the thumbnails in question appear to be downloaded properly to the browser cache - they simply are not showing up, in the blog display. Examination of HTML code, for the problem photos, in Post Editor "Edit HTML" mode, reveals odd snippets of code. Here's code from one reported problem. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfEGyjXnQUKhhQNXdJXzKsKVdaXKX7cwSXca4e4n3koMMr0XJ5V6tM2vv167L6lO-eN_slKc7L4XL4EGvfVGqp9KxOfzpy5pjkoomo93HZUmYv4uEcJOEECFiRDZfBv9xqVkfdA/s1600/IMG_2598.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="0" ...

The problem with DigiTurk, Turkish ISPs, and the Turkish courts has dragged on for several months now - and many Turkish blog owners are impatient. We see evidence of the impatience , weekly. People advised me to change my IP to 74.125.93.121 but how do we do that? This is a technical "solution" that won't work, consistently and reliably - and that will only degrade access to other blogs, worldwide (not only in Turkey), when used. Custom domain DNS setups need to use righteous addresses . Use of half ass "solutions" will only degrade service for owners and readers of blogs published to other domains , and will not provide a permanent solution for Turkish blog owners. >> Top