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Friday, March 17, 2006
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY While I've been too busy most of this week to post anything, I have been noticed that Google's Blogger software has been acting up elsewhere, particularly if you try to visit a particular blogger's profile. But I didn't realize that some people were having problems like this. Betsy Newmark, a B+-lister who was once profiled in the Washington Post has had her website jacked. She's sent e-mails to Instapundit and Michelle Malkin about it, and someone has found it in a cache (ironically, Google's) and re-posted as much as he could find, but that puts the wrong things right.  Frankly, Blogger/Blogspot has had problems off and on for years. Scheduled site maintenance I can put up with, but unexplained outages I cannot. I've tried to excuse the spotty service by considering that Blogger runs the most-used service, and it's free. I've been all but ready to move the Washington Canard to another domain on another platform for several months now, but the No more. If I risk losing my account to a hacker, pirate or some miscreant with a romantic name that he or she probably shouldn't be allowed to apply to him or herself, then I'm gone. Not this weekend... but soon. I don't know if Ms. Newmark's troubles will lead to the kind of attention-getting crisis that Jeff Jarvis' "Dell Hell" campaign did — partly because she isn't nearly as ornery — but I dare say it should. And Google, while I still have good things to say about your web search and e-mail services, but I think that, however inadvertantly, you are being evil. P.S. — It would of course be the height of irony if the Washington Canard disappeared after this post went up. Fingers crossed... UPDATE — Betsy's Page seems to exist again. Apparently they didn't just lose her site and let some moron hijack it and were unreachable and opaque in their public relations... they also hesitated to give her account back. Sounds like the fru-eets of the dev-eel to me. |
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