Parish Notice.

by Anna Raccoon on May 13, 2011

I understand that Blogger is still down – which for a Libertarian blogosphere, the day before the Rally Against Debt, is disappointing and unfortunate.

If anybody has posts prepared on the subject of the Rally Against Debt, e-mail them to me on annaraccoon2010@gmail.com, and we will publish them here under your name, as fast as possible – usual terms and conditions apply.

The Libertarian movement doesn’t have union coaches or unlimited funds to rally support for this initiative, and at the moment, it only seems to have the service of blogs on WordPress.

To find that the voices of those who don’t want to see our grandchildren in debt have been silenced is beyond belief.

{ 16 comments }

1 tangentreality May 13, 2011 at 10:22

Odd – mine hasn’t gone down, and I’m with Blogger. Perhaps I’m not on the censor’s radar…

2 Span Ows May 13, 2011 at 12:25: It’s “read only” tangentreality. If you try to write a post you’ll just get the (still active at 12:23 BST) an not available blogger message.

As JuliaM mentions there has been an “outrage” and all posts and comments made since wednesday aren’t visible.

latest news here:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=7b6d0384a4f5fa00&hl=en
3 Angry Exile May 13, 2011 at 15:09: TR, you’re less affected by this read only mode Blogger seems stuck in because you’re using Intense Debate for comments rather than Blogger’s own comment system. I’ve just tried posting ID comments both as me and as a guest and it works fine. Actual blog posts are another matter – if you can still blog at the moment or make any alterations to your blog’s design you’re a very lucky blogger.

4 woodsy42 May 13, 2011 at 10:32

The blogs are still there on the web tangent, but I can’t read or leave comments at any Blogger hosted blog nor can I add to or edit my own blog.
It went wrong for me early last week, came back briefly on about Tuesday (I think it was), but now has failed again giving an error code or an ‘unavailable’ message.
As my blog is a minor vanity outlet fo my irritation rather than hosting inside political or social info and the first fault happened while I was in France it seems unlikely I would be targetted by censors.

5 Dick Puddlecote May 13, 2011 at 10:59

Good idea, Anna. I was planning to put a short puffer piece for Rally Against Debt to encourage attendance but it’s nothing your readers won’t hear from you anyway.

Very frustrating, though, as you say.

6 JuliaM May 13, 2011 at 12:15

Blogger came back yesterday – early afternoon and was OK this morning, though you couldn’t read comments or access Dashboard.

They then did something that rolled everything back to Wednesday…

7 Span Ows May 13, 2011 at 12:27

Gordon Brown has been in las Vegas, I wonder if that was close enough to Silicon Valley for his curse to have affected Blogger and hence many Rally Against Debt bloggers! Well done Anna for inviting guest posts.

8 Lorenzo May 13, 2011 at 13:57: Will Gordon be taking over the microphone from where Elvis left off.

9 Richard B May 13, 2011 at 13:58

Mine went down yesterday – first the comments wouldn’t appear, then I got the ‘service not available’ message and a link to a Blogger status page – which was ‘not available’. Hmmm. I’m off for the weekend at a rally and I was going to do some blogging from there, but it seems I now might have to drink beer instead. Every cloud, ect.

10 backwoodsman May 13, 2011 at 14:04

Never mind, I’m sure we’ll be hearing all about the Rally Against Debt, from our public service broadcaster, the one we are all meant to contribute to . Surely there can’t be anything more in the public interest than reducing drbt, can there ?
Hello , BBc, is anyone there ?

11 Not a Sponger May 13, 2011 at 14:29