Blogger problems update

By Libby

Following up on yesterday's Blogger lockout, it appears that the problem was wide-spread and not confined to one category of blogs, so it wasn't that you were posting any particular content. However, the lockdown does remind me this morning about the importance of internet neutrality. If we lose it, this sort of thing could happen all the time and it could easily be content related.

Anyway, most of you should be unlocked by now but there's a new problem that affects the whole system. No one can open any Blogger blog in IE. Avedon figured out that it was a sitemeter issue. If you remove your sitemeter code from the template, it seems to solve it.

Good reason to switch to Firefox as your browser but in the interim, for those who can't give up their IE, I removed the sitemeter from The Impolitic until Blogger figures out what they broke when they fixed the lockdown.

Update: This is amusing. A lot of rightwing blogs were also affected and shockingly, immediately blamed the vast left-wing conspiracy and/or Obama supporters.

Comments

[Don Surber]

Good advice. I use Opera. The assumption by some righties that it was a Google plot against conservatives was silly. It's computers. Crap happens. Try not to take it personal.

[Libby]

Don, I think it's human nature to suspect a plot first. I know I wondered if it was something we wrote until I found out how widespread it was.

Still a good reason to fight for internet neutrality. This is what it would look like without it.

[Ron Beasley]

Appears to be a problem with all blogs using sitemeter not just blogger. Not a problem with Firefox, Opera or Safari. I can't seem to log into typepad with Firefox although I had no trouble in Opera or Safari. Very strange!!!!

[Libby]

Interesting Ron. I have IE and Firefox browsers opened so I didn't try logging into typepad through Firefox since my bookmarks are all in the IE browser, which is the only reason I still use that one. I'm going to go test that right now.

[singleton]

I suspect blogger just went crazy with their spam blocking code, (mine got hit too) and it is reasonable that people check other sites they know and find them down and suspect blogger is targeting them. The reason more on the right had the problem is that more conservatives get their own free blogger blogs rather than just getting a diary on Daily Kos or Huffington.

But Libby is right this is a a good reason to fight for internet neutrality.

[Libby]

Actually Don, I think everybody got hit hard, not just poli-blogs on either side of the fence.

Ron, I got distracted but I was able to log into typepad with Firefox just fine.

[Ron Beasley]

I am now able to log in in Firefox. I had a corrupted cookie which I deleted.