[blogger lockdown] day 3

There's a blog here which let's you cut through the c--p with contacting Blogger/Google but they don't make it easy. As the guy says:

Having some issue and want to contact Blogger Support directly? Wait a minute pal, it’s not that easy. Many important reporting forms are hidden somewhere inside a maze called Blogger Help. If you lucky, you might find some, after going here and there, turn left and right, back and forth, up and down, etc.

To those people kind enough to suggest they'd contact Blogger on my behalf, about this lockdown, I really don't know what to suggest. The link above might work. Either way, Blogger are less than impressive in the way they deal with clients.

Meanwhile



Still in the experimental stages, the new blog is being constructed but as it is more than a blog this time, it is taking a fair bit of work. It is a different url and even that is being changed from day to day, things added, things subtracted, new themes found, new databases.

The transfer of Blogger files continues - there are many - and all that remains is to thank you for your help and offers of help, turning bewilderment into a clear idea where this thing is headed. This will be the last of these lockdown posts until it's actually resolved now.

Update Tuesday, 0912, our time

Right, they've lifted the lockdown without a word of apology and turned what were reasonably kindly feelings towards Blogger into a resentment of the way they organize themselves and pursue these policies. They need to look long and hard at their bots and what can be done to someone's site and piece of mind.

Do they seriously want sustainable blogs on their hosting service, do they want people who use the blog to write or do they want the Myspace Kid? If Blogger aspires to anything higher, and they seem to be doing so with their innovations, compared to three years ago, then the whole systemic mentality has to change.

That's all I have to say on that matter.