- What's with the different country extensions showing up? I'm finding blogs that I know are based in the USA showing up with ".ca" on the end.
- Anyone else getting a lot of what appears to be Eastern European spam comments showing up? The Spam bot appears to be gearing up to be the next Tolstoy given the length of the spam message.
- I've given Blogger a ton of sh*t over the changes, but it appears that a good portion of the issue comes from being relegated to older browsers in certain applications (*cough*). Running it in the latest iteration of Firefox on Windows 7 actually works pretty well.
- I sure wish they'd fix the blogroll glitch, though - there's a bunch of new blogs I want to add to my blogroll, but can't, because it won't save. I guess at some point I should go through and delete all defunct blogs.
- In a related issue, I'm keeping the blogs from folks who have passed on in my blogroll, especially for bloggers I've met.
That is all.
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If they are blogger blogs, then it all depends on the home country of the original visitor. Google load-balances visits, and sends users to country-specific TLDs (top-level domains).
So, if the user is in Canada, and goes to someblog.blogspot.com, they will get redirected instead to someblog.blogspot.ca.
You will then see the link coming from .ca instead of .com, even the blogger is in the US, and on the .com TLD.
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Merlin
The country codes also allows blogger to censor per that country's guidelines.
It's idiotic, but makes the user find a proxy.
After recent business trips to Brazil and S Korea, it took me a while to purge or modify all the new bookmarks of their country-fudged extensions. Damn annoying, all right.
About the blogroll problem: I've been able to update mine without any trouble. Just make sure that you save the update window first, then save the overall 'Layout' window as well. After that, the update should show up next time you display your blog (or refresh the old display). However, if you don't save both windows, the update won't 'take'.
Peter, the problem appears to be an upper limit on the number of blogs.
Maybe sort out the deceased and defunct blogs into their own list(s) like with the boggers you've met list. Mthat ought to free up a little space.
Jay, do what North did on the Black list. He added another blogroll to the template and added additional blogs on it. Just put it under your current blogroll and you should be golden.
Like Mark said, I think it's some kind of limit on the blogroll.
I split mine into Daily reads/updates and the others that I don't read, or they don't update daily--or they're new blogs....
Also, websense and other filtering software block a lot of .com gun and political blogs. Using .ca or .co.uk gets around the filter.
Lotsa Tolstoyesque War&Paece length Russki/EasternEuro showing up *IN* the SPAM bucket at my place after I ditched the word verification.
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