September 23, 2004
Wingers hijack progressive Florida Politics blog
UPDATE - Another missive from FP, this one via
Flablog:
Last week, when I began having problems posting to my web site, Florida Politics, I advised Blogger of the problem via e-mail. It has been a week, and I have yet to receive a response (understandable enough, they're busy folks).Imagine my surprise this afternoon when I went to Florida Politics (to use some of the links) and found another site in its place.
I can still access the Blogger site (my password and username work), but, as has been the case for the past week, I can't post. I just dropped another e-mail to Blogger, and hope to have the issue resolved soon.
In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that I have no intention of abandoning the Florida Politics site, and will resume as soon as I can figure out what happened. I regret that some of the folks who regularly visit the site will assume I have stopped blogging.
Whatever anyone can do to spread the word as to what has happened will be much appreciated.
If anyone has any suggestions or comments, please contact me at "flagov@lycos.com".
Thanks,
F.P.
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Florida Politics, an indispensable sight for a slightly progressive take on Florida political news, has been taken over by a bunch of wingers. Here's an update from the real author.
Thanks for the e-mail.
I have been unable to post since last week. I e-mailed Blogger and they said my site had exceeded the size limit, which makes no sense. In the meantime, this new site showed up out of nowhere (and a bunch of wingers, to boot). . . I e-mailed Blogger about the hostile takeover, and am awaiting a response. I don't know what to do until Blogger straightens it out.
It is frustrating because the folks who are regular readers don't know what the heck is going on.
I am trying to get to the bottom of it. Thanks for the concern.
FP
Can any Blogger savvy people help to get to the bottom of this?
The sight in question is flapolitics.blogspot.com
As of now, some of the archive links that I have still work: Florida Politics archive. As you can see, the sight has changed for the worse.
Posted by Norwood at September 23, 2004 06:58 PMThe reason Blogger bombed and Evan Williams sold to Google is because (the only way he could save his dot com Master of the Unverse ass) he fucked his users over. These people got fed up with him and they went to Movable Type, Typepad, etc. Now if this was Atrios or Tony Pierce he would respond ASAP. Hell, he sends his big boys free Pyra merchandise (like they really want that shit). Evhead, probably shit himself when he lost Glenn Reynolds.
The lousy service was suppose to stop when Blogger was bought by Google. Now I'm on Diaryland and that has over 1 million user and is run by only one man (Andrew Smales). Now how come my emails to him are answered ASAP and Pyra has Google backing them with several staff member; yet they have done zip for Florida Politics.
Posted by: Michael Hussey at September 27, 2004 08:24 PM