Blogger craps out, bloggers panic and Google's community leans in to help
A very good friend of mine likes to read my blogs on Medical Devices, Biotechnology and Bioengineering as I flamboyantly call it at http://chaaraka.blogspot.com .
She emailed me today asking "Did you take your blog down or is the FDA finally on to you?"
In case you never read my blogs before, they tend to be not so kind of our Government and the way it handles medical devices, Indians at airports and allows Republicans to exercise first amendment rights (okay, I didn't blog about that last bit, but who here disagrees?).
As a result, when I could not locate my blog and was informed tacitly by Google that visiting a blog that had been composed by a near-permanently financially insolvent Stanford alumnus who doesn't drink, smoke, use Adnonsense, or charge for consulting, resume reviews and whatever else...could potentially be harmful(!) I panicked... with a capital P.
After frantically emailing a whole bunch of folks begging for any help in restoring or just accessing my archives so that I can take my blogs elsewhere, I found out that a lot of people are very, very helpful - as many did forward my requests around. I am thankful to them first of all.
Then, I also found out why we all love and rely on Google so much. Through one of the community members (Thanks Again!) on the "Blogger Help Forum" I found out that this happened to a lot of bloggers around, and Google is making an effort to resolve the situation.
At this point all users need to do is to submit their affected blog address to a Google spreadsheet and Google/Blogger will take care of it at their end. Very nice!
All is well that may end well sooner than later. Here is the link to the forum if you wish to know more:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=7ad1d2f6e077ca6d&hl=en
Aside from being grateful to the community member and Google employees as well, I am both very pleasantly surprised at how much trust I have unconsciously put into the GOOGLE brand and also wary of it.
A great lesson learnt - no one is above risk! Nothing is above being backed up!!!
She emailed me today asking "Did you take your blog down or is the FDA finally on to you?"
In case you never read my blogs before, they tend to be not so kind of our Government and the way it handles medical devices, Indians at airports and allows Republicans to exercise first amendment rights (okay, I didn't blog about that last bit, but who here disagrees?).
As a result, when I could not locate my blog and was informed tacitly by Google that visiting a blog that had been composed by a near-permanently financially insolvent Stanford alumnus who doesn't drink, smoke, use Ad
After frantically emailing a whole bunch of folks begging for any help in restoring or just accessing my archives so that I can take my blogs elsewhere, I found out that a lot of people are very, very helpful - as many did forward my requests around. I am thankful to them first of all.
Then, I also found out why we all love and rely on Google so much. Through one of the community members (Thanks Again!) on the "Blogger Help Forum" I found out that this happened to a lot of bloggers around, and Google is making an effort to resolve the situation.
At this point all users need to do is to submit their affected blog address to a Google spreadsheet and Google/Blogger will take care of it at their end. Very nice!
All is well that may end well sooner than later. Here is the link to the forum if you wish to know more:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=7ad1d2f6e077ca6d&hl=en
Aside from being grateful to the community member and Google employees as well, I am both very pleasantly surprised at how much trust I have unconsciously put into the GOOGLE brand and also wary of it.
A great lesson learnt - no one is above risk! Nothing is above being backed up!!!
Labels: blogger, Google, google communities, google service, google support, malware in blogger
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