Blogger still can't find my two biggest blogs
For those of you who have read my posts and struggles with Blogger on my blogs inexplicably disappearing, the news is grim. After essentially brushing me off at first, they finally restored ONE of four blogs, and it was the most recent one I created with only a few posts. Today I got word that no other blogs are registered to my email address and the url's simply don't exist in their database. (I knew that because "page not found" comes up when I type in the url.) So, my hundred or more posts (possibly 200 combined) are lost forever!
I am not trying to claim some literary genius - but one of my purposes to writing a blog in the first place was to be able to go back and see where my mind was at in times past. Journalling on paper or in Word on my computer just isn't quite the same, although I have done some of it.
There is a certain intrigue with the whole blogging thing - and the coolest thing about it is that others can come upon your blog and decide whether they like your content or not.
This is so discouraging. I don't want to be angry with blogger - it is really cool - but I just wonder if perhaps their recent "flag" had something to do with this and the judge and jury who decides if the offensive tags a blog gets are worthy of delisting or outright deletion. I suspect this isn't the case as I would think that they would notify the user of such an action - but who knows.
Not to say that my blogs were particularly controversial - but then again, my main blog was filled with my musings on god and religion - and being a "freethinker" or "unbeliever" could make me a target of the religious right or the conservatives (even though some of my views, such as on abortion, I agree with the conservatives, at least in part). I am not a paranoid type and doubt that the tagging/delisting/deletion took place intentionally on blogger's part. But, what I really suspect is that the person who helped me failed to even check the backups.
I went so far as to send her the url of the cached image of one of my previous blogs on google - but she insists that it doesn't now exist - she never really said if she checked the backup as I suggested.
So - chalk it up to a lesson. Backup your blog yourself - or host it on a server other than blogger.
In the end, I have about five posts from the cached google search and I do have a backup of the template and perhaps two or three other posts. It is really sad.
The funny thing is - here I am posting again - but at least I know now that it could just be a total waste of time until I get my own site.
I am not trying to claim some literary genius - but one of my purposes to writing a blog in the first place was to be able to go back and see where my mind was at in times past. Journalling on paper or in Word on my computer just isn't quite the same, although I have done some of it.
There is a certain intrigue with the whole blogging thing - and the coolest thing about it is that others can come upon your blog and decide whether they like your content or not.
This is so discouraging. I don't want to be angry with blogger - it is really cool - but I just wonder if perhaps their recent "flag" had something to do with this and the judge and jury who decides if the offensive tags a blog gets are worthy of delisting or outright deletion. I suspect this isn't the case as I would think that they would notify the user of such an action - but who knows.
Not to say that my blogs were particularly controversial - but then again, my main blog was filled with my musings on god and religion - and being a "freethinker" or "unbeliever" could make me a target of the religious right or the conservatives (even though some of my views, such as on abortion, I agree with the conservatives, at least in part). I am not a paranoid type and doubt that the tagging/delisting/deletion took place intentionally on blogger's part. But, what I really suspect is that the person who helped me failed to even check the backups.
I went so far as to send her the url of the cached image of one of my previous blogs on google - but she insists that it doesn't now exist - she never really said if she checked the backup as I suggested.
So - chalk it up to a lesson. Backup your blog yourself - or host it on a server other than blogger.
In the end, I have about five posts from the cached google search and I do have a backup of the template and perhaps two or three other posts. It is really sad.
The funny thing is - here I am posting again - but at least I know now that it could just be a total waste of time until I get my own site.
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