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September 01, 2003

BLOGSPOTTERS BEWARE!

To all bloggers using BlogSpot: Discovered via Shobha (via Anand) - BE AWARE of "a mega-site of Bible, Christian and religious information" masquerading ever-so-subtly-cleverly as your blog site. For example - click on the following links to see what I mean: bq. Visit ScaryDuck - the famous (so famous that I file it under 'pretentious') blog page at:
http://www.scaryduck.blogpsot.com/
bq. Or how about the famous Annie Mole's London Underground weblog at:
http://london-underground.blogpsot.com/
bq. Or even the sound-bloke Diamond Geezer - font of all knowledge and infuriating puzzles blog at:
http://diamondgeezer.blogpsot.com/
Did you BlogSpot the difference?

Posted by jag at September 1, 2003 05:12 PM

Comments

hmm, it smacks of deception in a subtle sort of way. How very un-... hmmm...

Posted by: Lisa at September 1, 2003 09:20 PM

holy? (I bet that's what you were about to "un-") !

Posted by: Jag at September 1, 2003 09:32 PM

That stinks. So do they think poor typists will make easy converts? With strategies like this they're going to piss more people off than they'll 'save'. I hope Blogspot can do anything about it.

Posted by: Stu at September 2, 2003 11:16 PM

I'm actually quite glad that:

a) I started off on blogspot so my blogspot blog already exists so they can't take it over.
b) I'm not an a-list blogger so they wouldn't actually *bother* to pretend to be me ;o)

Posted by: Pewari at September 3, 2003 12:54 PM

what's really weird is that I created one yesterday, out of boredom at work, and today they already had it as "http://maisondencre.blogpsot.com". They surely must have access to the blogger.com database to be so quick at spotted them ?

Posted by: stephane at September 4, 2003 04:07 PM

Actually - I think it's a default "catch-all" - i.e. anything.blogpost.com will redirect to the Bible resource site. Clever eh?

Posted by: Jag at September 4, 2003 05:01 PM

Pretentious? Moi?

Posted by: Scaryduck at September 4, 2003 07:17 PM

OK - so perhaps 'pretentious' is not the best choice of word - but you can try to get my jist by clicking "EXPLANATIONS" in my left-hand side-bar.

And perhaps I should be priveleged to have you drop by :0 !?

Posted by: Jag at September 4, 2003 09:08 PM

You should update your explanation of me ... I'm not a Croydon mum any more .. *sniffle*

Posted by: Pewari at September 5, 2003 02:13 PM

salam
pmodvaram salamat bashid
tammanna daram bande ra dar jame khod gharar dahiid plz

Posted by: mehdi at October 15, 2003 04:21 PM

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