Further to my recent post blogspot.com.au, all UK Blogger users will be pleased to hear that their url's have been changed from ...blogspot.com to ...blogspot.co.uk as of not very long ago.
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Saturday 17 March 2012
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What with that and the WordPress Commenting Kerfuffle, it's all change in blogging at the moment!
JM, I think I'll just go down with the ship, rather than fight for a place on a lifeboat only to watch that sink even faster.
How else will they cens(oops) selectively filter access for the benefit or their users and readers
Another thing that has changed is that whereas before, clicking on the "COMMENTS" tag brought up a new tab (well, at least in my browser it did), now it changes the original tab to showing only that post, with comments below.
W42, that is the theory, whether it's the real reason i don't know.
B, no, I changed that, go over to Pavlov's Cat for explanation why.
I've changed too, but my canonical url is still blogspot.com though. Maybe it's a legal thing to do with different jurisdictions.
I've also spotted this morning that the little pencil icon to edit your posts from the main blog page has been removed.
AKj, what's "canonical"? Yes, if you type in "com" instead of "co.uk" you are redirected to the same page, is that what it means?
C, I haven't seen the little pencil thing for a couple of days, shame, it was very handy.
if you type in myblog.blogspot.com/ncr
you get back to the good old blogspot.com page with the proper links and the little pencil and so on.
ncr = no country redirect
Excellent, thanks for that.
The .co.uk redirect also changes the appearance of the page and makes the text smaller.
Would regionalising be a way of limiting damage in e.g. libel actions?
Or allowing individual governments to control the content of blogs?
CI, thanks (how on earth did you work that out?)
C, looks the same to me.
S, C, that's what some people think (such as Leg-Iron and Dick Puddlecote). Seems quite plausible to me.
MW
I'm not a closet techie!! I came across it by chance link he gives.
Hmm... Don't know what happened there. Probably I can't do html code.
MW
I'm not a closet techie!! I came across it by chance here.
There might be more useful info at the link he gives.
Ci, useful stuff. The funny thing is, having typed ncr once, it now just shows .com and not .co.uk. So thanks again.
all of my Facebook likes are now gone! great!
L, sorry to hear that. I did set up a Facebook account, and i appear to be a member of lots of groups and so on, but I didn't realise you had to "like" things, so I guess I'm not affected.
My browser window shows
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.se/
For reference, it looks like there's no change to the underlying serving site: if you "dig markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk" from a handy command line, you'll see it's a CNAME (pointer) onto Google's blogspot.l.google.com servers, and markwadsworth.blogspot.com, .se etc. all point to the same machines. The Blogger help pages give more detail, including the /ncr trick.
http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2402711
We now return you to your regular homicidal bovine programming.
P, yes, the extension depends more on where you are viewing it from rather than where the blog writer is situated.
Hopper, useful link. So it is indeed about censorship. Fair enough.
What can you do if somebody sets up a fake blog in your name, even using your name as part of the webpage address?
JG, absolutely nothing, as far as I am aware, your name isn't trademark protected or anything.
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