Friday, December 09, 2005

1874 Blogflu Virus

Yes, there is a pandemic of bloggers falling into the culverts of the information highway. Today I clicked on Northern Lutheran, Off Shore Fisherman, and Infinite Library and all are dead. At least, if you said you were taking a break in August and didn't come back, that's a pretty strong message by mid-December, don't you think? Kind of suspicious too, because I think they were all Christians based on my subject arrangement. It's really tricky to lose a blogger. When Lutheran in a Tipi folded her tent, someone scooped up her URL, so when I didn't get her removed in a timely fashion, I was misleading some of my faithful readers. PJ had a great cooking blog and must have choked on something--she reappears once in awhile in my comment box. Of course, she actually earns a living writing. Six figures. Shoe of Librarians Happen truly has been ill (no joke here) and is no longer posting there, but I see her occasionally at LISNews. Babs was on the critical list, missing for a month, but now has her 2 year old posting for her. Ambra is as good as gone. Rosabelle hasn't posted a word since mid-November. And Murray hasn't posted a thing since January in "Brain Drain." I guess it was.

9 comments:

Anvilcloud said...

You're still here! You haven't been showing up on my RSS feeds lately, so I checked in to see if you ahd mentioned going on holidays.

Anvilcloud said...

I'm back. The last feed I have for you is 1836 -- Nov 27, I believe -- A Favorite Cookbook?

Anvilcloud said...

So, here's another thing. Medscape is blocking my messages form getting through to you. Both these comments and a separate email from me, apparently, got bounced by Medscape.

Norma said...

It's probably all those fancy things you've put on your template. It's throwing out folks? But they're really cute. I haven't changed my security settings on Medscape.

Anvilcloud said...

It only looks fancy, but there's no bizarre there; the basic coding is all Blogger's. I am having no problems with anyone else's site. I am getting their feeds and not getting any bounces.

Anvilcloud said...

nothing bizarre *g*

Norma said...

Medscape is supposed to alert me when I have a comment, and see these 6 comments are not listed, nor are comments on 2 of my other blogs. So something is messed up with that system. I don't know why the RSS feed isn't working. I'll e-mail blogger--should hear back in a few months.

Anvilcloud said...

Sometimes, in a effort to reduce spam, companies begin doing funny things with email. Maybe they haven't whitelisted Blogger and Gmail. After all, nobody much has ever heard of those outfits.

Norma said...

Murray, you are truly the most subtle old friend I know. Enjoy the golf in Florida.