Great Blogger Outage of 2007! AskTheAdmin is Down – So you are probably not...

Google's Blogger/Blogspot is down for the count. Ask the admin is there to make sure everyone stays informed, considering all of Blogger's status blogs are down as well

Chinese Turn To Japanese For Online Porn

"Much ado has been made over China's constant efforts to protect its citizens from the nefarious influence of free flowing Internet information. Falun Gong, Wikipedia, Reporters Without Borders, BBC News, any reference to June 4, 1989, Taiwan independence or a free Tibet are...

Google's Blogspot Contains 75% Spam

75% of blogs on Google's blogspot.com are spam - this was the conclusion of a survey conducted by the WebmasterWorld. It showed that some of the top sites providing free space for bloggers are sometimes exclusively spam.

Blogger Beta

"So I tried to set up my blog under the New Blogger Beta and everytime I do I can't get in. So WTF is the problem. Well communications of course because nowhere does Blogger tell me this little vital piece of information....."

Speed up Firefox!

Browse the web faster. What does FireTune do? According to your specific computer speed and internet connection speed, FireTune will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance. FireTune does NOT modify the Firefox executable, or any other Firefox...

You Can't Read This In India

"Some ISPs overcautiously blocked entire domains such as Google’s www.blogspot.com rather than the sub-domains that they had been instructed to block, Maheshwari said. Indian bloggers were thus denied access to a large number of blogs on these and other domains, he added."

Circumventing Blog Blocking

"Is your blog blocked in India, Pakistan, Iran or China?   If Yes then you can still access your blog anytime using inblogs free Blog Gateway."

Skype to be banned too?

"BlogSpot isn’t the only one to fall. According to this article in the Hindu BusinessLine, The ISP Association of India is urging DoT to ban Skype and related voice messengers:"

Indian Web users decry the "gag" on blogs

"Throughout Monday, angry customers of almost all major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country exchanged mails and flooded user group sites with postings to report that blogs, created using the free space provided by Web services like Geocities, Typepad and Blogspot...

Blogs Inaccessible in India

"Blogs hosted by blogspot, typepad and some websites have been inaccessible in India for the past couple of days. We talk to Amit Agarwal, Neha Viswanathan, Jace and Suresh Ramasubramanian to find more about how and why this happened. The first inkling that these sites were...

Inept censorship won't work

"A couple of years ago, the government of India decided to ban a Yahoo newsgroup allegedly run by Naga insurgents. In the process, all Yahoo newsgroups were inadvertently blocked, leading to a furore among internet users in India. After about a week, matters were rectified,...

Blogspot.com being blocked by some Indian ISPs?

"At Mridula's suggestion, I called up the Spectranet's Call Centre in Delhi, and their agent told me that the Ministry of Communications had indeed sent a letter asking them to block the blogspot.com sites. He was unaware of the reasons behind this move. So, blogspot-blocking...