Google Readers and Bloggers - Have you had this problem or am I the only one?
To Readers of Ruth Zachary Montage
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I checked it and it appears to be working.
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Google Blogger has decided to assign one email and url to
all of my blogs, with all kinds of negative implications. Blogger
recognizes my computer, and will open up the dashboard for only the url they
assigned, so that I cannot get into any previous blogs I would like to post new
information into.
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Unfortunately, the blog gmail and url they assigned to me, (without consulting me) was designed for a Church
organization, and not my personal use. I could try to start up similar blogs on
the one site I have access to, but how much more time do I want to invest in a
system that is this inept? (Eventually I did create new blogs on this Church blog site.)
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I gave a trusted friend my blog urls and gmail addresses,
and when she tried to open one of my blogs she could not access my blogs
either.
When she made an
attempt to get into my blog, the dashboard for her own blogs came
up, and of course when I go to any of my blogs via the URL > search engine,
the dashboard of the Chalice Arts blog appears, including the URL,
mixedmediart.blogspot.com
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I have spent several days trying
to contact Google, but have not been able to reach a real person.
Their method of informing
them of a problem, limits the blogger to only certain categories of problems, not those
that their own oversight has caused. Google wants to charge for asking a techie
question, and I will not sign over my credit card number for a blank check amount,
especially for a problem that Google created in the first place.
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It appears that I may not be able
to continue blogging. It is likely I will lose all the information I have previously
posted. This represents an investment of years of work- some of it as long ago as 2008. Also I have lost access to
the emails and urls previously linked to my blogs, along with addresses for my
email contacts.
UPDATE Feb. 10, 2014.
Well, Bloggers, I fear my attempts to remedy Google Blogger's incompetence, was an exercise in futility.
I have created four new blogs as a result of Google's Arbitrary decision to only allow one name and one blog Url. I was hopeful that doing this would work out. However, not only can I NOT tell my followers how to find me, but I cannot put a link into these new blogs so a reader can navigate from one blog to another, but my own Url takes me to a young blogger from Nova Scotia, who posted one blog in 2009. Delightful as her blog was, I am sure when a friend looking for my work hits my link they will be as surprised as I am each time I try to be directed to my own blog posts.
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I am Ruth Zachary, not Chalice Arts Coordinator.
UPDATE March 21, 2014, Some of this update was sent to Google Forum today. I am removing any details which may not be accurate from the above post with corrected information below.
I had four gmail accounts and blogs from 2008 until December 2013 and I cannot access any of
the gmail sites, including the ONE they left open.
Incidentally, the one Gmail they attached my blogs to was actually a church
blog, and not for my personal use. I did get into my Gmail today, not through any steps I can identify, but almost "magicaly" after I complained to the Google Forum.
I still cannot access my old blogs to add any new posts. When
people try to view my old blogs, they never see any new posts. I assume they
will lose interest.
When I tried creating new substitute blogs attached to
the new Url addresses, interested people can no longer find any of my blogs, old or new. Usually the Urls do not take the viewer to the new blogs.
I have been forced to start over from scratch. I have created
several new blogs which I can access, and where I can make new posts, but I am
not assured anyone can view those blogs even with the correct link.
But if a viewer does get to one of my new blogs, and leaves a
message, I still cannot reliably open my gmail to answer him or her.
Google also took away my Gmail e-lists when it changed to the one
email policy and I cannot contact interested parties about what has happened.
Google said their services were free, but the company appears to have offered its services to gain access to a lot of personal data to line their own pockets in the future.
I cannot get an answer from Google to solve the problems.
How can anyone sensibly invest time and energy with a company that would pull this bait
and switch?
I begin to see that I am
not the only person who has been damaged by Google’s arbitrary policy. I think
probably if people could network it would be possible to file a mass legal
class action suit against Google for the harm to their business and income. Ruth Zachary
UPDATE April 20, 2014
I am happy to report that two things have changed with my Google Blogs.
1. I am now able to access my gmail connected with my Blogspot Montage blog. I retrieved my elist from that email site. I can now try to inform those people that I have a new blog that is essentially about the same kind of art that was on the old blog.
2. Some of my new blogs are occasionally showing up on the Google Search Engine.
I still cannot get into the old blog sites, however, even to post a link to my new sites. Ruth Zachary.
