Campaign Follies.

The New York Times blog asks who is responsible for the shutting down of a number of anti-Obama PUMA blogs.

Google says it isn't the "flag" function that is the problem:

If so, that would be an embarrassment for Google. On its Web page explaining the “flag” feature, Google says that “it can’t be manipulated by angry mobs. Political dissent? Incendiary opinions? Just plain crazy? Bring it on.”

On Monday, Google would not explicitly rebut the idea that it had been tricked but said that the cause of the temporary blockage appeared to be elsewhere. “It appears that our anti-spam filters caused some Blogger accounts to be blocked from creating new posts,” Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich said in a statement. “While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the ‘Just Say No Deal’ network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam. We have restored posting rights to the affected blogs, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression.”

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Wesley Clark should have kept his big mouth shut.

Criticizing McCain's military experience is about as bad as making racist remarks about Obama.

You just don't do it. It isn't done.
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Blogger Follies.

Blogger, meaning Google, had BETTER get on the stick about this spam issue. In fact, the spam or flag function should simply be deleted or disabled, and anybody who has complaints simply email Blogger.

The locking out of several PUMA blogs on Blogspot has caused many to think there is a coordinated effort by Obama supporters to suppress dissent. This should not be allowed.

I for one do not want to move this blog, with around 34,000 posts and millions of words since December of 2002, over to WordPress or to my own hosting service. I have a WordPress blog, but there are already some bugs there with uploading images.