Cyber Imprints

The message says, "Ang Blogger ay kasalukuyang hindi magagamit." (Blogger is currently unavailable)

I had a scheduled post yesterday for my persona-travel blog but I can't post it because of the problem in Blogger. I don't know what caused the crash but this is the second time I experienced it with Blogger. The first time is when comments went missing.

During the course of the crash, all blogs on Blogger platform are on read-only status. No one is allowed to put new blog post and no one is allowed to place new comments. Some of the new posts where temporarily removed. Some comments went missing too.

When I visited my blogs today, I observed that everything is back to normal. Well, that should be the case based on what the latest update from Blogger says:

We’ve started restoring the posts that were temporarily removed and expect Blogger to be back to normal soon.

I do hope that all my blog posts and the comments on my blogs were all restored. I will have a hard time checking if some of them are missing.

I do hope that Blogger improve their system to prevent this kind of crashes in the future.

I read an article from Inquirer Sunday Magazine about a gang of bloggers who takes advantage of blogging and their online influence to get perks from establishments, specifically restaurant.

The writer of the article interviewed a restaurant owner/manager and revealed the modus operandi of these bad bloggers. According to the restaurant owner/manager: bad blogger came in to their restaurant, ate like a regular customer and left. After some days, a positive review of their restaurant was posted on bad blogger's site. Then someone called the owner/manager on the phone and asked for payment for the positive review of their restaurant. The owner/manager refused to give in to the caller's demands. On the following day, bad blogger returned to the restaurant, ate like a regular customer and left. After that, a negative review about the restaurant was posted on bad blogger's site. At the end of the Inquirer article, the owner/manager admitted that the incident made him afraid of all blogger.

Though I sympathize with the restaurant owner/manager, I disagree to his fear of bloggers. Not all bloggers are like that extorting bad blogger. There are many bloggers out there who write about the restaurants they had dined in and they write honestly without asking for any reward. I, for instance, write about the food I tasted and restaurant I dined in. I write based on what I experienced and without malice and I know that there many bloggers like me who write without malice.

However, bloggers like Bad Blogger should not be tolerated because they destroy the image of good and honest bloggers. Blogging's prominence is rising in the Philippines and it seems like evil persons are using their new found influence to extort money and other things.

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