mikel.org still using the blo.gs update service? Since Yahoo! took over I have noticed some strange problems, and I wonder if anyone else has noticed them. First, every so often blo.gs refreshes and the site names with apostophes are rendered incorrectly using escape codes. Also, and more importantly, I see a lot of “ghost” updates, by which I mean a site listed that has not really updated. I know that it happens spontaneously, because it lists my site as having been updated when nothing has changed.
Can anyone shed any light on what’s going on?
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I still use it to track secondary blogs, and have noticed a fair amount of ghost updates as well. At first, I thought it was something the site authors were doing to get more traffic, but now I think the service is just not working properly. No idea why, though.
I wrote more here:
http://bilodeau.blogspot.com/2005/09/blogs-ghost-updates.html