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I'm one of those people whose RSS feed isn't updating.
http://kinetic.seattle.wa.us/blogfeed.xml

More of a question, really: How does your aggregator differentiate between local and non-local content? Sometimes I see posts labeled local that aren't, and some that aren't that should be.

I figure it's an inexact science, and all, but I'm wondering what the system is.

Folkbum... That's been discussed at length here.

Short version: There's about 7000 keywords that we're tracking that tell us it's definitely local. (Counties, cities, mayors, statewide electeds, congressional reps and senators, etc.) It's far from perfect, and we're working on some new features to improve that. Stay tuned.

David: I've checked the Washington combined feed and your blog is coming through just fine. However, because of the way your blog is set up, the links don't often work.

I'll recommend that you ditch all the crazy frame stuff you've got going on in your design. Also, check your own RSS feed - it's often delivering bad URLs that don't lead to actual posts.

General thought: Every once in a while I come across a blog that's so badly designed or crammed with slow-loading Java widgets that sending readers there would be a disservice. Even if the content is good, if it's crashing browsers or impossible to read, we're going to reject it.

At some earlier time, we said this: Our first responsibility is to the readers of LeftyBlogs - not the bloggers. We'll do our damnedest to help the bloggers, but the readers come first.

Our feeds were coming through and posting just fine updating properly into local and non-local.

As of the most recent update all our posts seem to be gone.

What might be the cause?

As of the 9:04 update Our posts reappeared under not local and combined, but our local posts are still not displayed. Just checking if it might be a problem on our end.

my blog hasn't updated since saturday

David, looks like the system fixed itself.

Bill, there's something wrong with your feed at FeedBurner - it hasn't updated since Saturday.

One note for everybody: if your stuff isn't showing up - give it a few hours... sometimes there's an internet glitch out there that can cause your site's update to be delayed a few hours.

>because of the way your blog is set up,
>the links don't often work.

I've modified my feed to include new Permalinks, which I've verified. The old links were bad because of some weird thing with my rss editor. The primary link to the most recently updated entry, .../blog.html, opens inside a really simple frameset and is verified in MSIE and Firefox.

>David, looks like the system fixed itself.

I'm looking both in Combined and Not Local, and my feed hasn't updated since Sep. 21. Note that I verify my feed in Feedreader and Google Personalized Home Page. Not criticizing, I'm just sayin'.

David, every single link in your RSS goes to the same place.

<title>See me; feel me; indict me</title>
<link>http://kinetic.seattle.wa.us/nxtlevel/blog.html</link>

<title>Dear Leader by Kim Jong Il</title>
<link>http://kinetic.seattle.wa.us/nxtlevel/blog.html</link>

<title>"Quagmire is the new black, sweetie"</title>
<link>http://kinetic.seattle.wa.us/nxtlevel/blog.html</link>

Yes, it is the link to the most current entry. Is this the source of the update problem?

Your RSS should contain links to each of the entries at their permanent location. Take a look at the RSS for any other blog.

Otherwise, someone who reads your RSS and tries to go to a 10-day old post will wind up on your home page.

The URL for each blog post should be unique - that's what we use to index our database.

Question - what blogging software are you using that's doing this wrong? So far, yours is the only blog I've come across that doesn't do RSS right.

>someone who reads your RSS and tries to go
>to a 10-day old post will wind up on your
>home page.

At the moment I'm setting links to drive traffic to the main blog page. In the body of each feed entry there's a unique Permalink, which would show up if Leftyblogs published each rss entry in entirety (each of my rss entries is, usually, just an excerpt).

Now, for you I'd be happy to give each entry the Permalink, as you seem to want. But I was noticing that each entry in Leftyblogs has two links, as in:

Defending Progressive Values in Snohomish County
[Text]
WashBlog - 1:09 p.m.

The thing is, both links are always identical. Shouldn't the second one be to the main blog page?

OK, here ya go.
kinetic.seattle.wa.us/blogfeed.xml

each Item Link is now unique;
the Channel Title Link is my main blog URL.

Not sure if you have a problem with identifying local postings. This one, "I-912 Republican Flip-Flop Politics" at http://www.kirkdorffer.com/ontheroadto2008/2005/09/i-912-republican-flip-flop-politics.shtml is in the "not local" category, but it is definitely local.

I signed my blog up with your site about two months ago. However, I noticed that none of my posts are showing up on your site. Could this be an error with my RSS feed?

Thanks for this great service, Kari.

Just a heads up that your link to Unbossed is incorrect. It should be http://www.unbossed.com

Thanks!

Hey, we recently updated our website, but the aggragator doesnt seem to have picked it up.

Dean

my blog hasn't been updating for the last several days. Any suggestions?

In the words of Emily Latella, "nevermind..."

Hi, I was pleased to see my blog was added to leftyblogs but suddenly all my posts are gone. Could you add me again?

I'm in the Blogroll but my posts aren't feeding? Am I doing something wrong?

sorry -- i mis-keyed my url in the above

I've gotten a few posts listed, however, not all my posts are listed on this site. I assumed I did it all correct however a number of posts are missing.

Thanks for your prompt response a few days ago. I still don't know if there's anything i can do to make thinks better since not all of my posts are being listed on the home page. Thanks.

Posts from my blog don't always make it through. I'd say one in two make it over here. Is there anything I can do to make things more consistant?

More info: If your posts aren't showing up on LeftyBlogs.com, read this explanation. Any future "my posts aren't showing up!" comments and emails that don't reference this page will be ignored.

My blog posts were getting categorized as local, but are now being categorized as "non-local".

Since my blog covers one township in Cook County, virtually all of it should be categorized as local content.

For example the last dozen posts are about:
1. school board to fire superintendent
2. school board pres to announce for state rep
3. Wal-Mart and poor Blacks
4. a local radio call-in show
5. media coverage of the new teacher contract
6. liquor license for local Citgo
7. two communities litigating over ownership of National Guard facility
8. two local schools implementing national anti-obesity program
9. municipality using prostitution sting as shakedown
10. local gov't contractor subpoena'd
11. lawsuit by school board prez against me
12. hearing on cop being fired

All of these should have been classified as local with the possible exception of the Wal-Mart discussion. But your new algorithm is classifying all my stuff as "non-local".

If you want to cheat, just label all my content as local, because I don't write about national or international stuff on Proviso Probe.

I put your code into my blog a long time ago (like a month?) and still none of my posts come up on your blog. In fact, my blog isn't even listed on your blog. What gives?

In the Kansas area http://www.theantisam.com/feed/ is not updating.

This is a wordpress blog, but it did update originally. Most, if not all, of the posts include our senator's name (Brownback) so I would imagine they would make it past the filter.

re Virginia: looks like www.raisingkaine.com blog links have disappeared.

I signed up and chose "national" and now don't find me listed anywhere. internets. INTERNETS! ;)

Our national feed isn't up and running yet. We're still working out the details on that.

Great site!
This is related to a "my posts are not showing" but a little different. And I have gone to the linked page, http://www.leftyblogs.com/blog/2005/10/your_posts_not.html.
Basically for the North Carolina content. The local page from time to time will empty all but one sites posts. The rest of the posts, which were previously showing the local section, will at that point show only in the non-local section. The problem will usually correct itself the next time I look, but it is a little annoying to check the page have it be empty.

Thanks.

In the Idaho blog section, the Political Game is listed twice. Could you please fix this?

In addition to a number of sites not updating (Blogononymous hasn't been read in 18 hours), it appears as if there are problems with the way Atom feeds are being processed. Most of my posts update with no summary content, and posts that are obviously local in nature don't make it onto the CA local page. (I assume that BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit, would be considered a local CA topic.)

K.

This site is great, and so much potential. Thank you for listing our IL DFA site - http://www.democracyforillinois.org
2 questions...

1. How do we get added to the 'Democracy for...' listing or how do we know if we are there?

2. Are there RSS feeds for each group, like all local Illinois content?

Thank you,
William Maggos

You're welcome!

1. You've been added to the DF... area.

2. Nope - but you can add the BlogWire to your site:

http://www.leftyblogs.com/blog/2005/10/new_feature_the.html

That'll display the most recent 10-30 headlines from Illinois right there on your blog!

Can We get the Graphic Changed for the Porn Promo for MSNBC?

This is "Lefty" blogs right? We are supposed to respect women. I find the graphic offensive. They could use something else besides the outline of a naked, big busted woman to attract attention to their porn special. Hell, just the word PORN usually gets plenty of attention. Kari Chisolm, can we change the graphic?

Kankakee-- The graphic is changing daily. I suspect you're going to find that the whole point of the MSNBC ad campaign is to raise exactly the questions you're asking.

This is, btw, the biggest blog ad buy in history - with over 800 blogs in the mix.

Yeh, I know it's about the money and yep I understand that they are "making a point" by using the degrading graphics but it's hypocritical and I still find it offensive. I'm not a prude, hell I've got a few pics of women who chose to have themselves used as sexual fodder... but when I come to a website like leftyblogs, or Soapblox Chicago, a professed partisan Progressive blog, I expect a little more sensitivity for the women who are participants. Geez, the graphic this morning is even worse! SIGH...

Mine site appears to have not updated its feed here for almost two weeks.

http://www.intelligentdiscontent.com

Thanks for the site, and for looking into it.

Our posts show up in the blogwire with two "http:" headers, so the links don't work.

never mind. *sigh*

Hey guys,

I think there is a problem with the LeftyBlog wire. I've been getting reports from my readers that whenever they click on a link provided in the wire, that they are sent to Microsoft.com. I checked it out and confirmed it also. Can someone look into this as it seems like someone has screwed around with the code.

Thanks in advance

ctblogger
CONNECTICUTBlog

UPDATE:

I've looked into this link problem alittle more and it seems like the problem stems from the My Left Nutmeg link. There seems to be something worng whenever someone clicks on a post from that site from either the Blogwire or this site...

kari

i've set up the wire in my drupal site, but when i try to update i get this error:

Failed to parse RSS feed Lefty Blogs: invalid schema .

i copied it exactly & pasted it into the aggregator feed. boo hoo.

i don't really grok this whole rss thing; it's like way techy man, and so i could have futzed it up.

tia

Kari,

All of a sudden I'm getting this error message instead of the leftyblog Illinois feed on my kankakeekindling blog. kankakeevoices is working just fine. What should I do?

"Error! This site id (kankakeekindling) is no longer valid. Please sign up again with correct info."

PS to above. It's kankakeekindling.blogspot.com that is getting the error message.

NEVER MIND. I fixed it.

I think you may need to add "hickenlooper" to the "local content" filter. There are a number of posts in the Colorado section about NARAL courting Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to run for Governor in Colorado, but they are showing up as not local content.

Another good term (if you can limit it to Colorado) would be "Dobson", as James Dobson is behind the gay marriage ban we'll be fighting here in Colorado this year. Until the Alito hearings are over Dobson is likely to be brought up in posts about that topic, but post-hearings, at least in Colorado, I suspect it'll be all about the ban.

Does your aggregator pick up "Joe Courtney"? Since he's the Dem running against Simmons for congress, it should. I noticed that a post of CT Blue with Joe Courtney in the headline didn't get picked up.

Another Connecticut question. Just wondering if the name Lamont will be picked up by the aggregator. He's probably going to primary Joe Lieberman, so it should be. I noticed a CT Blue headlined "How Lamont Can Win" was not picked up.

My blog has been doing swimmingly, ever since I signed up with you guys (see below).

And then suddenly, nothing! All my posts were deleted.

Can you please tell me what's going on...?

Mimi

_________________________________________________

Today's most-clicked headlines
clicks time st headline blog
Fri 1:49 p.m. NY Seven Votes???? Simply Left Behind
Fri 12:46 p.m. VA Another Rant by Progressive Bloggers...Geez, I c... Howling Latina
Fri 12:04 p.m. WI John Gard's Bill Clinton moment What's Left
Fri 11:35 a.m. OH David Sirota - Fired For Dirty Campaigning Buckeye Senate Blog
Fri 1:23 p.m. GA So gay Simianbrain

Hey Kari,

My posts are picked up here (thanks!), but all I see is the title. What am I doing wrong? What do I have to do in order to have it display my opening paragraph like most other blogs?

If my paragraphs were being seen, my most recent post, which mentions Washington, Seattle, and Mt. Rainier (twice) in the first paragraph might make the "local content" cut.

For some reason, my posts haven't been submitted to the Wisconsin LeftyBlogs feed since Saturday. All the other members of the blogroll have been updated since then. The Atom feed url is http://milwaukee.blogspot.com/atom.xml if you would like to double check and make sure it is up to date.

Thanks much.

One of my posts called "NASCAR" is showing up in the side bar and on the feed as "nascar." The other ones seem to have the caps in the right place, so I don't know what's up with that.

Any post that has all-caps gets converted to all-lowercase. There are a handful of bloggers out there that use EXCLUSIVELY ALL CAPS FOR ALL OF THEIR HEADLINES... and that's really annoying. Unfortunately side effect of whacking single-word all acronym headlines.

My posts haven't been showing up since Saturday 1/21. I looked into all the usual causes: checked both Local and Combined, my feed seems to be working properly and my stuff is showing up on other syndication feeds (Findory, Kinja, Chordata)

Love your service; it's given me a lot of traffic and I've found several good sites.

John -- Looks like you helped us discover a new bug. Here's an explanation. We're working on it. Thanks!

Looks like the same bug is affecting my connection to "leftyblogs Maryland": my blogroll listing says "last refresh" was on Jan 21, but I've had several posts since then.

Kari,

This isn't so much a technical problem as a style problem. The BlogWire installed on my blog no problem, but there's a big unsightly gap between the header and the text.

Is there a way to fix this?

The problem is viewable at www.flickertailjournal.com - I think it's something to do with conflicting CSS, maybe, because the LeftyBlogs headers won't appear, only the one I put in manually.

My posts show up as headlines only, and none in the local list, although most are local content. This is a new problem.

My blog has never been updated here so I have switched over to feedburner now and hope this fixes things. My original feed (which should have worked) http://wactivist.com/rss now I am using the following:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/wactivist

testing the new spam blocker - pls ignore!

My blog, DC Metro Action, hasnt been updated for a few weeks now - yes, I checked the "all posts" tab.

NH blog "Blog Free or Die" has one post, which only contains the numeral 5.

It's listed as a NH blog, and has been for a month.

I'd also double check "Liberal Patriot" if I were you. I'm not really sure he is, in any way, a leftist.

Hi,

Over the last few days our posts appear properly, then on another update of lefty blogs the "local" posts won't appear at all while Headlines only continue to appear under "all posts". Then on a later update from lefty blogs, it'll all seem to be working fine.

Any ideas? Something on our end? Thanks!

If it helps, you can switch me from the Atom feed to the RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrewtownPolitico

Hey Kari,

Can you check our blog feed again? It's still not updating:

http://www.hcfama.org/blogrss.xml

Our blog is Health Care For All in Massachusetts

I geet get an OOPS whjen trying to give you our rss feed. It says you already have us...but we are not there.
Here is our feed:
http://www.democracyformo.com/d/rss.xml
This is a Drupal based Civicspace site.
Please help get it up and running.
Bill Monroe, DfMO

What happened!? All the Green Mountain Daily links just fell off the Vermont blogwire! HELP!

And they're all back now. Didn't do anything here -- just waited a bit.

When you see a problem, don't freak out, just give it an hour or two. LeftyBlogs is often self-healing.

Mostly, this is due to the vagaries of RSS, Atom, and the various feed formats. That, and weird internet belches that slow things down.

I've been learning a lot about how unreliable the net can be when you're trying to read and analyze 1300 blogs every 20 minutes. That's a massive amount of data.

(which, btw, makes me very impressed with google.)

>

Ah yes, but I'm very superstitious. I have little doubt that it was the actual act of posting a help message that caused them to re-appear. It's a cosmic thing. And sadly, I'm only half-kidding.

Hi There. This is local content. 'Wisconsin' in first sentence. Thanks

http://www.waxingamerica.com/2006/03/i_need_a_title.html

Hi there, waxing. What's your point? The post was up on the Wisconsin local feed at 7:15 a.m.

Neither of my feeds appear to be updating in the Wisconsin blogroll (I recently added the RSS feed since the Atom hasn't been updating since 1/21). The feeds for Brewtown Politico are:
http://milwaukee.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrewtownPolitico

aw c'mon... these two stories:

http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=67

http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=69

...i mean, ya don't get more local than those!

Thanks folks....you all are great. I bounce all over the state list and have a very eye opening experience every time. It's appreciated.

...uh, seriously though -- any chance of getting those on the list? especially the one entitled "The Explosion Over Chris Graff (UPDATED)" or http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=67 This is a local story that just keeps getting bigger, and there seems to be a ton of interest on the topic via LeftyBlogs. I want to be sure it gets seen, given that there's a big new development. Thanks.

http://www.waxingamerica.com/2006/03/ovadal_attacks_.html
Believe me, anything with Ovadal in the title could only be Wisconsin. Thanks.

Looks like Green Mountain Daily has been dropped off the Vermont blogwire for the last hour. Tried to wait a little longer before posting to see if it would come back, but its still off so I thought I should bring it to your attention.

Charlie Sykes is also Wisconsin local.
Thanks

http://www.waxingamerica.com/2006/03/charlie_sykes_c.html

Hi. The following article: Rainville, Domestic Spying, and the "Posse Comitatus" Loophole on Green Mountain Daily apparently did not get tagged on your Vermont keyword list as being local. It is very local, and is an attempt to get a conversation started, so I'm hoping you folks can include it. We get several hits from Lefty Blogs.

And I suggest that you add the names of prominent local pols to your keyword list for Vermont:
Rainville
Tarrant
Sanders
Welch
Shepard
Dunne
Tracy
Symington
Douglas
Dubie
Spaulding
Markowitz
Brock
Clavelle
Kiss
Pollina

Thanks a lot!

We haven't had any posts get picked up as "local" since Saturday. Has there been a change in the keywords or the logic? We are literally at the cusp of success at a long-sought after move for the Vermont Legislature to call on the US House to initiate impeachment hearings, and I hate to lose LeftyBlogs now. I suggested some keyword additions above, in the interest of trying to be helpful. Let me know if theres anything else I can do. Thanks.

My blog at http://swingstateohio.blogspot.com is no longer showing up in the Ohio section. It was showing up in both local and combined for a few days and now it is not. In fact, posts were even showing up a few hours ago.

Any ideas?

We just moved our blog over to a new server, and updated to the latest version of movable type...one of these two changed the location of the rss feed.

Here's the new feed:

http://www.opportunityforgeorgia.com/index.rdf

The RSS feed isn't working either. The Atom feed still hasn't updated since 1/21 for Brewtown Politico. Any update on this bug? Thanks for your help.

We just switched Raising Kaine over to SoapBlox, and now Lefty Blogs isn't picking us up. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Local content:
http://www.waxingamerica.com/2006/04/jessica_mcbride.html

thanks

http://www.waxingamerica.com/2006/04/jessica_mcbride_1.html

Just wanna make sure you got this verrrrrrry lcoal post.
Kari, thanks.

Paul

I can't manually review and move posts. After all, we're getting some 2500 posts a day. To help improve the local filter, go here:

http://www.leftyblogs.com/cgi-bin/addkeywords.cgi

I am no longer responding to any comments asking about moving stuff into the local area.

Hi all- weird glitch I just noticed. My posts from my blog are appearing, but the titles are not. I haven't changed anything that I'm doing on this end- and it was working fine before.

Michigan- "for my amusement only"- showing up as "untitled" on the feed.

Any idea what might be causing this?

titles -- working on it. thx.

Kari,

Opposite problem to wizardkitten: for some reason only my blog titles are displaying for my blog entries at LeftyBlogs. I have the regular blogspot generated Atom feed (http://www.kirkdorffer.com/ontheroadto2008/atom.xml) and a Feedburner generated RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/OnTheRoadTo2008) for you to work with. Both should be providing you with entry text to display.

Thanks.

It seems that our RSS feed isn't working.

Site - http://www.rifuture.org

Feed - http://www.rifuture.org/blog/wp-rss2.php

Thank you.

On the home page in the 24 hour listing, my blog's name appears but the headline does not...so noone can get to it. Also, on the state page, the preview of the post appears as normal, but again, the headline is not highlighted/hyperlinked. This has been going on for around three weeks, and I haven't done anything different.

my blog - dc metro action (http://dcinsideout.blogspot.com) has stopped appearing. feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DcMetroAction. is there something I need to do to make it reappear?

For weeks my blog has been showing up in the Massachusetts section just fine, but now every single post (even old ones that have up until now appeared just fine) have dissappeared. One of my posts right now is in the national top 5 clicked, but is no where on the Massachusetts page. This is where I get a ton of my traffic from, so I need to be back!! Is it because I mentioned Paul Wellstone in a Massachusetts blog? Does that screw with the filtering? Please Help!

Btw... my blog is http://www.jessekb.com and my rss feed is http://www.jessekb.com/blog/atom.xml

Ok, I admit that I now found my posts in the non-local combined section. Problem is, all of my posts "mention a city, a county, or a major elected official from your state" as you say in the explanation, yet they are no longer "flagged as local." So what gives.

Also, my favicon and post summaries aren't even appearing in the non-local section.

My Virginia blog posts have disappeared from "local only" but remain in Combined. This situation just occurred. Look at http://modernpatriot.blogspot.com/2006/04/efficacy-of-lie-and-politics-of.html and you'll see that the local keyword "Harris Miller" appears in the first line of the post. There are several other postings about Miller that have moved off local.

Has your Blogger blog disappeared - or slowed way down?

We're on it. More here.

Hello --

I read your "read this explanation" page -- and it doesn't seem to answer my question...

Washblog posts aren't showing up anymore on the Washington page. I think our rss feed is fine because our posts are showing up fine on Northwest Progressive Portal (http://www.nwprogressive.org/portal/).

And I know it's not a question of content not being local, as the right keywords are there -- and a post this morning from another blog referencing a Washblog piece -- all the the same keywords -- does show up.

Oh, I see above that you're on it -- But the "more here" link doesn't work!

What can we do?

Thanks!

Noemie

Hello Kari,

I have read the explanation page.

This site shows it was added to the Ohio Blogroll last Sunday, but as of yet no posts are showing up on lefty blogs.

The atom.xml appears to be working correctly.

Please advise.

Thank you for your great service provided through lefty blogs!

Dave

Posting which should appear in Virginia "local only" at http://www.leftyblogs.com/virginia/ -- isn't there.

Posting appears in error in Virginia "all posts" at http://www.leftyblogs.com/virginia/combined.html

Posting "Harris Miller thinks Wage Compression is good" at http://modernpatriot.blogspot.com/2006/05/harris-miller-thinks-wage-compression.html

"Harris Miller" in title and text is among the local content keywords

Dump Doolittle seems to have diappeared from Lefty Blogs. Can you check into this and let us know if we need to do something to correct this?

Thanks!

Dump Doolittle

Dump Doolittle appears to have made it back and we're glad to be back! Lot's going on in J-Doo Land. Sorry to have bugged ya.

my blog - DC Metro Action - hasn't updated in weeks.

It's RSS is here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DcMetroAction

thx

The rss feed wasn't working correctly but I found the bug. However, it hasn't gone back on lefty blogs yet. Help! Thanks

Periodic glitch has reappeared and updates have been spotty, non-existent, limited to headlines, or all shunted to non-local list for the last two days.

Please give it a look and a kick-start. Thanks

The atom feed for milwaukee.blogspot.com still hasn't updated since 1/21. I know other blogs are still affected by this. Is there an update on this bug? Appreciate all the work you guys are doing.

My feed has posted only one of my posts. Can you please help? I've scoured your site for any way to help myself but have been unable to find out anything that would seem to help me figure out what is wrong. My feed is an RSS 2.0 XML feed located here: http://www.seedingspartanburg.com/?feed=rss2

Thanks for any help you can offer.
Tammy

The anonymous blog on Maryland is clearly a right wing setup to make Democrats look foolish. The articles are ridiculous. For example the lead one blasts anyone who votes following the recommendations of the local teachers union. Another makes a baseless assertion of some unspecified vague incompetence for Montgomery County's normal practice of selling off abandoned cars that have been impounded. The person who maintains the blog is, understandably, anonymous and unreachable.

Unblockable, anonymous calls. What organization is funding the anonymous calls like the one made by computer to my home to refer me to this site?

There is no information provided to get off the list, no identification of who is making the call, and certainly no means provided to get off the list. It feels like a right wing effort to alienate liberal voters, or a very foolish effort by a liberal supporter who hasn't thought through what they are doing with the technology.

Intruding into people's homes by phone with no way of stopping the calls is a modern version of what we used to call "dirty tricks" in the Nixon days.

Yes, this is identified with my name and real address. Come out of the darkness and identify yourself like a mentch instead of acting like a cowardly and ignorant deceiver.

Looks like you haven't gotten anything from my Blogger atom feed since January 21.

http://cleveland_diary.blogspot.com/atom.xml

It seems to be working and I do get hits from a couple of aggregators like bloglines, but it's certainly possible that it's a Blogger screwup. Any feedback?

Why is it that when you update your blog with for example a new link, the changes aren't reflected in the lefty blogroll feed?

Reposting this over here on the theory someone might read it....

My blog seems to have disappeared completely from the Nevada blogs. My blog is created in typepad and the feed goes through feedburner. Typepad had a recent "upgrade" which allows some connection between feedburner and typepad. Could your crawlers have a problem with that?

Aha! I reverted to the old feed and a bazillion old posts suddenly show up! So when do you plan to fix the typepad--feedburner bug?

My feed changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Archpundit

Larry Handlin
ArchPundit.com
Illinois Blog

(Blog Saint Louis didn't change)

Hi,

My feed is http://christinebarry.com/feed/. It has not refreshed since the morning of Saturday, 7-1. However, Saturday morning is when I installed (spamkiller) Bad Behavior V 1.2.4 plug-in for WordPress. I did not have any trouble with any of my other feeds, but perhaps it broke the leftyblogs refresh? I don't know if that's the problem with the refresh, but it's the only change that I made, and I've never had any trouble before with the leftyblogs feed.

I did some searching on this but never found any reference to spamkillers messing with the leftyblogs service.

I deactivated the plug-in several hours ago, to see if this will fix the problem.

Thanks for the great service, by the way, leftyblogs has been a great way for me to find good blogs as well as get traffic to my own.

Christine

My feed is http://ibzp.net/pohlitics/files/rss.xml (or, if it'll work, the feedburner link is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Pohlitics), and the main URL is http://www.pohlitics.com.

A link to one of my posts has appeared in the LeftyBlogs BlogWire for the first time today, but when you click on it, the link takes you to some crazy URL hosted through .mac (a service I don't even subscribe to).

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!

Zack

Hi Kari,

I was just added, and I now know that the feed I gave you all doesn't work right... so feeds to my blog Marked Hoosier in Indiana can be by atom: http://markedhoosier.blogspot.com/atom.xml?bsuser=markedhoosier
or by feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MarkedHoosier.

Sorry for not giving you the right feed to begin with... I never really checked to see what worked and what didn't.

Mark

Hi, I posted here on July 4 because my site was not refreshing, and I removed what I thought may have caused the problem. The site refreshed a few hours after that. Since then my site only seems to refresh once every 30-48 hours. I have searched but cannot find any reason for this ... is there something I can do to fix this problem on my end? I know wordpress blogs may be slower to refresh, but I didn't have this problem before July 1. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with my feed. Is there something I can tweak? Can you (anyone!) advise? Thanks, Christine

My site hasn't refreshed since Wednesday morning. I've set up a feedburner account, maybe that will help?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Christinebarrycom

Thanks, Christine

Thanks for adding me. But did you have to add everything all at once. I would have rather had future posts placed on here, not everthing thats already on there. It looks like I just swamped your system with posts, and thats not true, also its posted oldest on top.

Again thanks for the add

Hello, my site refreshed Saturday night, but not since. I've upgraded my WP installation. I have no idea if this will help. Any advice is appreciated. thanks, Christine http://feeds.feedburner.com/Christinebarrycom

The Texas feed seems to be screwed up. I'm assuming there must be some code causing this in the last blog that showed up there, because the items normally in the right hand column are in the middle.

I just noticed that the New West Montana feed is serving up a very strange feed link. The link should be:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/newwest/city/missoula

Thanks!

I have posted four times today, and none of them have been picked up by LeftyBlogs. They aren't in local posts or in all posts. The first one was posted 12 hours ago.

Can you help?

my posts aren't updating...I recently switched to the beta program in blogspot.com...I thought the problem was solved but now it isn't...none of my stuff today wnet up even though I deleted hours later and re-uploaded...so...can you help?

you said to let you akno (after reading the stuff below) and this is the only way I know how to contact you....

Known issues:
* Some blogs have their feed in a file called "rss.xml". Some are Atom format, and some are RSS format. At the moment, the feed reader is struggling to differentiate between the two (yeah, we know, it's fixable) - so for the moment, we're manually flipping a switch. Let us know if you're one of 'em and your blog doesn't seem to be updating.

I also switched to blogspot BETA. The BETA has changed the feed from what Lefty blogs currently is using to

http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/18858638/posts/summary

which is now automatically generated at the end of the blog entries in a very inconspicuous place. Can Lefty blogs please update the feed?

Same problem as above. Switched to beta & now you are not updating posts.

Regarding Blogger's beta release, please read this.

I switched to he new BETA blogspot and now you are not updating my posts. I read the post regarding Blogger's beta release. So....why are you not updating my posts?

Hey there, I'm the blogger at johnbonifaz.com. My latest post, on election day registration, is in the combined feed for Massachusetts, but not local - even though the word "Massachusetts" is in the post itself (it's the start of a line of posts where I'm advocating for election day registration in Massachusetts and asking why we don't have it yet). So this isn't exactly a bug report, but I'm wondering why that post got tagged as non-local and what keywords you're using?

http://www.waxingamerica.com/2006/09/kathleen_falk_u.html

This post properly appeared earlier today under "local only" and while it still appears under "all posts" it is only the head and not the first couple of lines. It has the name of a prominent candidate for state wide office.
Thanks

Posts from knowthyneighbor.blogs.com haven't showed up for three months. They don't show up in "local only" or "all posts."

Doesn't seem to be any problem with our feed (typepad):

http://knowthyneighbor.blogs.com/home/index.rdf

RTM... still need help.

Local content posts that were showing up on the Nevada list yesterday have disappeared today. Post are still showing on the "all content" page. Is the problem on my end?

My blog isn't showing up at all, and I'm not in the non-local section. I'm in the blogroll, and it says that I have been refreshed as of 6:28AM, but also thinks not a single post has been read, please advise.

My blog is no longer showing up on the ticker. When loading the page, instead of the LB ticker it reads:

Error! This site id (thediamondmine.blogspot.com) is no longer valid. Please sign up again with correct info.

I did try signing up again, but it stated that I'm already signed up with the information submitted.

I submitted my blog several days ago - I was just writing to check on it's status. Thanks.

http://www.badpryce.org/blog/feed

My blog isn't showing up at all-my rss feed is good-

This URL not updating for two days now. http://fraudbusterbob.com
Wordpress of course.

I submitted our blog about two weeks ago. We are the official blog for the Seminole County Democrats in Florida. (www.seminoledemocrats.org)

I was checking on the progress. I know you guys are swamped--but if there is any problem PLEASE let me know. You guys are now in our BlogRoll--PS we get hundreds of hits per week, which is pretty good in a far-right county like Seminole.

http://seminoledemocrats.blogspot.com
http://seminoledemocrats.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Thanks and please shoot me an email to let us know....

PS--I HAVE read your explanation page

under the AZ section, someone on my team entered our feed in twice, so the syndication of AZ entries repeats every one of my posts. In the interest of fairness, can i remove one of the feeds?

For the life of me, I can't figure out to find out where my blog is listed. Please help.

Hey Kari,

I've been on LeftyBlogs for ages, yet *nothing* ever shows up from Peace Tree Farm. In fact, the count of posts on the Washington blogroll is blank, as if you've never seen anything at all from my feeds.

My three RSS feeds all seem to be working, and Daniel K's TopicHotlist finds my posts, so what am I doing wrong?

For the record, my feeds are:

http://peacetreefarm.org/index.php/weblog/rss_1.0/
http://peacetreefarm.org/index.php/weblog/rss_2.0/
http://peacetreefarm.org/index.php/weblog/rss_atom/

Our site articles were being carried in the Missouri area of Lefty Blogs...and now they have all disappeared. Was there an rss feed problem?
WHat gives. Let me know and I will try to fix it. Our host (FUitadnet) has been a little unreliable lately...was this expulsion due to site down time?
Bill

We are back!!!
Thank you very much for your prompt and kind assistance.
Bill Monroe, Democracy for Missouri

Our last few posts have not been updated in either the Iowa listings or the national listings. We have some specific Iowa content that should have kicked over to the Iowa listings. I have checked the RSS feed validator, and it says we have a valid feed for the blog.

My feed is: http://greeniniowa.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Well, it looks like several Blogger sites have updated in the past 12 hours. If you did something, thanks for checking into it so quickly. If you didn't do something to trigger this, you might want to look at how Blogger feeds are being routed in your system.

Thanks again for hosting this great site!

My local stuff is not showing up in the list at all. It seems to be happening since I "upgraded" to Blogger Beta. I have definite local content in these posts and...nuthin'.

Our site alternately known as DemocracyforMo.com and DemocracyforMissouri.org has had its posts to lefty blogs removed again. Is there a reason?

I'd like to report that I often get "Arch Pundit" when I click on a link that is supposed to go to "My Left Nutmeg". This has happened at least a dozen times over the last several weeks.

Here's an example - This is the description: Kind of Interesting, My Left Nutmeg, 3:32 a.m.

This is the link:
http://www.leftyblogs.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Archpundit/~3/41271070/014080.html

my blog (www.cwechblog.blogspot.com) doesnt seem to be updating into your list, I posted something 3 hours and 30 minutes ago and it hasnt come onto your feed list yet, in spite of several things posted since that time coming up.

There's a problem with how you all lst my blog. According to your system a post about the Louisiana Second district congessional race is NOT local content. You've been missing most of the local content in my blog for weeks and I'm irked. It keeps turning up as national content only and I'n at least 2/3 local content.

Greetings,

I have submitted my new collaborative blog last week to the Montana, but it has not been added yet. We have over 15 authors, most of which have blogs that are listed on lefty blogs (including my own) We are already getting over 200 unique visitors per day but need the exposure from lefty blogs. How long should this take?

http://montananetroots.com/

My posts on Blue Bexley (Ohio) appear to have stopped showing up on LeftyBlogs on 11/08, although there have been a number of posts since then, including one this morning. I have looked in both the local and combined lists, and have not found any of the last two week's worth of posts. I updated to the blogger beta last week, but the problem began well before then and the old feed is still updating regularly. Any idea what might be happening?

Hi there, I've noticed that the Labor Movement feed doesn't work. I post on labor issues fairly often, so it would be great to have something like the BlogWire for that to put on my site. I know LabourStart does that as well, but it would be cool to have just blog posts on the subject.

Well, you guys fixed my blog feed (Thank you!) but now it's kind of screwed up. Unlike the other peoples' blogs, mine just shows part of the title and has none of the content on the blogwire. Am I doing something wrong?

I hate to be a pain in the ASS!

It's been almost a week since I switched to beta blogger and my posts are not getting posted!

I tried to resubmit by blog as need but it wouldn't let me; it said it was already listed.

My RSS feed is http://howlinglatina.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Help!!!!!

I posted here in September hoping for a fix but our site is still not showing up and it has been 5 or 6 months now. Posts don't show up in "local only" or "all posts."

Our feed from typepad hasn't changed and we were showing up fine for several months. Here is our feed again:

http://knowthyneighbor.blogs.com/home/index.rdf

My feed has not been appearing in either the "local" or "all posts" sections, and the blogroll says the last refresh was several days ago.

Here's the feed: http://www.livefromsilvercity.com/?feed=rss2

In the last several days, my blog has been "on again, off again. That is it updates, then that post is gone a few hours later, then it sometimes appears as headline only, then it is back again. At the moment, a formerly (and clearly correctly)complete post appeared as local, now appears as only a headline on all Florida. Why?

The problem does not appear to be limited to this post.

Is this something I can help with? How?

Thanks.

Oh why, why, did I switched to beta blogger!

Folks, it's now going on two weeks and NONE of new posts are posting on lefty blogs. NONE!

Please help!!!!!

Again, Still, Yet . . . Last post "Terror Alert" appeared with amazing speed on FL local. The post appeared in it's normal "summary" form at 9:24 PM Wednesday (6:24 lefty blog time) . . . an amazingly fast update.
Alas this morning (Thursday)the post is totally gone from FL Local and reverted to headline only on FL statewide.
This has become a joke. Is there any hope of ever curing this problem?
AND NOW, though my name and email address was correctly "remembered" and there when I previewed the post, when I attempted to post the message, I was informed "name and email address are required." Remember me was now checked NO.

Don't see a place to communicate this so I'll add it here.

http://bryanin22.blogspot.com/

is no longer a Texas politics blog but might become a North Carolina Religious one.

I appreciate your site and its improvements although the problems with posts showing up or not still can occur.

Hi,

I run http://www.capitalviewpoint.com and I'm on the Michigan blogroll. When I update my blog, for some reason it seems to add my blog entry to the BlogWire twice -- once to http://www.capitalviewpoint.com/[URL of entry], and once to http://capitalviewpoint.com/[URL of entry]

I know that this isn't a problem with my raw RSS feed, because it only updates once per new post ( http://www.capitalviewpoint.com/rss.xml ). Is there some way I can fix this to point to just the entries on my site with the "www" in the URL?

Thanks!

-Nirmal

My feed is stalled out. Why? It works everywhere else.

My site moved from www.andrewwarner.org to andrewwwarner.cincinnatibeacon.com and now the feed is not working. The feed did not change though and is working everywhere else.

How is this fixed?

I have read "read this explanation" and it doesn't explain why my feed has stopped showing up.

The last update was November 14, and there have been a couple dozen posts since then. Nothing has changed with my feed, either.

If it's the problem with atom/rss thing, then I have a possible solution: we are now sending our feed through feedburner, and the new feedburner address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElohiGadugiJournal .

My post today in Washington Combined hasn't shown up in the last two updates. I also notice that preview text has been dropped from my last few posts (notice this for a number of other bloggers too)

Well now, that was a fast fix!

My feed isn't getting picked up. Also, like Mr_Blog above me, the preview text has been dropped.

Glad to see that my feed is being picked up (took me a while to find where I had posted the question) but I see that the preview text is not showing. And I still can't figure out what I am missing about getting the posts to show up in local. I tag them as local but they don't show there. Thanks!

For awhile, now, none of my posts are being picked up, regardless of local content or not. I have a feeling that my feed to you is not working. What do i do? I am not too bright at this stuff. Thanks.

Thanks for getting my feed straightened out :) I guess I need to work on the local keywords more.

Should I just give up? Yes I have read all of the explanations. Now what do I do? Is there something I can do to fix the feed problem at my end?

Why are the posts that are listed on the Michigan page often not the same as the ones that are on your blog wire on the blogs?

My blog feed (http://arizona.typepad.com/blog/index.rdf) isn't updating to your Arizona list anymore. Can't see why, could you look into it?

Hi there, Jeff from Washington State. I notice my headlines go through, but none of the text. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I recently changed my blog address and moved my blog (in its complete entirety, including old posts) to a new domain name (from www.onlinegreensboro.com/~matthillnc/ to www.interstateq.com). How do I get this changed on LeftyBlogs?

New name and address for SoapBlox/Chicago blog in Illinois. Praire State Blue - http://prairiestateblue.com

Thanks

Hi,

My RSS feed address changed. The new feed address for aTypical Joe is: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/atypicaljoe

Also, my blog is "aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural South." My focus is both NY & Georgia. I'm wondering if I could be added to the NY blogwire?

Thanks,
Joe

Hi Kari

Please check on the inclusion of our feed into Ohio.

It's been awhile since we submitted the feed.

THX!

Dave

I thought I did this right when I first submitted, but since my posts aren't showing up on the CA feed I decided to check into it, and lo and behold I screwed up.

For Black and Blue my feed link is:

http://gleic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

This works for my Google homepage, and hopefully will work here as well.

Thanks.

Hey there guys, I haven't seen any of my posts come up on the roll. I know I am posting about local contetn, and I post daily. My feeds are below. The first one is the new blogger feed, the second one is the Atom feed that I have submitted before, and the third is my feedburneer feed which would be fine with me to use here.

Thanks.

http://gleic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

http://gleic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

http://feeds.feedburner.com/blackandblue

We upgraded our blog from "old blogger" to "new blogger" today. I notice you have some kind of work-around setup for other blogs on "new blogger." I'm wondering if need to do the same for our site now as our feed doesn't seem to be coming through well.

Is there a way to make the blog links open in a new window?

You guys are doing great work. I wanted to know, though, why my Texas local postings show up on the Texas local list, but usually only for a day, two at most. It eventually goes over to the all posts list and at that point the hits usually stop coming in.

I switched to the new Blogger recently and I've just noticed that my posts aren't coming up here at all. Let me know what I can do to rectify this.

Thanks

I represent UDFL Blog from Minnesota. We have two entries for our old address (UDFL.blogspot.com), neither of which are going to continue to be used. I have submitted a request to add our blog at our new address. If you folks could remove the old entries, we would appreciate it greatly!

My blog is now posting to the ALL POSTS portion of the CA feed, but my posts are not making it to the LOCAL POSTS portion.

I blogged today about my congressman being a racist, but it only got to the all posts page.

I have been submitting keywords and trying to add those into my posts, but nothing seems to work. I haven't ever been able to get my posts to the local page.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hey, I want to add my blog, but you don't have a button for the Northern Mariana Islands or Saipan. What, you have something against territories?

my blog http://greendogdem.blogspot.com/ -has stopped too it has been updated since jan 16 06
(http://feeds.feedburner.com/GreenDogDem)

opps that should have been jan 16 2007 not 2006

I have a huge bug to report.

Mayor Sam's blog is a Conservative Republican blog, and should not be being promoted by Lefty Blogs.

Please remove this blog:
http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/

They are hateful vindictive trolls that parrot Republican talking points, and their entire blogroll contains Republican blogs, and nowhere on their site is the Lefty Blogs blogroll. This blog makes me sick everytime I see it pop up on the roll. The only reason they even submitted to the lefty blogs service seems to be because they have ten million ads on their site, which they can get more page views for if us lefties look at their site and comment on the trash they spew.

Please delete them.

Kari,

Feed stopped updating a couple of days after it started up.

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/members_rss/html

Hi - I think that LeftyBlogs may be having trouble with my blog Crablaw Maryland Weekly. Are you able to make use of this feed? Or this one? Can I help? Thankls very much in advance, I cannot find an email to send this to you. Best, Bruce Godfrey

Your list of 51 Iowa blogs says IowaVoters was last refreshed on Jan 5. My blog is active. Why this discrepancy?

A little trouble updating:

LeftyBlogs not updating my link today. I switched to new blogger, but understand this was fixed, But my link seems to be having a problem, still. :-/

Many thanks for all your work helping us out!

I really really need to contact you regarding one of the blogs on your blogroll for my state. It is not what you think it is.

Here's a link from my own blog for details:

http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=934

I'm uncomfortable posting this here, but I could find no contact information. Could you give me an email address here, or send me one?

A friend pointed me to your site. Great Idea!!!!

Just wanted to say hello.

I am A Broadcast Radio and TV Veteran for over 16 years.

I now Stream My Talk Show Worldwide.

Progressive Democrat

Jeff Alan Wolf Show
Monday's Through Friday's
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On The Head On Radio Network
www.HeadOnRadioNetwork.com

Keep up the good work!

Sincerely,

Jeff Alan Wolf

My site got redesigned and my meta index is changed. Now my link with you is broken. Not sure what happened but I'm still around. Let me know how I can reconnect. Thanks.

I don't see my blog at ALL, let alone any of my posts.. what's going on?

I read : http://www.leftyblogs.com/blog/2005/10/your_posts_not.html

My content is local, even showing up in the feed when I cross-posted at other blogs, but not from my own.

This is a typepad, not a blogger blog.

This has been going on for a couple months now with no self-resolution.

I tried adding the blog back in, but it is already in the database.

My blog is http://arizona.typepad.com

Please consider helping me out.

I've read the bug report, but my blog has not shown up on Lefty blogs - local content or all posts for TN -- in a very long time. I believe my feed is fine, and I tried resubmitting my blog, but it is already in the database.

Perhaps you can tell me what I need to change so that my blog does show up on LB other than in the state blogroll.

http://toaaw.typepad.com/toaaw

My blog is no longer affiliated with the Seminole Democratic Party of Florida so it is inappropriate for me to keep the name "Seminole County Democrats". Please revise it to its new name "The Seminole Democrat"

Thank you very much.

I changed from blogspot to wordpress at the first of the year. I used to show up but haven't since I've moved.
I was at newscoma.blogspot.com and moved to newscoma.wordpress.com
I'm sure it's something I've done (I'm in Tennessee) but I'm not quite sure what I've done.
I guess I'm needing some help.

CE, I've had the same problem.

Democracy for Vancouver is listed under your blogroll for Washington state but the feed is not working. Last year the blog switched from drupal to wordpress.

The current feed is http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/feed/

Not sure where to post this, but a blog called "The Treatment" has been added to the Arizona blogroll. The blog is nothing more than a list of sites in what looks like Japanese script, rather than a blog about Arizona politics. Is there any way for us to easily report or remove this sort of "spam" from the blog roll?

On the Montana feed, there is a website called New West, which has sub-sites for several of the cities in Montana (Missoula, Bozeman, West Yellowstone, etc). Every time that site posts anything, it goes on the Blogwire three times(one for each city's site). It is pretty annoying to see all of the other content on the wire blown away by one or two posts that eat up the whole thing. Can you consolidate this? I understand the site's authors may want that information to show up on the feed for each site, but having it in triplicate on the blogwire is very frustrating.

Kari,

If you page back to October 10, 2006, you'll see the last time I wondered why LeftyBlogs *never* seems to catch my feeds. I'm still wondering.

I know I'm not a prolific blogger, but other low-count blogs (even some that died a long time ago) display a count of their posts. Peace Tree Farm is *still* shown with a blank where its post-count should be.

I'm curious as to why "California" posts seem to be excluded from the "Top 50 Headlines This Week" list".

http://ourmichigan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

My Our Michigan was added to the Michigan list last week and the posts are not getting added to your site. I KNOW the feed works. What's up?

My post on the marches yesterday was initially under local and today, it's not. Do you know why that happened?

Lo

I don't know what to do to make it more local. Posts that I feel are just putting in names of newspapers, but aren't really local seem ok, but if you're local, local, because the names aren't as well known...I don't know, it seems weird.

http://bralessliving.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/dear-america-we%e2%80%99re-all-humans-air-kisses-los-angeles/

ON the Oklahoma page, there are a couple of entries from Women in Black OKC. They show in the list as from April, but it was April 2005!!! That blog hasn't been updated for 2 years (until just now, when I followed those links and found spam, then created a new post just to say we aren't active.)

If there's anyway to remove them from the feed, would probably avoid confusion.

Thanks for all you do.

Rene

I think these two following posts of mine should be under local

http://bralessliving.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/reporters-the-mayor%e2%80%99s-office-shouldn%e2%80%99t-pat-themselves-on-the-back-for-anything/

http://bralessliving.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/musings-la-river-clean-up/

I don't know exactly what is the criteria for posts in LA being local, possibly I will try to mention more movie stars...lol...

Lo

Hi! I was thrilled yesterday when I received an email saying my blog was added to your blogroll. (I'm still thrilled!)

Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue... and, yes, I've looked at both local and non-local and I've checked my feed.

The blogroll says it was last updated just a few hours ago, but I've no clue where the posts are. (There are no post numbers listed in the blogroll for it either.)

I'm using Movable Type with an atom feed... although I have a feedburner feed too if that works better. ???

Thanks again for adding our blog!

Not entirely a bug, Kari, but I couldn't find an obvious place anywhere else for this. The "Democratic Party of Milwaukee County" blog for Wisconsin seems to be taken over by a spambot, and it's spitting out porn spam all day.

Blog url: milwaukeedems.org

Thanks for all your great work, and I look forward to seeing the changes!

The Populist - http://thepopulistblog.com/ - is showing up on the Michigan BlogWire, and it's a D.C. blog.

Can you take it off?

Thanks!

The Texas Blue (http://www.thetexasblue.com , feed address http://www.thetexasblue.com/feed ) has not had a post indexed since about three weeks ago.

The first part of that is expected -- we had a feed problem on May 9, which made our feed go offline, and we didn't catch it for over a week. It has been fixed for a while, however, and we haven't had a post indexed ever since the problem.

And yes, I've read the post on this topic, and we've had quite a bit of local content in that time. (RSS feed, in case it matters.)

Thank you in advance for looking at this, and thank you very much for the service you provide.

In the Utah feed, the blog "Dynamic Range" is SO totally not a left leaning blog. It's run and authored by a GOP state Rep. who jumps on every bigoted, radical right agenda with a simple, hate filled glee.

Please, consider cutting his feed.

Thanks folks!

Jeff

Please remove my blog, http://www.bikeportland.org from the LeftyBlogs index.

I cover bike news. It is not political or "lefty" in any way.

Thanks.

I'm sorry if this isn't the right place for these comments, but the blog below from the Wisconsin feed doesn't appear to a left-leaning blog AT ALL. In the wire, they show up as the "Leaning Blue" blog, but the content is all pretty right wing, as is the blog roll. Just thought you'd want to look at it.

By the way, after reading through many of the complaints above, I thought you'd want to know that I've never had a single problem with my feed or my posts or anything related to Lefty Blogs. Not one. I think this is a great service. Keep up the good work!

http://themaskedblogger.wordpress.com/about/

I'm not exactly certain why my Florida blog-Talk to Me-was not accepted as a Lefty Blog, but I ask you review my blog again.

As a member of the Florida Progressive Coalition and a member of the thriving Florida Netroots, it seems a bit weird that my blog has been turned down for inclusion as a Lefty Blog.

Talk to Me covers local and state issues, particularly local politics...please reconsider inclusion.

Site Feed: http://www.floridatoday.com/blogs/talktome/atom.xml

URL:
http://www.floridatoday.com/blogs/talktome/

Blog:
Talk to Me

My blog posts initially show up as local posts for Minnesota. But after about a day, they vanish and can only be found on the "all posts" page. Meanwhile, other blog's posts that went up at approximately the same time on the local post page are still there.

What's going on?

Mike McIntee
Inside Minnesota Politics.

Missouri's posts are pretty messed up...listing by blog source rather than Chronologically. Right at the top of the list are posts that are over a year old. Completely destroys the usefulness of Lefty Blogs for Missouri.

My site isn't coming up in Colorado and I moved here permanently three weeks ago. Is it still listed with Florida? I can't find it. Please let me know.

www.outinleftfield.com

I have tried for months to add my blog from virginia. I keep getting the same message that I'll be added soon. What gives? My rss feed is:

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-6IqCKWAzfrLlzHFAL37elhA-?cq=1

Thanks for adding Talk to Me!

Thanks again for adding Talk to Me but it has not refreshed since Monday, 7/9...?

Site Feed: http://www.floridatoday.com/blogs/talktome/atom.xml

URL:
http://www.floridatoday.com/blogs/talktome/

Blog:
Talk to Me

Thanks, Sheree

Hi,

I just noticed that my site has 'refreshed' since Dec. 31-- the same day I joined. I'm not sure what is wrong. My feed works everywhere else as far as know. Perhaps this is relates to the 'atom/rss' switching problem I've seen mentioned?

Usually 'www.hells-handmaiden.com/feed' works just fine though if need be 'www.hells-handmaiden.com/wp-rss.php', 'www.hells-handmaiden.com/wp-rss2.php', or 'www.hells-handmaiden.com/wp-atom.php' can be used.

You have rejected me for reasons that I don't quite understand. THE DALLAS, TEXAS, TRIAL OF THE HOLY LAND FOUNDATION is about to begin. My blog is all about that (it has been about other things before, but I have changed it to be exclusively about the trial). There is NO OTHER SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRIAL (besides the lapdog American media) available. I hope you will reconsider.

Hi Kari,

Feed not updating for some reason.

Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ProgressohioMemberPosts

Not a bug, but when you click on Idaho blogroll and click on my blog link, A Seattleite in Idaho, you get an error page. I can't resubmit my blog info. What do you recommend I do?

My blog, "Justice is a fickle thing...," has been approved but apparently the feed isn't being picked up. Can you help?

Thanks!

I've moved the blog from Wordpress.com to my own host at:

http://peoplegetready.jockamofeenanay.com

LeftyBlogs.com still has my blog listed in the blogroll at Wordpress.com:

http://www.leftyblogs.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?http://peoplegetready.wordpress.com

Also, I've observed that a number of my posts don't make it to the local listings.

Hi Lefty Blogs-

I would like to remove my personal blog from the Michigan blogwire. (writing on progressive issues for a community blog now)

http://wizardkitten.blogspot.com/

"For My Amusement Only"

Well, I'm turning it back into "my amusement only" and don't really want the cat pictures showing up on the the blogwire. :-)

Thanks-

Kari, there's a Wisconsin blog that's been taken over by spammers:

http://thediamondmine.blogspot.com

Thanks!

I've been posting since late May but my blog has not yet been added to the bloglist. Is there quite a back-up of blogs ready to be listed?

Please remove

http://newport9.blogspot.com/

from the Rhode Island list. I don't know what happened, but it's really annoying on the BlogWire.

Thanks,
Matt

I have submitted my new blog feed (http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/rss.xml) repeatedly but my posts are still not showing up, so I have resorted to cross-posting everything at my old blog (http://ohio2006elections.blogspot.com). This is not a satisfactory situation, but I rely heavily on Lefty Blogs/Ohio, and I can't figure out who to contact you except by re-submitting my feed over and over!

Help!

It appears that my feed is not updating properly. I believe you are using http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/feed for me, which should be fine and should properly resolve to http://blog.vivianpaige.com/feed, which is where the feed changed over when I started domain mapping in January.

Please check this. Thanks!

Thanks for looking at this. I see it is updating properly and displaying properly.!

Can we get New West Boise removed from the Idaho blogroll? 98% of what is posted from them isn't about politics and it is clogging up the feeds. thank you.

For some reason my last few posts aren't showing up within the Texas blogs. Not sure what the cause may be.

Thank you for replying to my 8/17 post and saying that you would fix the problem. Unfortunately, my posts are still not showing up, and I am still cross-posting at my old location just to get my posts onto Lefty BLogs.

My old location is http://ohio2006elections.blogspot.com, my new location is http://www.ohiodailyblog.com.

My feeds for the new location are http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/atom.xml and http://www.ohiodailybloc.com/rss.xml. I have checked them and they both work.

My new location is in the lineup, but the posts are not appearing. Can you please fix this for me???

Thank you very, very much for your help.

Wow! This blog roll/ blog listing is totally screwed up. Does anybody actually check this posting board to note the problems we raise?

I've had 3 posts show up, period. Three. All at once a few weeks ago. None before, none after.

Yesterday there were 9 posts from someone's blog on the 'national review' all from a year ago.

Hellooooooooooooo

Does anybody actually check this posting board to note the problems we raise?

Yes, I check each report - and respond to many of them individually.

I'll check your feed, mudrake.

check mine too...

Michael Davis
Dallas Progress

My Pennsylvania blog is at http://lehighvalleyramblings.blogspot.com/.

Since last Friday, twelve posts have not appeared here. I've checked both "local" and "all" posts.

I appreciate the service provided by your aggregator, and even have your blogwire as part of my template. So I'd really appreciate if if you could find the time to diagnose the problem. Perhaps I've done something wrong.

Take care and thanks for your work here.

Dear People:

A few months back I was forced to shut down my blog, LeftIndependent blog, listed in the Pennsylvania directory due to a cyber-stalker who had hacking capabilities. I lost the right to that URL in the process. I have now opened a new replacement blog, A Left Independent, that is essentially the same blog run by the same person for the same reasons. Could you update your listings for the new URL and blog name.

THE NEW URL AND TITLE:
A Left Independent blog
http://aleftindependent.blogspot.com/

THIS BLOG NO LONGER EXIST:
LeftIndependent blog
leftindependent.blogspot.com/

Thanks.

Pat

Both "Democracy for Missouri" posts and "Show Me Progress" posts have disappeared off the Local Missouri blog roll. They are still in the "All" section there, but interestingly their icons are missing. Any reason behind this?
The latest Show Me Progress piece is very "local" on Congressman Hulshof refusal to meet with his constituents in MO 9th District.
Thanks.
Bill

My Pa. blog is at http://lehighvalleyramblings.blogspot.com/

The feed address is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/XtdF

In the end of August, I posted a comment to tell you none of my feeds is posting here at lefty. I have noticed this with a number of other excellent Pa. blogs, including Above Average Jane.

I loaded a blog ticker on my left sidebar that gives your site a lot of exposure. But there are other blog tickers like blognet that will include ALL the blogs subscribed.

I would prefer to keep your blog ticker. But I can't keep a blog ticker that doesn't even list the blog posts of most of the Pa. blogs subscribed and that doesn't list them on your site at all.

I have been patient with you. I would appreciate it if you could address this problem. If you can't, I will stop using your blog ticker and replace w/ blognet.

You seem to have dropped my feed.

Still no refresh since a week ago. I am on the R.I. feed.

www.ri12.blogspot.com

post feed: http://ri12.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Thanks for any help that you can offer.
Eileen

This is the actual working feed:

http://ri12.blogspot.com/atom.xml

The site is:

http://ri12.blogspot.com

Thanks. Sometimes I just hate computers. Hopefully this will do the trick!

Eileen

Jeesh! I'm all set now. The little men inside my computer just woke up, I guess.

Thanks!

Eileen

Following up my posts of 8/17 and 8/28, could you please check into why my feed is not beign picked up?

My blog is in the lineup, and I have read the page on "Why Aren't My Posts Showing Up?" and confirmed that my posts are not on the alternative page.

My blog is at http://www.ohiodailyblog.com and my feeds are at http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/rss.xml and http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/atom.xml. I have checked them and they both work.

Thank you very much for helping me with this.

- Jeff Coryell

I see my feed is messed up again, only showing the headline and no text. Can you look at it again?

Thanks!

Thank you for fixing it!

First off, thanks VERY much for creating and maintaining LeftyBlogs--it's an incredible resource!

I have read the "why aren't my posts showing up" doc and have checked the Colorado combined feed (repeatedly) and have only seen posts from http://cohousedems.typepad.com a couple of times since you added us to your blogroll. (And oddly, they were title-only posts--don't know if that portends anything or not.) I've had weird off again on again posts showing from my other blog -- http://andrewromanoff.blogspot.com --so I didn't think too much about it.

Until I looked at the blogroll where it shows 10 posts for cohousedems--even though I can't find any in the actual feed.

My feeds:

rss 2.0 -- http://cohousedems.typepad.com/my_weblog/rss.xml

rss 1.0 -- http://cohousedems.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf

atom -- http://cohousedems.typepad.com/my_weblog/atom.xml

Thanks again!
Louella

Hmm. . . my blogroll is appearing on my site, but the posts I've published do not show up in the list? I've checked other blogs just to be sure it isn't filtering content on my site from appearing in my roll. Not sure what's going on, can you see if dragonflyeye.net is showing up?

Recently several clearly Oregon posts of mine haven't shown up as local content. I put "Oregon" in the first few lines, along with "Measure 37." The posts are in the "all posts" section, just not the local section. They're from my HinesSight blog, dealing with Measure 37 and Measure 49.

You have a fraud in the KY blogs- KYprogress is a rightwing blog

But KY Progress isn't in our feed.... at least, I can't find it.

For some reason, only the title of my posts show up on the roll. What gives?

TampaBay Blue (was TampaBay Democrat) has not updated since August.

Our blog will still disappear for 24 hours at a time..sometimes longer. It is an RSS feed.

PLEASE UPDATE....UPDATE PLEASE...PLEASE UPDATE

Dear People I was forced to change the address and title of my blog back in August due to a hacker/cyber-stalker.

Leftyblogs still has my old URL and blog title listed which has since been used by some odd person in Japan.

WOULD YOU PLEASE UPDATE THE TITLE AND URL.

The NEW title and URL: A Left Independent http://aleftindependent.blogspot.com/

The OLD title and YRL Left Independent http://leftindependent.blogspot.com/

Hi!

We added COMIDA as a NY state keyword a while back, but a recent blog post of ours containing COMIDA didn't show up. Here's the link:

http://rochesterturning.com/2007/12/02/in-case-you-missed-it-weekly-round-up/

Thanks!

We converted to new (and almost improved) Blogger a few months ago. I checked all archives back through October and nothing seems to have fed into yo