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Although FCDC post on Schadenfreude watch, Virginia 5th CD is one of the most clicked on stories, it does not show on the Virginia home page. None of FCDC does, and this is a very local blog.

Also, as of today GOTV blog is not showing up. Now I have been posting some about non-local issues, but GOTV is a very local blog.

Hi, Kari, I was just told about your site and naturally signed my blog up.

About the scanning of the RSS syndication for local content...had you considered using Technorati's "tags" system? This way, if we each posted a "yourstatenamehere" tag in our posts, it would winnow down the number of feeds you guys would have to read thru. I post probably five or six posts a day, and maybe 20% are local politics, and another 60% are politics at a national level that I try to tie into local politics as I can.

actor212--- rest assured, we don't read all the posts manually. it's an automated system. I think it needs to be an automated filtering system - otherwise, we'd have to rely on blog authors to tag their posts.... which they won't/don't/can't all do.

I'm one of those who are not seeing anything. Will be taking the "lefty blogs" button off the my blog unless I can figure that it's really a part of things here.

Do enjoy reading everyone's else's posts though.

I've signed up and have been accepted (Maryland, newsrack blog). Now I'm curious how to get the "# clicks" thing to work for my posts. I know people are visiting via leftyblogs, so "no visits" isn't the explanation.

From what I can tell this one did not make it. It is all Wisconsin. Was my error not using "Wisconsin' in the intro?

http://www.waxingamerica.com/2006/01/a.html

Thanks for your terrific service! One question. I noticed that most of the blog entries contain the first paragraph or so of the blog. For some reason CT Blue entries have only a headline, no text. Can you tell me why?

Mary... Take a look at the RSS feed. No content.

http://homepage.mac.com/johnwirzbicki/iblog/CTBlue/rss.xml

Hi,

My blog: www.topofmyhead.info is showing as not updating since 12-14. I have updated numerous times since then. My feed address is: www.topofmyhead.info/atom.xml I took a look at it tonight and it looks okay to me.

Can you check on this and get back to me?

My posts appear as headline only, and none are listed as local, although most of them are

Still having same problem. It's been about a week now

Hello... I have a blog in the Massachusetts section called "Health Care For All". The blogroll says that my blog has not been updated since last Thursday while in fact it has been updated many times... can you please check on this? This is a very important time for us and leftyblogs generates traffic for us. Thank you thank you thank you!

Hello....thanks for getting our new blog up so quickly. One question, though -- there are a few local stories that, according to your keyword based logic -- should be showing up on the local stories list. Specifically, they are http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=34 -- Update on Emergency Contraception, http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=31 -- National Issue Comes Home, and http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=30 -- Democrats get a rare do-over... will they use it?. I'm pretty sure there are others, but these are the most recent. Is there something I can do in my posts to make sure this goes to the local list, or is it possible your local-keyword-list for Vermont is not up to date? Thanks.

So if we are listed (ie we have seen an email or hit from your "acepted" link on a site meter) on your site and we don't see us on the site...are we really listed anywhere?

Thanks

-dcc

If you're in, you'll be listed your state's blogroll. (Well, about 20 minutes after I've accepted your blog.)

Sorry to be a bother, but since I was added to the blog roll on Thursday, none of my posts have shown up on either the local or the non-local content, even though some very much should be considered local. I was wondering if there's usually a time delay with a new blog like that? The RSS feed appears to be in working order?

This post does not show up as local content. It has "Jensen' in the headline and the first line. With his trial almost done, all of the Jensen posts have been showing up as local content. I can't figure out what went wrong here.
http://www.waxingamerica.com/2006/03/jensen_didnt_kn.html
Thanks,
PRS

Paul - that's fixed.

Okay, my posts get updated and then they don't. There was an issue with my feed, but I've fixed it. Why aren't my posts appearing?

thanks!

Julie

I'm having some trouble with posts not showing up today? 'Tried republishing. Some posts came up on Local that really should have been "national" and others that are truly local aren't showing up? What to do?

This whole debugging thing is going to be lots more effective if you tell me what your blog is - and, what state it's in.

We're up over 1300 blogs now, so tracking you down can be a challenge.

Kari: For some reason, all my posts have been relegated to the combined portion of the Massachusetts site--but they're all local, with the exception of one on George W. Bush. Can you help me out?

Thanks,
Adam

Hey Kari. I am having trouble getting my posts up on the blog. My feed is working fine, I just looked at it. Yesterday my stuff was showing up on LeftyBlogs but today it is not. I am in Massachusetts and my blog is www.massrevolutionnow.com

Thanks a lot!

OK, I am officially no longer answering any question about "posts not appearing" when the question arrives just 20 minutes after the post in question.

Wait at least a couple of hours before you complain. Sometimes, your RSS feed is momentarily unavailable -- in which case, we skip it and come back later.

Andy, your "Russ on the Daily Show" item appeared on LeftyBlogs almost exactly an hour after you posted it.

Kari I am very, very sorry. I felt stupid because the posts showed up shortly after posed the question. Some didn't show up for several hours which I later realized was probably just a slow RSS feed. Please accept my humble apologies and thank you for all the work you do in keeping this site up and running!

Andy

One of my bloggers edited the title of his post, and now only the former title "Murray Campaign Proves to be a Fundraising Powerhouse" is appearing on the blogroll and leftyblogs. And when people click on the link it takes them to an error screen. The new title is "Tim is Gaining $peed and Money-mentum!" Please put this into the Blogroll. . . THANKS!

Sandi -- If they really did just edit the title, the correct title will appear in LeftyBlogs (after the next update) and the link will always work.

What you're describing, though, tends to happen when someone deletes a post - and then posts a new post. Both the old post and the new post end up on LeftyBlogs. (Same thing with personal RSS readers, too.)

That's not good - and I've added to the bug fix list, but the better solution is always just to really edit the title -- not delete, and re-post.

Just a word that my blog name will show up on the list, but the title does not so noone can click to link to it. Also, on the state page, the post title is not bold like the others are. This occured all of a sudden a couple of weeks ago. I haven't done anything different, so am just wondering what the situation is. Thanks for a great spot; I've grown to check it out often.

I can't understand why two posts from Friday and Saturday on CT Blue (www.ctblueblog.com) with Courtney in the headline don't show up. Joe Courtney is the Democratic candidate for Congress in CT's 2nd District--shouldn't that key word be good? Or is it some other problem? THANKS for providing this great service!

Hey Kari--For some reason *all* my stuff's going into the combined posts section of Massachusetts, even when I include keywords that should establish posts as local. This seems to happen periodically. Sorry to bug you with this--I'm only doing it because my readership is like 5x greater when things go local. Thanks much, as always--Adam

Thanks a lot for adding the House Majority Project to the Colorado blogs list! You're providing a great resource to everyone who's out here trying to make a difference.

Note to folks who'd like better local content filtering--you can add key words to the filter and improve it for your state.

Thanks again!
Louella

Hi, love this stuff.

My posts about Bob Casey have not been appearing on the local/PA lists, they do appear on the "all posts" list, however. My other local, PA_centric stuff does make it to the local list. I submitted Bob Casey as a keyword the otehr day, perhaps that's the problem, dunno.

Thanks again, love to check out the Lefty Blogs from my state and around the country. What a great thing.

Slob

My posts are not showing up now. Posted one yesterday but todays are not showing up.
Help...also....the post from yesterday had no text associated with it (opening paragraph or lead in) do i need to do something to change my feed? The posts are not in all posts.
Thanks,
Tammy

my blog has been accepted and my stuff shows up fine. BUT, i have recently moved the blog to this address: http://alablawg.wordpress.com/.

the old one was: http://www.alablawg.blogspot.com/

same blog, new location. so do i need to resubmit it? or can you change whatever needs to be changed?

btw, this is a great service you guys have here.

Kari,
Hello, I have posted before, but i've not gotten a response, most likely because i didn't include a link or feed address. My bad, sorry:
http://www.seedingspartanburg.com/?feed=rss
but my posts are still not showing up.
Thanks,
Tammy

Hello,
Check-out my non-commercial Alabama History Timeline site www.usastatesdates.com and participate, it's free and educational. Look forward but...don't forget AL's past. Thanks for looking, Ben

By definition, our blog is local... yet none of our posts are appearing.

Hi again,

I left a comment in the other "report bug" thread, and I still don't have post showing up. The RSS feed I originally gave you guys doesn't work... my bad. Working feeds are:

http://markedhoosier.blogspot.com/rss.xml
http://markedhoosier.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MarkedHoosier

If you could, switch to one of these feeds?
thanks,
Marked Hoosier

My question. Every post on Somervell County Salon is local-I don't put national politics on there. I will see the posts, after several hours, show up on Local but then after a bit, they're gone but they're on combined. Except that quite often they then only show the titles (when on local, they showed both titles and some text). For example, I have been doing quite a bit of video and audio about the Trans Texas Corridor, and going to local county meetings to record comments. But they don't stay on the local front page nor the home page. I'm biased, of course, but I believe it's of importance for everyone in the country to read up on the TTC as part of the NaFTA superhighway. Is there some special keyword I should be putting in to have these be seen as local?

I am wondering why on 9/25 my blog had 2 new posts. One appeared on LeftyBlogs Florida and one didn't. The one that appeared "New Democraatic Office Opens in Delray Beach" was short and the one that didn't appear "Political Talk Can Ruin A Party" was long and they are WordPress. The tages should clearly identify both as local posts. Is there a problem with the one that did not appear?

BocaDem-- It worked just fine. Your second post didn't appear in the local-only section because there's nothing local in the first 300 characters. I'll repeat them here for you:

Political Talk Can Ruin A Party Only this time it might be the Democratic Party The other night I was a guest at a small dinner party. The guests were mostly Democrats. There was one Independent and I, of course, was identified as the “liberal” in the group. The talk, as you might expect was about the

Nothing local.

Thanks for lightning fast response . . . and the tip for future writing.

HELP! Michiganliberal.com seems to have dropped off of Leftyblogs! We just recently upgraded to a new server and have had a few bugs with the feeds. I suspect this is related to that. Could you make sure Leftyblogs is linked to: http://www.michiganliberal.com/rss/rss.xml ?
Thanks! And thanks for the tremendous service. It's really been a boon for us here in the Great Lakes State.

We updated our blog. Can you replace http://www.masslive.com/news/election/weblog with http://fray.blogs.masslive.com?

I already submitted a new blog to the roll, but wanted to make sure it got attention!! For now I am double-posting.

None of my blog posts are showing up on Lefty Blogs. I even checked the "Blog Roll" for my state and it says I have yet to post since being added, and I know I've posted at least 3 times. I also checked "local" and "non local." Can someone let me know if I'm doing something wrong, or if there is a glich?

Thanks!!

Hi gang, I have the same issue as Terry - my blog shows up in my Firefox blogroll, it posts to PNW Topic Hotlist, and many of my posts are locally focused, and yet, since before the election I haven't seen my blog on Leftyblogs, even in the non-local section.

What gives?

I fess up to contributing to a lesson recently, and I've read through this post, but Writes Like She Talks hasn't shown up on local or all posts-Ohio since Tuesday 9:43am (today is Weds., 6:23).

I know you always get it right - either by explaining, flipping or fixing (I bet it's really voodoo though Kari) so I'm not hyper. Just alerting you.

Thanks. :)

Tuesday, Dec. 12 - I see posts! Thank you - Kari, or the Post Gods.

Hey there, I haven't been see my blog: The Red State: Living Liberal and Progressive in a Red State (http://theredstate.typepad.com/texas/ or www.theredstate.com) in the list for a while now. Do you know what is going on?

Thanks.

I read the bug report. My blog is listed on the blogroll but my posts don't show up in local or non-local content. When I cross-post the same post to other area blogs it does show up on your feed. My feed is working on other sites. It used to be a candidate blog but now its not associated with my camapign.

Haven't seen my posts showing up in either category of local or nonlocal. I just noticed it but it appears it's been several weeks at least that don't show up. I converted to the new blogger and you re-added me after that and it looks like 5 posts may have shown up and then they stopped. What's up? Thanks for checking.
MajorityRulesBlog
(www.MajorityRules.org/blog)

Well, now you make me feel awfully predictable. My clearly local Massachusetts posts haven't been showing up for several weeks and I keep saying, I'll wait until the next one to see if it works then. Well, I miss you guys now and would like to get this fixed.
www.truthandprogress.com

Hey, there --

Washblog (www.washblog.com) is not showing up at all (zippo) for several days on your Washington page. Not a single post -- and we've got lots of them. Usually, there are many Washblog posts here. And it's not our RSS feed, as the posts are showing up on Pacific Northwest Portal (http://www.nwprogressive.org/portal/) and PNW Topics Hotlist (http://www.topichotlist.com/th/topichotlist.shtml), which both pull from our RSS feed. It's not because they're not Washington-based posts. Nearly all of our front page posts are Washington based.

Thanks for your help!

I was on Lefty Blogs for Tennessee on my old blog for more than a year at www.newscoma.blogspot.com. When I moved my blogspot address over to wordpress, I was denied.
I'm confused why I was denied when I resubmitted. How can I contact someone about this?
Thanks,
newscoma

I'm trying to help my husband get his blog, CT Blue back on your page. He changed domains last week. His old address was: http://homepage.mac.com/johnwirzbicki/iblog/CTBlue/ and his new address is www.ctblueblog.com. You had him on with the old address--the new one doesn't seem to get picked up. Can you help?

My blog posting for 05/09/07 was showing but then taken off. Why?

Hello,

Is there a planned utility that will let a single user add a second blog? I have been a longtime 'affiliate?' of LeftyBlogs with http://blackwednesday.org/blog.
We moved our blogs and main content to http://atomic.blackwednesday.org. I then added the new blog. I believe this was about 2 weeks ago, but I am yet to see the new posts aggregate to LeftyBlogs. I'm sorry, but I didn't see this covered in the documentation.

Can anyone assist with this, or give me some idea what I need to do on my side?

Thanks!

Hi Kari,

I've read the "your posts not showing up" page and I think my problem is in the RSS feed. I've changed servers and sent the new RSS feed in an email and an updated add request. I know you are very cyberly busy, but any idea how long it takes to get this kind of problem taken care of? Do I just need to be added again?

Thanks for your time.

Hi again, Kari,

Guess I should give you the domain (leftsideout.com), state (FL), and the RSS feed address for the above issue. Since I changed servers (domain remained the same) my blog hasn't been updated. The new RSS feed is http://leftsideout.com.webserver.nahomi.asdf456.com/blog/index.php/feed/

Thanks again.

Just found your site and am very impressed. Very unique.

Kari - just a note: I emailed you twice with a new URL for Writes Like She Talks and then, duh, I clicked on the add a blog link on the upper left of the Lefty BLog homepage - I submitted the new feed url through there just now. Sorry if I've confused you or overdone it. I suspect you know my basic message (could you please update my blog's feed). THANK YOU.

Last week, I switched my RSS feed to FeedBurner (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Roguepundit), and now my posts aren't showing up here. Don't know how to change my feed in the existing blogroll. Is there a way of doing that, or do I need to add RoguePundit with the new feed?

My local posts aren't showing up, and only one of the national ones? What to do?

I'm submitting this blog because about 20 percent of my articles are local. Do you want me to mark those somehow, when they are local so you can use only my local stuff. Or do you have a way to tag those out yourself.

Otto

My posts, clearly marked for local content, like these two:

A look back at Cannabis and Wisconsin in 2007: Part One
http://www.madisonnorml.org/blog/archives/000242.php

A look back at Cannabis and Wisconsin in 2007: Part Two
http://www.madisonnorml.org/blog/archives/000243.php

like many before, disappeared from after posting on your site. Is there a bias against cannabis on Lefty Blogs? Why are my posts disappearing?

Another post has disappeared. Can someone please advise what's up? Why have this here, if no one responds?

Okay, I left a comment on the Bug Report page that our site isn't showing up although submitted months ago.

I've read all this "why your posts may not show up" several times, and I cannot find any reason why our site is still not showing up.

The feed is not Feedburner:
http://www.michiganmessenger.com/rss/rss2.xml

The content is local with the occasional national -- much content is about the same local items that other Michigan Leftyblogs post about.

And no response to my first comment left 3.5 weeks ago.

I'd still like to know why affiliate sites Iowa Independent, Minnesota Monitor, Colorado Confidential show up here and ours doesn't. I'm removing the button from the site until there's a reply or a change.

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