AMERICAblog: Facebook has fallen and it can't get up
darien
· 1 year ago
Facebook's new format sucks too.
mctsonic
· 1 year ago
... I'm seeing Americablog blocked by more corporate internet filters too - it's a site that is actively blocked for Verizon employees now (just thought someone should know) ...
Styve
· 1 year ago
Perhaps it's the handiwork of Gonzo's ex-chief of staff! That was why I deactivated and I think many progressives have written off the site.
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Cheeez, censorship much over there?
Meanwhile, the mouth breathers are at work, vandalizing ACORN offices in Boston and Seattle, and offices in Providence and Cleveland receiving threats of violence and death (over at TPM).
It's going to get worse, my friends...these people will stop at nothing.
ms elyse
· 1 year ago
I can't believe how violent this is getting.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
What is a mouth breather?
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Christalmighty, Michelle Bachman on Hardball, defending those lying, insinuating robocalls...
Why does the Rethuglicon Party attract nothing but whores?
grandma
· 1 year ago
I'm watching her now....what a mental midget she is.....why is Chris letting her go on and on... She is an embarrassment to Minnesota.
ms elyse
· 1 year ago
Are you listening to Katrina from The Nation now? She was dead on.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Yes !!....excellent !
interlude
· 1 year ago
cuz all they require is a 5th grade education
SkippyFlipjack
· 1 year ago
Maybe it's just me, but I like using Facebook to hear about what my friends are doing, see photos of what they did last weekend, and so on. I don't want Facebook to be *yet another* portal, and don't want it clogged up with RSS feeds of the blogs I already read all day.
Do you subscribe to the RSS feed through facebook? is it helpful?
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
It won't be clogged up, it goes into my notes - you can choose whether or not you want to read my notes. It's not the status updates.
SkippyFlipjack
· 1 year ago
ok now I want to check it out, so I'm mad at FB for banning your feed. I wonder what their rationale is, and if they're applying it to other sites. hm.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
All I heard was that it was a glitch. Then nothing. 9 days now. Some glitch.
freshpaint
· 1 year ago
I am such a Twitter fan -- easy, platform-independent, roll your own. I love diving into the main time line to see what's being chatted about all over the world. Excellent snarkiness during the debates, too.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Yeah we were considering twittering during the debates more, but we kind of had a rhythm going posting on the blog...
frau sally benz
· 1 year ago
You don't have problems with google/blogger?!? I've had serious loading time issues for over a week now and I've got no clue how to fix it. Tried the blogger help group -- ignored... suggestions? lol
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Email me the details of your problem, and the name of your blog, and your blogger user name, and I'll try to forward it to folks inside.
dhmspector
· 1 year ago
You do know that Facebook's VCs are about as strong a set of backers of the GOP and McCain as you'll find anywhere, right?
The fact the even allowed this use of FaceBook to go this far/long is pretty stunning.
SkippyFlipjack
· 1 year ago
Funny; people don't tend to extend these theories to VCs. Probably because they don't usually have operational control of the company, and because they first and foremost want a return on their investment and meddling with the company -- particularly in ways that will sully its name -- run counter to that goal. You're a long ways from convincing anyone that Facebook's financial backers are keeping liberal blogs from pushing their feeds through the site.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
Mathews is steamed about those robo calls. Guys, the McRove campaign is now playing the FEAR card, and the racism card. Dirty SOBs. This what they can come up with the last few days of this election. I hope the buggers rot in HELL for what they are doing. I hope the Dems do something about this, before it it too late.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Palin omitted from White House Iraq troop briefing
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - John McCain got a call from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on the phone to Barack Obama, and to his Democratic running mate, Joe Biden. Nobody called Sarah Palin.
The calls this week were part of the Bush administration's campaign to line up political support for a compromise deal with Iraq that cedes some authority over U.S. forces, and a courtesy to the presidential hopefuls on whose watch the deal would take effect.
her husband belongs to a terrorist front group, that's why
mcd410x
· 1 year ago
the twitter updates work great. thanks for putting them up there.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Added the twitter updates to my bookmarks tab...thanks !
KISSman
· 1 year ago
I get all my feeds thru My Yahoo!. I'd be lost without it.
samiinh
· 1 year ago
OT, but connected to a thread from yesterday: This is McCain's choice for VP
"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe" -- here the audience interrupted Palin with applause and cheers -- "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom."
Sarge
· 1 year ago
This is exactly the point where I wanted to reach through the screen and impress upon him that people in uniform are NOT all in his pocket, or drinking his Koolaid.
Cpeterka
· 1 year ago
So I clicked and got a Lousy Commercial, to quote RALPHIE of BB Gun Fame. FACEBOOK has fallen down and can't get up. ROFL
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
That's a famous commercial from the 1980s
Sarge
· 1 year ago
Hmm. A friend couldn't paste me a URL to something on digby's a couple of days ago. Now this. Something is up.
I'm pretty new to FB, but many of my friends are there and I like to keep up with what they are up to. Okay, I like the word games too. But where can FB users contact someone about why this is happening? (Preferably en masse?) They don't make it easy to find.
Joe_Bourgeois
· 1 year ago
Bloglines has also not been able to feed this blog. As well as Eschaton, Digby, Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, TPM, Booman, Steve Benen, Taegan Goddard, My DD, and Frameshop.
daingel
· 1 year ago
Good thing I saw this before I activated Facebook on my Blackberry
publicsteele
· 1 year ago
They don't even answer emails from ad buyers. Creeps.
interlude
· 1 year ago
since i have (and use religiously) google reader and safari reader, why would i want twitter
Ruttle
· 1 year ago
I use FB quite a bit, but I have never had much luck reaching anyone for tech help or questions. It seems to be a low priority for them. Its still a good way to get info out there; people post all kinds of things I might not otherwise have seen, but I am disappointed to hear about the rss feed troubles. I hope it gets sorted out in time.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
To paraphrase an old commercial: "Silly wabbit, Facebook is for kids!"
Cynicor
· 1 year ago
OK, I don't know what the hell is going on with Facebook.
I was chatting with a friend on it yesterday, and tried to send him a link to a blog post of mine. (http://cynicor.blogspot.com/2006/08/rep-peter-k...) It refused to send it in chat: "Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users."
Then I stripped it down to just http://cynicor.blogspot.com. Same message. I reported it to Facebook and asked why.
Then, just to test, I sent a link to the youth hockey blog I keep for my son's team: http://bantam09.blogspot.com. SAME ERROR AGAIN.
By process of elimination, I think that Facebook has arbitrarily blocked all links to Blogspot.com from being sent in chats.
Sarge
· 1 year ago
This is consistent with a URL to digbys (also at blogspot) being rejected in the exact same way via chat.
terjeanderson
· 1 year ago
I've noticed a disturbing element of censorship taking place at Facebook.
Twice I've posted comments in my "status update" critical of Facebook's general counsel hiring choice - and both times I found it was removed (without any communication to me from Facebook about it happening, or why). Several friends have related stories about having Facebook-critical comments removed. (Hell, even on Barack Obama's social networking site they didn't try to stop people from making critical comments and organizing around the FISA vote... you'd think Facebook could handle the same amount of criticism.)
A friend also found his account cancelled (with no advance notice at all) - evidently because he had hosted several groups that posted homoerotic (but not "obscene" even by Facebook standards - no genitalia or nudity). He could not get anyone at Facebook to respond to his requests for a detailed explanation of where they said he had crossed the line.
Talk about reminder (as if we needed one) of the dangers of corporate media when it comes to the fight for free speech.
Ruttle
· 1 year ago
After reading Cynicor's post I decided to test it myself. I sent a friend a link to my blogspot blog (which I am certain no one has EVER read!) and the link was denied for the same reasons. This is disturbing. Ter's comment is also grating - I hate censorship like that and it makes me question using FB. I am so hooked on it and use it so frequently that it would be a very irritating change to have to make, but seriously, what the hell are they thinking?
Cynicor
· 1 year ago
Most people started out on AOL, a closed system with various random things censored.
Then more people got "real" Internet service, bypassed AOL's quirks and censorship, and the Web exploded.
Now everyone is drawn to Facebook, and they're spending their time on a closed system with various random things censored.
Circle of life.
clifflyon
· 1 year ago
Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes ro censorship. Google sand bagged my blog on the very day we published the Nixon impeachment papers. Thier own analytics prove it.
Then they did it again when we viciously attacked the NRA gun lobby.
ManyOne is a huge multi-million dollar non-profit project to provide the world with a publishing/social networking platform that cannot be compromised by corporate influence.
Its still in beta (beta.manyone) but launching soon.
Cynicor
· 1 year ago
An associate says that the blogspot blocking is due to "Some random wormy-type thing creating blogspot accounts with stuff on them to persuade people to.. well install junk which did the above. (and more, of course)"
Styve
· 1 year ago
What other alt-press, and blogs are experiencing the same treatment?
RockRichard
· 1 year ago
I noticed last night my blog feed, which runs on wordpress software, (not pimping, but for diagnostic purposes: rocktheboatblog.com) had been disabled about 11 days ago. I didn't think anything of it until I read this. Sounds like something fishy is going on.
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Meanwhile, the mouth breathers are at work, vandalizing ACORN offices in Boston and Seattle, and offices in Providence and Cleveland receiving threats of violence and death (over at TPM).
It's going to get worse, my friends...these people will stop at nothing.
Why does the Rethuglicon Party attract nothing but whores?
She is an embarrassment to Minnesota.
Do you subscribe to the RSS feed through facebook? is it helpful?
The fact the even allowed this use of FaceBook to go this far/long is pretty stunning.
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - John McCain got a call from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on the phone to Barack Obama, and to his Democratic running mate, Joe Biden. Nobody called Sarah Palin.
The calls this week were part of the Bush administration's campaign to line up political support for a compromise deal with Iraq that cedes some authority over U.S. forces, and a courtesy to the presidential hopefuls on whose watch the deal would take effect.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1643166~Palin_omitted...
Smart move
"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe" -- here the audience interrupted Palin with applause and cheers -- "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom."
FACEBOOK has fallen down and can't get up.
ROFL
I'm pretty new to FB, but many of my friends are there and I like to keep up with what they are up to. Okay, I like the word games too. But where can FB users contact someone about why this is happening? (Preferably en masse?) They don't make it easy to find.
As well as Eschaton, Digby, Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, TPM, Booman, Steve Benen, Taegan Goddard, My DD, and Frameshop.
why would i want twitter
"Silly wabbit, Facebook is for kids!"
I was chatting with a friend on it yesterday, and tried to send him a link to a blog post of mine. (http://cynicor.blogspot.com/2006/08/rep-peter-k...) It refused to send it in chat: "Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users."
Then I stripped it down to just http://cynicor.blogspot.com. Same message. I reported it to Facebook and asked why.
Then, just to test, I sent a link to the youth hockey blog I keep for my son's team: http://bantam09.blogspot.com. SAME ERROR AGAIN.
By process of elimination, I think that Facebook has arbitrarily blocked all links to Blogspot.com from being sent in chats.
Twice I've posted comments in my "status update" critical of Facebook's general counsel hiring choice - and both times I found it was removed (without any communication to me from Facebook about it happening, or why). Several friends have related stories about having Facebook-critical comments removed. (Hell, even on Barack Obama's social networking site they didn't try to stop people from making critical comments and organizing around the FISA vote... you'd think Facebook could handle the same amount of criticism.)
A friend also found his account cancelled (with no advance notice at all) - evidently because he had hosted several groups that posted homoerotic (but not "obscene" even by Facebook standards - no genitalia or nudity). He could not get anyone at Facebook to respond to his requests for a detailed explanation of where they said he had crossed the line.
Talk about reminder (as if we needed one) of the dangers of corporate media when it comes to the fight for free speech.
Then more people got "real" Internet service, bypassed AOL's quirks and censorship, and the Web exploded.
Now everyone is drawn to Facebook, and they're spending their time on a closed system with various random things censored.
Circle of life.
Then they did it again when we viciously attacked the NRA gun lobby.
ManyOne is a huge multi-million dollar non-profit project to provide the world with a publishing/social networking platform that cannot be compromised by corporate influence.
Its still in beta (beta.manyone) but launching soon.
http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/
go to http:www.youtube.com and search ANYONE CAN BE VP.
its amazing (:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exiyBYnJ00