BLOGGER ALERT!
To all Bloggers experiencing Blogger service disruption and blocked access to blogs:
Australian API 'Developers' Brett Morgan and Pat Coleman appear to have initiated a takeover of Blogger for 'for-profit' Business API Development.
Blogger left an April 1, 2011 notice of no-money-exhanged 'sale' of Blogger to Google API Developers on the Blogger Blog. View www.youtube.com/watch?v=BazoWR1kYbM or check Google Search at 'Blogger at 'Google I/O: New API preview-Blogger Developer Group/GoogleGroups', May 10-11, 2011.
This takeover may explain many Blogger complaints of lost blogs, lost access to blogs, and other difficulties.
'Old Blogger' prohibited alteration of the 'open source' (free) software and tampering with other bloggers blogs/blogspots/websites on Blogger. Morgan/Coleman plan to have 'read only APIs', presumably to drive web design business to their new 'for-profit' business and advertising API Development company.
Here is a copy of the email I sent to Morgan/Coleman today (Wednesday, May 18, 2011):
I've just learned of your takeover of Blogger fo your Google API Business Development company.
Under Blogger rules, websites are the property of the website owner. I have been trying to regain access to my http://monthlynotes.blogspot.com/ series of over 40 blogs since April 9, 2011 when someone hacked on and shortened the gmail password blank to 1 character less than the 18 characters required for my registered password.
I have left several Blogger Forum and other messages to have this corrected by the old blogger help customer service team, some of which have been returned as undeliverable.
Immediately return access of my blogs to me at mkrause381@gmail.com by correcting the password blank characters and restoring my previous gmail noted above. I see that your plans included changing existing Blogger websites to 'read only APIs' to demand website design fees for your company.
Blogger has been a free blog website for discussions, notes, journals, graphics, and other materials for bloggers who wish to do this and learn more about computers and software. The Blogger software is 'open source'. Blogger rules do not allow alterations of the software, particularly to damage or block other blogger's websites.
If you feel that you have 'taken over' Blogger for your company and disrupted bloggers service and access to their blogs you should reconsider your purported ownership of Blogger. It is a non-profit website with Internet Service Provider services provided through Google Gmail.
Brett & Pat, you should buy your own servers and run your own 'for-profit' business Internet Service Provider company for business and advertising.
In the interim, you should alert all Bloggers to your purported takeover, return websites and access to all current Bloggers to allow Bloggers to decide if each wants to continue to publish original materials on what has been a very valuable 'Old Blogger'.
Notify me of return of website access and gmail/password to my new gmail mkrause383@gmail.com.
Bloggers: email Brett Morgan/Pat Coleman at www.brett
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