Blog.com will go offline for a system upgrade next Sunday (August, 2). We will bring the systems offline at 23h00 UTC (Universal Time Coordinates) and expect to be offline for up to five hours. For reference, 23h00 UTC is:

16h00 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
19h00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
00h00 CEST (Western Europe Summer Time)
01h00 CEST (Central Europe [...]

There was a problem with a few migrated users, where they would have their content doubled.
This was due to a problem in our migration script, but it’s now completely fixed. We’re fixing the content of those blogs, so if you had the duplicate content, expect it to be fixed real soon.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

In the next couple of weeks we’ll be adding some new widgets for your blog’s sidebar.
We would like to have some feedback from you on this matter. What widgets or features would you like to have in your sidebar? Maybe some Twitter integration? Slideshows? Keep us posted, and we’ll do our best to add some [...]

The signup page is enabled again. Yesterday we had to disable it, because we stopped being able to connect to reCaptcha servers. reCaptcha provides us with the anti-spam verification on new account signups and on anonymous comment submission. Without it, we’d be flooded with spammers.
The problem is solved. It was a network routing problem, not [...]

We are tying up the last loose ends in the move to wordpress. If your blog is still living in the previous platform, expect it to be automatically migrated during the next couple of weeks. No intervention is needed by the blog owner. We will move all the data to the new infrastructure and convert [...]

The new blog.com homepage is going live today! As the DNS updates, during the next few hours you’ll find the new look of blog.com. This is the first step in a slew of evolutions scheduled for the near future. We’ll keep you posted through our blog.

The move to wordpress opens up the possibility for blog.com to draw upon the huge library of wordpress themes created by the wordpress community. We already have a selection of handpicked themes for you to use. However, we are as always open to your input. Please use this post comment section to tell us if [...]

If you ever find yourself running out of subjects to talk about, turn to the internet. There’s an answer to everything. Try out Plinky. Plinky shoots out a challenge a day to call your muse back to work.

As events develop in Iran, the government tries to silence dissident voices in the media. What was once feasible by governments is now extremely difficult. As John Gillmore once laid out in perfect terms: “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”. More info on The Guardian, on the increased usage of Tor, [...]

In case you haven’t noticed yet, we are moving at full blast to wordpress-mu. Ever since WP 2.7 feature list appeared on our radar, we were pondering the possibility of moving. We took the plunge, and are working hard moving tracks on a heavy train. Switching platforms is no easy task, and works should take [...]