Is there somebody wicked smart out there who can help get sisu back where she belongs in the blogosphere? A couple of weeks back -- it seemed to coincide with New Zealand Bear's doing some sort of upgrading to the TTLB Ecosystem -- this blog disappeared or went to the bottom of those dynamic blogrolls where every time you post, your blog rises to the top and gets an asterisk or other such indication that you are active. In the case of fellow bloggers who show only the ten most recent posters in their blogrolls, sisu never appears at all anymore. In those like Blogs for Bush that do show everyone on their blogroll, sisu languishes way near the bottom of a list of hundreds, far below bloggers who publish much less frequently than we do. More details here, where we blogged about this sad state of affairs a week or so ago.
It just ain't right. We don't know enough about these things to fix it. Frustrating. We do know our blog service Typepad has us listed as http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu within http://sisu.typepad.com, and the Ecosystem lists both URL's, splitting up our ranking. Typepad says it doesn't make any difference, as both URL's work the same, and New Zealand Bear promised to take a look, but to date, nothing. Don't ask us. Just tell us what to do to get this thing fixed, and we will be eternally grateful.
Sisu: I don't have the dimmest idea about this subject. All I can do is wish you the best for your blog, along with my prayer for all of the family. God bless always. :)
Posted by: Miguel | November 30, 2004 at 03:24 AM
Take a look at my chart; much like your own. A couple of days ago the Ecosystem said that I was at the tail END of Marauding Marsupials... almost back to a Microbe, I tell you!
Yesterday I put the now-requisite TTLB ranking back up my site [I don't see one on your sidebar] and today I'm pretty high up on the list of Large Mammals!?!
S'plain that one to me, especially since the MuNus haven't linked me yet...
SO... do we really have the facts, ma'am? Something is skewed in blog-land... ;)
Posted by: pam | November 30, 2004 at 08:20 AM
Thanks, everyone, for your empathetic comments. Misery loves company. It looks like there really IS a bug lose in the TTLB Ecosystem. New Zealand Bear reports:
As many of you may have noticed, the Ecosystem is having some issues over the past few days. I'm working to resolve them, but for now, please have patience.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | November 30, 2004 at 02:14 PM
I am showing your blog last updated 11/4, think your blog isn't pinging Weblogs.com which would be a problem with your blog software. I emailed you how to manually ping http://pingomatic.com/ when you post as a workaround. Check your admin settings and see if you have something like update services to ping http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ which pings all the big update services. Checking Jay's blog cause the B4B blogroll is too long to check, it shows you last updated 11/30, however Jay linked http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/ Perhaps that is the one pinging the update services.
Posted by: mog | November 30, 2004 at 08:50 PM
Discouraged.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | December 01, 2004 at 06:42 PM