Bloglet Alert

Attention!  If you have a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and you use Typepad, you'll need to log in to your Bloglet account and reset your blog.  Apparently when Typepad does maintenance updates, it knocks Bloglet out.  You only need to re-enable your blog, test the connection and save.

1.  Log in to Bloglet.com

2.  You'll see a yellow warning icon  next to your blog.  Click on the pencil icon  to edit your blog settings.

3.  Put a checkmark in the "enabled" box

4.  Click on "test connection"

5.  A pop-up box should open and say "Success" in green.  Close the window.

6. Click the "save weblog" button. 

You're all set.

Comments

[Patsi Krakoff]

You would think Bloglet would get their act together. I love this service, but this is the 2nd or 3rd time I've discovered it has been disabled. If they can't solve this problem each time they update their systems, people will stop using them.

I love them because it avoids having to download RSS software and deal with that, and I'm lazy. But they aren't very smart in causing all their clients to do these corrections, especially since they don't notify us.

Thanks for the heads up, Denise, I wouldn't have noticed until several days later!

[Seshu]

I check my Bloglet feeds every week as standard practice. But one thing that really bugs me about Bloglet is that while I have acquired some 229 "subscribers" several of them have some rather odd email addresses like: admin@olbo.ws, admin@olbc.com or admin@fbj.com. Are these comment spammers/trackback ping spammers waiting in the wings? It skews my subscription numbers (and I wonder if you have the same problem) and it leaves me with the feeling that I can't really do anything about it. Any solutions? Are there better products out there to disseminate web feeds through an online managed subscription interface? Do tell!

[Denise Wakeman]

Seshu, thanks for your valuable comment. I have not experienced the problem you describe with the Bloglet subscriptions, and it does sound like they are spam subscribers. I realize Bloglet is not the most sophisticated subscription system and I have not run across another system yet, though no doubt there is one out there.

You could use an email subscription form and build your subscriber database through another database management system. However you would have to manually send out notification of new blog posts. If anyone knows of another blog subscription application, please post the info here. Thanks!