please empty your brain below
The print is smaller on the Oz version and the flickr photo is different... haven't looked for other differences.

Antipodean | 18.03.12 - 8:12 a.m. | #

I thought something funny was going on... I'm on holiday in France and got the .fr version. Looks the same I know but how annoying. Have they missed the point of the phrase "world wide web"? I don't want the web to be chopped up into national versions

SELondoner | 18.03.12 - 8:37 a.m. | #

Cor, it's done it to mine too! What a waste. I only have two readers and they are both in the UK. It'll probably help the web-bots though.

Dave | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 9:27 a.m. | #

I don't like it much either (hadn't noticed though) but - and this isn't rhetorical - in an environment where the platform provider is being held increasingly liable for content, what else is possible?

Is'nt more than half the problem that we perceive blogger as free, whereas in fact we form part of a commercial enterprise? The old addage is never more true than here, if you’re not paying for it; you ARE the product. Google are predictably going to run their service on lines that are commercially beneficial to them, that probably includes not getting embroiled in law suits or alienating entire markets. Alienating a few bloggers is small beer in comparison.

Ham | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 9:31 a.m. | #

As a Londoner who is now also New Zealandish and lives in the land of .co.nz, I have landed on diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.nz. Do I win a prize or simply miss a go, do not collect $200 and go straight to jail?

Buzz | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 10:19 a.m. | #

Q: What happens if I have a custom domain?
A: Custom domains are unaffected by this change.

Do you want us to chip in?

Caravelle | 18.03.12 - 10:39 a.m. | #

Here in Ireland I'm still getting the .com address. And it stayed the same when I clicked on the .in address to see what happened.
Blogger doesn't yet appear to have registered a .ie address. See http://www.charlesfoster.info/oddbits.html

Charles | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 10:46 a.m. | #

From Thailand seems exactly the same as before,

colininthailand | 18.03.12 - 11:10 a.m. | #

Get a Wordpress.

(It's the new "get a Mac". Only, it doesn't cost twice as much, and it really does just work, so much better than Blogspot.)

Joe D | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 11:55 a.m. | #

Man uses free service to blog. Man gets upset when free service does something different.

Seriously, you should be using a custom domain, you should be hosting it yourself, and you should realise your stuff is too good for companies like Blogger etc to mess around with. Very happy to help.

James Cridland | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 11:58 a.m. | #

This is the most backward thing I've seen Google do in a while, their reasoning behind it is completely ridiculous from a technical standpoint - what they want to achieve is perfectly possible whilst maintaining all readers behind the one .com address...

Edgemaster | 18.03.12 - 12:24 p.m. | #

"If we receive a removal request that violates local law,"

Wow, how many lawyers would you need to know that?


HoosierSands | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 1:08 p.m. | #

Does this mean we can expect to see the comment threads migrating across to http://tridentscan.jaggedseam.co.uk/ as well?

swirlythingy | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 2:04 p.m. | #

@James Cridland

Blogger is not a charity. If Google weren't benefiting from it, they wouldn't offer the service.

And should people using a service not offer feedback on it because it is free?

I'd love to host my own website, but I can't afford it.

Richard | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 4:12 p.m. | #

@swirlythingy, last week I thought I'd look at the latest dg posts during a break at work, the computer wouldn't let me access one of the comments boxes saying it was "offensive", comments on other days were acceptable, I've no idea what it was objecting to but this might be an example of censoring our comments

amber | 18.03.12 - 4:20 p.m. | #

Sorry, but I agree with Ham and James, as I say every time you say things like this. If it's free, you've no right to complain.

With your traffic, you'd be paying *hundreds* of pounds a year to self-host.

Still works off my link to .com, so that's fine.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 4:44 p.m. | #

diamondgeezer.info is available, seems quite appropriate.....

NLW | 18.03.12 - 5:59 p.m. | #

I know, what a tediously selfish cheapskate freeloading blogger I am.

But moving the entire blog to a new URL?
Brand suicide, surely.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.03.12 - 6:57 p.m. | #

@swirlythingy - comments won't move as they're on my server and nothing to do with Blogger or Google or anyone.

@amber - if the comments were censored, its probably because someone used a word your work internet filter didn't like. There's nothing other than spam filtering done at this end, and to Blogger it's just an external link so they wouldn't censor it.

Kirk | 18.03.12 - 7:14 p.m. | #

Well, I never knew that...

http://diamond-geezer.com/

;)

mikey2gorgeous | 19.03.12 - 9:14 a.m. | #

I am probably not the only person who finds this morning that blogspot.co.uk addresses are banned at work -- the automated system categorises blogspot.co.uk as a 'placeholder' which, I suppose, it is, and blocks it.

I bet a lot of people read your stuff at work..

botogol | 19.03.12 - 9:37 a.m. | #

I updated my link to point to your workaround, for no other reason than big brother doesn't like it...

Peter Cameron | Homepage | 19.03.12 - 10:00 a.m. | #

I logged in from work in Sweden and saw the .se . Anyone logging on from here would think we have our own localized diamond geezer, blogging about travel to IKEA or walking the Round Malmö Loop.

KissenMe | 19.03.12 - 12:48 p.m. | #

Yes, my work filters blocked the website initally but I forced my way through and advised the powers that be!


Ian Brooker | 19.03.12 - 1:08 p.m. | #

Personally I think this is a brilliant idea. Google should really go the extra mile in V2 and automatically translate into French/German/whatever.

Andy C | 19.03.12 - 3:23 p.m. | #

My work filter has blocked it too.

Peter Cameron

can you share the secret of how you forced it through?

peewit | Homepage | 19.03.12 - 4:48 p.m. | #

@peewit: Add /ncr to the end of the URL, as detailed in the post.

Of course, what everyone here has failed to mention is the rather awkward fact that, technically, reading Diamond Geezer isn't work and therefore your workplace probably should've blocked it in the first place...

swirlythingy | Homepage | 19.03.12 - 5:18 p.m. | #

@botogol Yes, I have the same problem. I can no longer read DG at work. However I wish companies like Google would realise that censoring the internet by location does not work. An IP address does not indicate where the person is located. Many multi-national companies for example have a block of IPs they may allocate to different countries. For example when using the WiFi on East Coast trains, Google thinks I am in Sweden rather than Yorkshire and re-directs to google.se.

Jon Combe | 19.03.12 - 7:09 p.m. | #

Like Peter Cameron I've updated my link too - just to resist Big Brother Google.

Great Aunt Annie | 19.03.12 - 9:36 p.m. | #

As usual Blogger have launched a change that optimises things for them, and them alone, and the customer be damned...


A correction.

DG (and everyone reading this blog) - if you are not paying for it, you are not "the customer".

Whether you know it or not, you are in fact, the product being sold.

MK | 19.03.12 - 11:40 p.m. | #

Have you tried accessing google.com from the UK? I can get google.fr, google.de, google.kr and so on, but google.com always converts into google.co.uk

anne | Homepage | 24.03.12 - 10:52 p.m. | #

Anyone reaching my WordPress site with my own domain name, from my old Blogspot site, which automatically 'transfers' them, will assume that I'm based in Australia.

This is probably good news in that a) I never write about our colonial cousins and b) I'm actually in Indonesia which I do write about, often critically.

Oh, and DG, you are still .com for us here.

Jakartass | Homepage | 25.03.12 - 6:20 a.m. | #











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