UPDATED
Again, Blogger's platform is acting up! It happened last year on October 7 and a lot of people could not access the blog. Now it is more wide spread since I cannot access several Blogger pages, including mine and Gustavo's. The problem has been going on and off since Friday which actually makes me suspicious... I can read your comments through the edit page that I can reach but I cannot reply to them. Please, let me know whether you can read the blog and from which country. This entry will be erased when things get back to normal.
Update.
It seems to be a Venezuelan problem based on the replies to this entry. Only people inside Venezuela have problems. Right now I can finally get back in the blog (I could access it from my mobile but there is a kink in my browser and I cannot post comments that way, not even read them....). And yet I cannot read Gustavo`s blog.
In short it is fair to speculate that the problem is indeed in Venezuela and we can even speculate about "filters" by CANTV. Except that I wonder why they would filter me but not the 90% of people that answered and can see the blog without any problem.....
Since I was citing Napoleon the other day, there is one appropriate for this case, maybe:
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Trinidad and Tobago can Read you!
ReplyDeleteI am able to read the blog from the Netherlands.
ReplyDeletePat
I can read your blog from Brazil.
ReplyDeleteWarmest regards from Poland! :-)
ReplyDeleteI CAN´T open your blog an various others from Venezuela (Movistar 3G). Using a Proxy (Security Kiss), everthing works just fine.
ReplyDeleteAcces from El Hatillo, ccs. Todas and all wekend no problems. Rgds
ReplyDeleteNJ, USA is ok
ReplyDeleteI had problems all weekend.
ReplyDeleteI finally tried to use a USA based proxy & got through.
I've also been having problems with Google products - iGoogle, Google news, Gmail, etc.
Mostly images don't appear - backgrounds & just now all the images in Google news.
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I haven't seen any reports in my webmaster forums so the suspect might be here in Venezuela.
Without Proxy i´ve got the same Problems (Google+, Andriod app market)
DeleteJust an additional note I'm using CANTV ABA & using Chrome.
ReplyDeleteNo problem here in the UK, Daniel.
ReplyDeleteNo problem here in the UK, Daniel.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem reading anything here in the US.The only problem I ever have is that I cannot post a comment unless I use Chrome.
ReplyDeletefirepigette
I have no problem reading anything here in the US.The only problem I ever have is that I cannot post a comment unless I use Chrome.
ReplyDeletefirepigette
I have no problem from cowtown Calgary.
ReplyDeleteNo problem reading this blog from Belgium.
ReplyDeleteno problem in england amigo!
ReplyDeleteNo problem in Norway. Conclusion: Someone is testing the great firewall of Chávez.
ReplyDeleteNo problems here in Honduras.
ReplyDeleteI can read you. Valencia, Venezuela.
ReplyDeleteI'm an American in Merida, Venezuela and I have been having on and off trouble accessing your blog. At one point it was not working so I used a proxy. Now everything is working fine.
ReplyDeleteAll good from Tallahassee Florida.
ReplyDeleteFlorida Ok
ReplyDeleteFt Lauderdale fl is fine
ReplyDeleteFrankfurt, Germany fine
ReplyDeleteSan Antonio, TX, USA
ReplyDeleteItaly follows you as ever.
ReplyDeleteRoger from Houston
ReplyDeleteGot here in my first try from CCS through inter @2013 01 14 7:44pm
ReplyDeletePerfect access here in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ReplyDeleteOK, wee joke, wee joke. Everything fine in Flanders (but I suspect the Congo's going to beat Venezuela soon when it comes to the Web)
AOK from Tempe (Phoenix), Arizona. Yours is one the first blogs I go to every day and enjoy it very much. Keep up the good work and don't let the thugs get you down.
ReplyDeleteChrisnw Jan 14, 2013 @ 17:47 pm MST
Italy is fine!
ReplyDeleteHere in Catia La Mar I tried three times to enter un your blog and couldn´t. I again tried copying your address bar and wrongly ommited the hyphen between daniel and venezuela, and ended in a very strange daniel on blogspot too, completely nude of any information, like if it be "in construction ", tried writing again correctly the adress bar and !at last! entered your place. Sometime like that have happened in this late days. Thank your for your blog, be safe (you and your blog)
ReplyDeleteShortly after posting my comment at around 5 pm I tried to come back to the blog again & it was blocked. I immediately used a proxy & got in with no trouble.
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely an internal Venezuelan problem
After a couple of days of no access, starting this afternoon it has been intermittent. No problems accessing with movistar or using a proxy. From Puerto La Cruz.
ReplyDeleteProblems seem limited to cantv
DeleteCan read you in chilly Ontario, Canada.
ReplyDeleteAustralia good :)
ReplyDeleteValga la redundancia; you are coming through loud and clear in Indianapolis, IN as well! Thanks for doing so; you are a lifeline when it comes to staying connected to Venezuela...OT: Island Canuck, we have not met, but glad to see you back....have not given up the dream of staying at your Posada!!!!!!:)
ReplyDeleteOsaka, Japan we hear you loud and clear
ReplyDeleteReading you nice and clear in sunny Miami Beach, FL. I did read on twitter that many oposition sites are going down lately
ReplyDeleteCleveland OH - we read you.
ReplyDeleteFrom Oxford,Ohio...sin problemas
ReplyDeleteNo issues with your blog here in Chicago
ReplyDeleteIt probably has to do with the Question you posted earlier today and the testing of new Hegemonia Comunicacional toys
ReplyDeleteNo Issue in Raleigh, NC
ReplyDeleteNo issue in San Jose, CA
ReplyDeleteNo problem to read you as ever in Germany
ReplyDeleteSwitzerland get your message...
ReplyDeleteReading you well in Cambridge, UK. Thanks for all your hard work, it's much appreciated!!
ReplyDeleteeverything working well in Portugal. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteNo problems in Helsinki, Finland... except it is too damn cold!
ReplyDeleteVirginia Water, near the Surrey-Berkshire county line, England, reading you loud and clear!
ReplyDeleteDaniel, probably the issue was resolved last night... here in Ccs, I can read you. As I did yesterday during the day.
ReplyDeleteSaludos!
I think I have this figured out.
ReplyDeleteGusdavo Coronel had a column outling the probabilities of Chavez being dead.
They wanted to block his specific Blog which is also on Blogspot
http://lasarmasdecoronel.blogspot.com/
It is still blocked in Venezuela however easily reachable with a proxy.
As Blogspot is a Google property & as they are obviously unskilled at what they do they have affected other bloggers as well as other Google services which may be on the same servers & IP ranges.
After 3 days they now appear to have narrowed it down a little but I'm still having problems with Google services.
Daniel, for the moment, is reachable.
There you have it - heavy handed dictator crap to protect information that is reachable from many other sources.
Gustavo's column has been reproduced in ND.
Ok from Barcelona, Spain.
ReplyDeleteI can read you fine here in the country music capital in TN. Have another month to go (or more as I always threaten to stay home every year)before I go back to my perch in Caracas (Sabana Grande). I cannot imagine not being able to access you every day (okkkk...several times a day). Thank you Daniel!
ReplyDeleteI still need to try 4-5 times until the page opens!!!! Though a Movilnet server, state company/CANTV. Movistar is somehow easier to open. Suspicious grows..... I have to try Digitel.
ReplyDeleteDaniel, I think that's the problem! I have Inter, cero rollo.
ReplyDeleteHere in England no problems
ReplyDeleteToday everything is fine again (Movistar). I´m comment number 5.
ReplyDeleteAlso all OK in San Francisco - and an opportunity to say THANK YOU for your blog. I read it every day as I have relatives in Caracas. Much appreciated!
ReplyDeleteOk from Atlanta, Georgia
ReplyDeleteNo problems reading you from Atlanta as always. Take care and keep up the excellent information coming!
ReplyDeleteNo problem here in the Republic of Panama.
ReplyDelete5 by 5 in Houston, we have no problem.....
ReplyDeleteloude an clere an Cuba
ReplyDeleteNo problems on Bonaire and Curacao ....
ReplyDeleteI can read you in Caracas using ABA
ReplyDeleteI can post your posts in my blog, as long as you need or want to.
ReplyDeleteNo problem in Frankfort, IL
ReplyDeleteOK por aqui. San Antonio, TX, USA
ReplyDeleteOk from Southern California, USA. If it's any consolation, I can't send email from my gmail account. Hmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteMiami . Fl. Loud and clear. Thanks
ReplyDeleteNo problem in Havana, Cuba.
ReplyDelete-Hugo Chavez
No problem in Havana, Cuba.
ReplyDelete-Hugo Chavez
That is good news. :)
i like the British version:
ReplyDeleteMany journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory.
—Sir Bernard Ingham
fpigette
Funny thing, i can access the page on Firefox. When i try hidemyass it says: "Sorry, this proxy does not allow the requested site (daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com) to be viewed."
ReplyDeleteAll normal in Chrome
I've been unable to open any Blogger site for at least 2 days from Margarita on ABA.
ReplyDeleteWas able to get in now. With proxies no problem.