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>> Please pimp your blog over in the 'Bloggers' area."

> BadEagle.com is not my blog... When you accuse me of "pimping" "my" blog, you are, in effect, spreading disinformation, misleading your fellow Freepers, and abusing your privileges as a FreeRepublic user. In future, please refrain from posting false or misleading information on this thread.

Ahem. Step away from your high horse, please.

Please take a moment and click the link you provided for the post above:

http://www.poe.com/2009/02/22/is-google-blocking-freerepublic

Is that not your blog site???

My profound apologies if I misinterpreted "POE.COM" as being related to "Richard Poe". I mean, your picture and name are all over the site...

Stop playing word games, please.

You're entirely welcome to post stuff from your blog, over in the "Bloggers" area. Or aren't you aware that that area exists specifically because the rest of us aren't all that interested in having blog posters mixing their personal blog stuff in with actual news? Blog posts are one step this side of "Vanity" posts; the only functional difference is a blogger bothers to set up a site for their stuff.

That said, IF you are able to ascertain through a pattern of repeated surveys, that Google Analytics is indeed ignoring FreeRepublic.com, AND you can demonstrate that your reasonable attempts to get their attention and correct the problem have been met with refusal, THEN you've got some news to report.

Many of us, including myself, would be fascinated to learn of this. I'm not apathetic about a problem like that. I'm apathetic about Google Analytics experiencing what appears to be a glitch for a day.

I've spent as much time on this as I care to. If you wish to respond, I'll read and consider your response. But I've heard your position, I've said my piece, and since we seem to disagree on pretty obvious stuff, further disagreement isn't likely to be productive.

Richard, you've been on FreeRepublic since 2002, a couple years longer than I have. I feel a little funny correcting someone who's got more time on the forum than I do. Nevertheless, you're talking like a noob (no knowing what link you provided for a post). I hope it's only temporary.

Have a great day.

justin99 wrote: You know what they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity (especially when you keep repeating your ‘product’ over and over and over, in a transparent attempt to get more Google hits and cement the FR/badeagle link on future google/web searches...

Whereupon dayglored wrote: Please pimp your blog over in the 'Bloggers' area."

Dear dayglored:

I beg your pardon for confusing your point with justin99's point. Justin99 accused me of posting this article in an effort to promote BadEagle.com. When you subsequently accused me of "pimping" my blog, I assumed you were making the same charge about the same blog. My mistake.

It's getting a little difficult to keep track of the many personal attacks directed against me on this thread, and to separate one from the other. My apologies. In future, I will try to keep better track of who is accusing me of pimping for what.

dayglored also writes: You're entirely welcome to post stuff from your blog, over in the "Bloggers" area. Or aren't you aware that that area exists specifically because the rest of us aren't all that interested in having blog posters mixing their personal blog stuff in with actual news?

Dear dayglored:

If you think my articles don't belong in the News/Activism section, you'll have to take that up with Jim Robinson.

Years ago, Mr. Robinson graciously extended to me a lifelong invitation to post my writings in the News/Activism section whenever I wished, as often as I wished, whether they came from my blog, my columns, my feature articles, my books or wherever else.

He did this because he knew me as an award-winning, professional journalist and a New York Times-bestselling author, whom he wished to encourage to post more frequently at FreeRepublic. Evidently, Mr. Robinson believed that FreeRepublic would benefit from featuring more of my work.

If you think Mr. Robinson was wrong about me, and you wish to persuade him to reconsider his policy toward me, I suggest you send him a Freepmail.