medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Apologies for the inevitable effects of cross-posting; however,
this is a matter that affects everyone whose field touches
directly or tangentially upon the cultures of ancient Greece and
Rome, and the classical tradition. This evening I visited the
site of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review at
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/
to search for a title in the archives, and was rather surprised
to see against the link to the blog version of BMCR - which of
course provides the option for visitors to leave comments unlike
the traditional web version - usually at
http://www.bmcreview.org/
the following notation: "Please note that Google has removed all
access to our blog after incorrectly flagging it as a spam blog.
We had requested a review which did not happen, and on September
28 Google removed all access to the blog, which we are attempting
to appeal."
I find this kind of misjudgement, evidently made in complete
ignorance or disregard of the contents of the blog, especially
worrying from a company that aspires to be, in effect, the
digital librarian and cataloguer of the entire world. Of course,
due to its very size, Google is notoriously hard to contact
directly; however, perhaps wide enough attention on blogs and in
other fora might just bring to someone's attention the gross
error that appears to have occurred.
Terrence Lockyer
Johannesburg, South Africa
e-mail: lockyert [at] mweb.co.za
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