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popular advertising industry blog shut down by Google in UK

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
1 year ago424 views

The Guardian reports today that "the UK's most popular advertising industry blog, Scamp, has been shut down by Google for breaching the conditions of its blogging platform, Blogger."

The article continues that Scamp,
scampblog.blogspot.com/

"penned by Bartle Bogle Hegarty creative director Simon Veksner, is hugely popular in the UK ad industry, often drawing hundreds of comments per post from disgruntled advertising executives.

Visitors to Scamp are currently blocked from accessing posts with the message that it is in "violation of Blogger's terms of service".

"Google have shut me down, and they haven't even given a reason yet," said Veksner.
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Link:
guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/ ...

Dave Shaw [PersonRank 5]

1 year ago #

Looks like it is back up now.

"P.S. As you may have noticed I am now back after what the Americans call an 'outage'. Google suspended Scamp after someone complained about a comment in the Sauce Poll post a few days ago. Details are there if you're interested."

scampblog.blogspot.com/2008/08 ...

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

1 year ago #

Yes, it was online when starting this thread

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