If you haven't heard about the hostage situation at the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, MD, the CNN blog is giving updates. The web site of the kidnapper & terrorist is savetheplanetprotest.com but seems to have overloaded its server. He hasn't hurt anyone yet & the children in the child care center plus a lot of other people have been let go. ( Read more... )

Anyone know how to get a community pinged to get indexed in the blog directories? They're entered, but they're not updating. I have an unanswered question (ticket) in to LJ support about that, but it looks like I might have to move my community blogs if I want people to notice them. It's a shame, because I might not want to pay the subscription ( Read more... )