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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Hello Roboblogger

Posted by emily at 5:05 PM

Here we are in the height of summer travel season and we’ve had a few questions from editors about what happens to their pages when they go on vacation. That's a great question! If you are on vacation and your grass hut on that beautiful unmarred stretch of beach on that island far, far way has no wifi (ack!) what will happen? What will your faithful readers do while you are incommunicado?

We’ve got this figured out.

When you are inactive for a set period of time, Roboblogger comes in to keep an eye on things. He watches over your pages like a good house sitter, bringing the mail in and making sure the lights go on and off at random intervals to keep things looking alive. You don’t have to make any special arrangements ahead of time, Roboblogger just knows. He is that benevolent stranger that makes sure the newspapers don’t pile up on the driveway, so the neighbors and any random passersby are none the wiser.

When you return, tanned, rested and ready, Roboblogger will back away slowly, like he did when you first started editing your page. He’s good like that. He’s ready to let you shine and return only when needed to help fill in the blanks while you take an undoubtedly well deserved break. So, with that in mind, enjoy your vacations, Editors! Send us a postcard!

Comments (1)

On January 22, 2008 5:38 AM, Buckiis said:

Can you add sites for roboblogger to watch?

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