Here at Brinkwire we’re huge fans of Zemanta. The plugin is an easy way to make you blog better and for less effort. The widget scans your blog post to suggest links and tags but perhaps our favourite feature is how it finds appropriately licensed pictures to use with the post.
Zemanta also provides a handy-dandy “reblog” button that we use on Brinkwire as a way to let bloggers dive straight into the news piece, take the soundbytes they want and publish straight to their blog.
Well, on Monday the 13th of July there was a short outage on the API and this meant the widget interface started to show errors. It only lasted an hour. Things got slightly confusing as there was a problem with the DNS servers too and some people wouldn’t have been able to see the reblog button.
Zemanta did well as they helped people over Twitter and have their blog post up on the matter in speedy time. If you’re still not getting the Zemanta widget to show then the suggestion is to restart your computer to refresh your local DNS and then email support (at) zemanta (dot) com if that still doesn’t work.
July 14, 2009
Widgets