I’ve been having a pretty frustrating time with BlogMap of late – the little map on the sidebar that shows other local bloggers. I tweaked the location of the blog slightly, and all I tried to do was update the location. Simple you might think, it certainly was with geourl which has quite happily updated with the new location. BlogMap has produced a slightly different behaviour, and has quite happily listed the same blog twice in two different locations, one in the old, the other in the new location.

I’ve tried using the manual update form at http://www.feedmap.net/blogmap/ping.aspx but that just produces an error: “Unable to store blog. Please try again later. [ERROR: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: value]â€? – not exactly helpful.

Anyway, at this point I thought I’d send some feedback asking for some help, which I did a few days ago, to be greeted with total silence, and the blog is still in the database twice, despite the fact that the pages and feeds are only outputting the new location, which implies that BlogMap is caching up the location and can’t detect duplicates in it’s database – a bit of a worry if for some reason you want to remove your location! (geourl will remove you from the database once you remove the relevant tags and ping their server to update.) I guess it’s a problem with trying out these beta tools, but as I commented previously, there is a way to run a beta programme, and the lack of response from the BlogMap site has left me less than impressed.