I happened to notice that at some point over the past few days, our pagerank was restored to the tech blog. That is good news, I guess. My main concern w/ our “offending” blog was the potential risk of de-listing (de-indexing). That would be a big problem, of course.
Anyway, yay for us, although before we were penalized for selling advertising, we had a pagerank 5, so we slipped a bit – meh.