What makes you happy ?

Almost 2 years ago I wrote a post called “Fidelity – what is cheating?“. Today it was stolen in it’s entirety for the 3rd time by someone at MySpace. It’s the top post on stats right now and I have not the slightest idea why. But it’s been stolen. I’m used to being splogged and I don’t now bother. But real people taking content? Why should anyone tolerate that? The first person I asked to take my post down apologised and did. They ended up quoting and linking which was cool. The second person immediately made their space private and would not answer IM’s. She did do as I asked though when I copied the complaint that I had sent in. And this one I have also asked. And she’ll get the same. (Complaints going into MySpace get a slower answer than those coming into wordpress.com……. but hey, where doesn’t?). I await her response..

Update:
1.

im not posting it as my own man, it was on a webpage and the internet is a free place. the person who typed it didnt even site their work so it’s free
myspace wont do anything because i sited the wbpage it’s from, ever heard of a hyperlink dude?

Complaint made and I told her. She has other copied content.

2.

u should be honored. Im promoting ur work. im not saying i wrote it

I told her she is stealing content.

3.

Ok your crazy. Go away

4.

I’m not stealing content, I have sited everything. That is legal. It is not plagarism if it’s sited. Don’t you have english courses in the UK

I asked again. I did explain how she would feel if people copied her stuff. I did explain what the complaint might do.

5.

Go fuck yourself

and she set her blog to Private.

Update: 29 May. The post of mine has been removed. They do take their time over there but I still won :)

Just had a comment on an old post and the URL given was this one (do the right-click thing) which takes me to Blogger and prompts me to login. Just weird ?

http://www.onedayblogsilence.com/OneDayBlogSilence.com.html

I can’t find the site for the innocent Iraqis though.
If you see it let me know – they are deserving of a memorial just as much.

“The Blogosphere is in deep mourning.”
Oh.
No-one told me.
Damn.
Maybe I should blog it?

Crap like the above is just so bloody annoying.

Update: dr Dave says it better than me.

Weblogs ‘need content warnings’
The code of conduct was drawn up by Tim O’Reilly
Readers should be warned when they are reading blogs that may contain “crude language”, a draft blogging code of conduct has suggested.

The code was drawn up by web pioneer Tim O’Reilly following published threats and perceived harassment to US developer Kathy Sierra on blogs.

The code begins: “We celebrate the blogosphere because it embraces frank and open conversation.”

The draft says people should not be allowed to leave anonymous comments.

Blogs which are open and uncensored should post an “anything goes” logo to the site to warn readers, the code suggests. BBC

Oh for fucks sake.

Okay, I’ll play – anything fucking goes and anonymous comments are perfectly fucking fine.

(Steve Martin is a great guy and I fucking love his attitude in Planes and Trains…)

The draft will now be assessed and amended by bloggers around the world.

WTF?

I grabbed two feeds from The Times Online last night and today I find they can’t be clicked through to. I can see a headline, one line of text and nothing. No way to get to the story. So either News International haven’t a clue or NetNewsWire can’t handle their feed. The latter I will ask….

And how is this for stupidity:

They want the post Dugg when all I can see is the summary?? Why all that crap in a feed when all they’ll let me see is 2 measly lines? How stupid is that person? If it wasn’t in the British Blogs Aggregator that junk would have been the quickest way to Delete.

Anyway….. work tonight will be accompanied by (a) Dave or (b) Planes, Trains… and maybe followed by The Departed. Or (a)+(b) if it takes a while…

May 1-3 (Tue/Wed/Thu) there’s this Internet World 2007 event at Earl’s Court in London. Free to get in, just need to register. Seems like a good way to spend a day. Anyone else planning on being there? I’ll probably go on the Wednesday though I’ve not really looked at what’s on.

The server apparently failed big style. I lost 3 posts and a few emails – I’d only just switched to imap too.
But it’s not life support, it’s only a blog. I have them in a feed but does it really matter? I think not.
Database backups with cron are a good thing :)

I had an email today from someone who wanted to close all his old posts to comments but he wanted to know if someone wanted to comment there. That seemed odd which was accepted in the end. But it made me wonder … when is a post so old that you would not comment? Does it matter? Does it depend whose blog? Topic? Mood? When is a post too old? Can a post be too old where it is not news-based maybe? But then new news could impact what was said in old news which makes comments valid. I’d not really noticed before and I don’t know what I do.

I have no idea when I did. Months probably and that would just be a total number and nothing more.

You?

This feed is copyrighted by me. If you see this anywhere else but in your feedreader then please don’t bother to contact me because I have no means to prosecute even if that were an easy route to take – which it is not. If you are reading this on a splog somewhere then my writing “copyrighted by me” hardly had the desired effect did it? It just took up space in this feed – just like it did yesterday, and the day before, with each and every post..

The fact is that decent people will not steal your words and the not decent will – and the internet offers precious little in the way of padlocks and chains so is that line (or several) really worth the place it is?

Maybe you have a warning on each and every post that someone could land on from Google that states the same thing? Probably not. Why not? Shouldn’t the claim of copyright be easily visible and not be tucked away on some page elsewhere? So why can’t that apply to your feed?

All the copyright notices, activation loops and legal muscle don’t stop software being pirated so why should a line of text protect your feed when you have absolutely no resources to enforce a violation?

Ad-blocking in feeds? I’d rather have the above nuked. Far more irritating.