DATA > INFORMATION > KNOWLEDGE > WISDOM > 42
A while ago I made a bookmarklet to get the original photo from a Flickr page. I used it myself a bit, but mostly I just did it to warn those who publish with Flickr that there wasn’t much more than the illusion of copy protection on photos. Flickr since made their security-by-obscurity a little […]
I recently imported a large dataset using phpMyAdmin (no SSH) and learned a couple things along the way that I thought worth sharing (if only with my future self).
1) Use split
phpMyAdmin’s import has a maximum file size, which is significantly smaller than the dataset I was importing. My initial solution to this problem was to […]
You may remember that Viacom sued YouTube for a billion dollars over “Inducement of Copyright Infringement.” What YouTube does, specifically, is make it possible to download clips of, for example, the Daily Show, without watching Comedy Central’s ads. That’s certainly not the purpose of YouTube, but making it possible to download is a side affect […]
At the last Refresh Denver meeting, I talked about microformats. Rather than doing a slideshow presentation, I just wrote down and passed out 25 statements about microformats that I hoped would be interesting enough to drive discussion. It worked out well enough, I think. In hindsight, it probably would have been better to focus less […]
As I mentioned previously, many people have asked me about releasing the source code for various MySpace feed services. Back when I first created the blog service, it was actually released under an open source license. That was a mistake. The code was written to work on my specific server, and most people downloading it […]
Over the past few days, many people have noticed some problems with the MySpace feeds. That’s because over the past few days I’ve been experimenting with potential ways to speed up these feeds. Some of these experiments have been less successful, some breaking the feeds altogether. But I think I’ve come up with some successful […]
A few different people have notified me about a bug in the MySpace Comments RSS Creator that caused some comments to not show up in the feed. The problem was with comments that had “Currently Online” notices in them. This was kind of difficult to track down because it only showed up when the people […]
Pei Huang helpfully pointed out that the MySpace RSS Creator wasn’t working quite right on some blogs. Apparently some blogs have the time at the top of each post and others have it at the bottom. The tool would work on both, but the post times would all be wrong when the time was on […]
At my day job I’m working with a database export from a LANrev system. If you don’t already know what LANrev is, you might as well stop reading now. I’m just putting this up on the web because I couldn’t find it there when I looked for it, and hopefully this will save someone the […]
Of all the microformat specs, rel-nofollow has always been my least favorite. A lot of people don’t like rel-nofollow because it makes publishers even more prone to treat links as an implicit endorsement or agreement. And I share that concern, but my main problem with rel-nofollow is the first open issue on the microformat wiki: […]