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Of course, they'll have to solve this little problem:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080711/internet_regulation.html?.v=5
Story: SEO Plagiarism
Plagiarism aside (it's happened to me, too), I recently found "web design" site that was nothing more than dozens of pages from various sections of our sites. The owner would not answer emails; he did not answer his phone, either.
This is where the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is your friend. It allows you -- by email -- to file a DMCA complaint with the web host, who must, by law, comply by removing the copyright-infringing material from the server. There's a great writeup here which, though lengthy, gives start-to-finish detail:
http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=20185
Many web hosts, too, give the short version of what they want, for instance, http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/SubpoenaPolicy
Bottom line: write your email correctly, and the web host takes care of it FAST (probably in hours), without the need of lawyers, lawyers fees, or even paper sent by snail mail.
The DMCA also allows for notifying domain registrars and even ICANN. Really, this is a law that protects web publishers.
Good article, Duane. I suppose it can be difficult to get the point across -- that if they want to communicate to the people they're looking to communicate to, they've got to look at it from that vantage. They may be experts, but they'll need to add something more to their expertise in order to get that done.
Story: Holy Mother of Linkbait
Story: Wordpress 2.5 Released
Excellento. I've been waiting for its release. Now I'll wait a bit to see if there's any yelling in the WordPress forums ... but it's looking good.
Uh oh:
- I noticed that my installation is reporting 2.5 as a development version, so was this release done in error?
- Even the release post have been withdrawn!
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164091?replies=2
Posted minutes ago.
We've been doing energy conservation in Los Angeles for some time now. Summer's coming, too, and it'll be hot once again, so that means energy conservation in order to bypass any need for rolling blackouts.
Good post. I moderate first-time commenters (and read all the later comments that come through), but these are good guidelines.
A very timely article for me. A Florida "web design company" has copied much of our site; in fact, there's little on the site that wasn't written by me.
Sigh. Back to protecting our copyrighted works.
johnandrews, thanks for the link. From that link:
With the reconstructed password hash it is possible to create aOf course, that page was posted last year. But it's helpful to password-protect the wp-admin directory, so that even though they may have gotten the password, it's not just a straight walk into the admin panel.
WordPress login cookie that can be used to become admin.
Of course, if you do so, then you won't know that someone's gotten your admin password. So it's a good idea to change it regularly.
What JohnWeb said. And Scottie said.
I do value Spinn as a place where I can get an overview of what's happening out there. But lately there are too many of the "5 Ways to ..." titles which I find monumentally irritating.
The problem is, I guess, to come up with material that people who've been at this for a while might find interesting and useful.
Aw, we don't need shoes. It's lovely here in SoCal right now (near Magic Mountain), and we're in shorts and T-shirts. Can't beat it.
Congrats, Danny. Wait til your kids see all there is to do here. And what it's like in the spring and summer.
(And I'm hoping for conferences that are a little closer than, say, a few thousand miles.)
Yes, not to mention that at some point, you have to actually update multiple blogs (and I have a few), which means that if that isn't your only endeavor (you have a job, too?), then you'll be a pretty busy puppy.
I'm with you, Kim. There's just so much time I can devote to social sites, let alone social site upon social site.
As well, with forums, you can pop in and see what's going on. But it seems like the nature of social sites is that you have to keep on top of them every second -- it's a rather breathless thing. Or maybe that's just how I see them. :)
Anyway ...
> Wordpress on the other hand has a set theme for its backend which cannot be changed.
I haven't found that to be true at all.
Story: CSS Seo-Friendly Designs
Hm. My anti-virus program (Kaspersky) threw a hissy on that link. Kaspersky is pretty good (see virus.gr); said it was a trojan download and blocked it.
Could it be wrong?
Story: CSS Seo-Friendly Designs
Sorry to say it, but Kaspersky identifies this as:
detected: Trojan program Trojan-Clicker.HTML.IFrame.gt
If you don't intend to have that on your site, you might take a look at it to see if anything's amiss.
Okay. But bear in mind that it isn't "tables versus CSS" because CSS can be used with tables, just as it can be used with divs or any other HTML container. I think it's just that people sometimes get lazy about how to describe ... what they're describing.
By the way, although I think divs/CSS is the way to go, it has been said (and repeated ad infinitum) that tables were never "intended" for layout purposes. However, I did run across a discussion somewhere (I'll try to dig that up) where someone who was at the actual event where tables were introduced said that layout *was* one of the suggested uses of tables. That kind of shot down that (tired old) argument.
That said, given the increasing numbers of devices used to access the Web, I prefer divs for layout as a more flexible way to go -- and for devices to read websites.
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