Internet Madman – Tech & Web News

I often do keyword searches on the major search engines to determine my current position within them. I noticed that docstoc was embedding .pdf files I had created. Not only were they using my bandwidth, they were redirecting the internal links within the .pdf file to their own site.

How is this anything other than…
A.) BANDWIDTH THEFT
B.) COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
C.) OUTRIGHT LINK THEFT

Outrageous!

I sent them an email, and they removed the content, but what balls! Now I often use the meta information from websites to display information regarding websites I may or may not be linking to.

The difference is, META information is intended for use by bots. PDF files that authors create were never intended to be embedded and have their links redirected to another website. I would imagine someone will be suing the hell out of docstoc fairly quickly.

Anyone else have experience with the same problem from this website???

***Update***

As it turns out, they have a ton of additional filed from my website embedded in their website. What’s the difference in my putting an Iframe in my website and redirecting their links with JavaScript? Not freakin much I can tell you, and anyone with an REASONABILITY will easily see it.

I’ve had to make an additional request to them, and will let you know how it turns out.

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I got to thinking about how wonderful the Internet would be if high speed internet was really that, HIGH SPEED. If upload speeds were as fast as download speeds, imagine the would be developers and service providers that would come out of the woodwork to produce new services, platforms, software, etc…

Of course the major high speed providers limit us. In turn I think they limit innovation.

Of course you can always use a web host, but upload speed can sometime be a huge factor in whatever your doing.

I am currently uploading a million businesses via RSS XML to http://mybusiness-directory.com – It’s an arduous process due to limited upload speeds.

Wow Only 4934 more XML files to Go!

Then of course they’ll only be around 380,000 businesses available, then another round of export creation. (Which takes just minutes)

Post how you’ve been ,limited by upload speeds.

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If you are like me, you probably want your website to have excellent navigation, and let people know where they are on your website pretty much all the time.

SO I WAS LOOKING FOR A WAY TO DISPLAY SOME INFORMATION LIKE CATEGORY NAME IN WORDPRESS (to be a header for an ordered list of that category’s other posts.) That topic will be covered later by the way.

So I made it happen, but then my Word Press pages were showing the header for the category ‘uncategorized’ (Not cool!)

Here’s a good way to show the header on all pages except your main web pages.

global $post;
$category = get_the_category();
if ( is_page() ) {
}
else{
echo 'Posting Filed in ' .$category[0]->cat_name;
}
?>

***UPDATE***

The above code works great, but unfortunately I just noticed that it still shows up even if there are no posts in that category. That’s fine because I am using that page as an index page, and there aren’t supposed to be ‘POSTS’ in that category, however just having a header hanging out there is kind of stupid (that’s what I’m using this code for, a header in a widgetized sidebar)

Use this PHP instead…

global $post;
$category = get_the_category();
if ( is_page() ) {
}
else{
if ( have_posts() ) {
echo $category[0]->cat_name;
}
}
?>


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