Internet Madman – Tech & Web News

Well anyway, I’ve moved to the beach since my last post, and I’ve had to delay a ton of projects, as I’ve gained some meaningful work for a client, and I’m only one Internet Madman and therefore my time must be carefully managed, but I was noticing some meta tags on the New York Times website, (Not a fan of the NY Times) (to lefty for me…) and wondered if anyone had any meaningful insight as to the validity of these tags. After all they are a newspaper, and not I’m sure they’re more intended as extra data just to have extra data, but Post your comments if you have something to say about them. I’ve posted the tags for your reference. Thanks in advance for any info.

I’ve noticed they have some Trim() or Alltrim() or TrimLeft() or whatever code they be using issues!

<meta name=”DISPLAYDATE” content=”June 8, 2010″ />
<meta name=”hdl” content=”McDonald’s Offers Cash in Recall of Shrek Glasses” />
<meta name=”byl” content=”By WILLIAM NEUMAN” />
<meta name=”lp” content=”McDonald’s will pay $3, a bit over the top price of $2.49, for each glass.” />
<meta name=”cre” content=”The New York Times” />
<meta name=”edt” content=”NewYork” />
<meta name=”pdate” content=”20100608″ />
<meta name=”ttl” content=”" />
<meta name=”virtloc” content=”" />
<meta name=”des” content=”Recalls and Bans of Products;Glassware;Metals and Minerals” />
<meta name=”per” content=”" />
<meta name=”org” content=”McDonald’s Corp” />
<meta name=”geo” content=”" />
<meta name=”ticker” content=”McDonald’s Corp|MCD|NYSE” />
<meta name=”misspelling” content=”" />
<meta name=”dat” content=”June 8, 2010″ />
<meta name=”tom” content=”News” />
<meta name=”cat” content=”" />
<meta name=”col” content=”" />
<meta name=”dsk” content=”Business” />
<meta name=”articleid” content=”1247468009837″ />
<meta name=”ARTICLE_TEMPLATE_VERSION” CONTENT=”700″>
<meta name=”hdr_img” content=”/images/article/header/sect_business.gif” />
<meta name=”thumbnail” content=”" />
<meta name=”thumbnail_height” content=”" />
<meta name=”thumbnail_width” content=”" />
<meta name=”xlarge” content=”" />
<meta name=”xlarge_height” content=”" />
<meta name=”xlarge_width” content=”" />
<meta name=”sectionfront_jsonp” content=”http://json8.nytimes.com/pages/business/index.jsonp”>
<meta name=”CG” content=”business”>
<meta name=”SCG” content=”">
<meta name=”PT” content=”Article”>
<meta name=”PST” content=”News”>

Please do not try to post any political opinion here as in reply to the fact that I don’t care for the NY-based Newspaper.

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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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