More LOL Theorists, Now with Self-Reflexivity!
I am more than litte pleased to see my two LOL Therorist Henry Jenkins pictures have come to Henry’s attention and he’s actually reposted them in his own blog!
Of course, that couldn’t possible be the end of the circle, so …
Make sure you continue to tune in to LOL Theorists for all the academic hijinx; or, if you’re really busy, perhaps just check out the Henry Jenkins channel! š
links for 2007-06-05
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“Andrew Michael Baron, who has been publicly opining about new models for monetizing online video, announced today his pioneering video show Rocketboom is launching a sponsorship system, with YouTube being the first participant, starting tomorrow.:
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A look at the privacy concerns raised by Google’s ‘Street View’ function in Google Maps. Lists (and links) to a number of the revealing moments of life captures by Googles roaming digital eyes.
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“When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton asked YouTube viewers to vote on a theme song for her presidential campaign, she certainly got the attention she wanted ā and a whole lot of jokes at her expense.”
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“Mark Zuckerberās very interesting pitch to 800 developers at the San Francisco Design Center about Facebook Platform is available on video. Here are some of the highlights: * Facebook adds over 100,000 users per day …”
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Christy Dena takes a look at how “filmmakers are thinking beyond the film” across various media, platforms and approaches, arguing for convergent production from day one:”Filmmakers don’t create films anymore, they create worlds.”
links for 2007-06-04
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Well, something really good did come out of the hoax Dutch “Kidney Donor Show”. Not only did the show did create (worldwide) awareness of the scarcity of donor organs, but 12,000 TV viewers signed up by text messaging to become future donors.
links for 2007-06-03
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This is what would happen if this blog was written by the LOL CATS! (Created using http://lol.ianloic.com/.) [Via]
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“Tim O’Reilly…has posted a tremendous case study on a book that was available as a free download as well as available in stores. The case study isn’t iron-clad proof that giving away books sells books, but it’s the best evidence I’ve seen to date.”
Upgrades, Deletions, Apologies … and a Little Anger
Visitors to this blog may have noticed many things broken or not got anything but a 404 for the last 12 hours. My apologies – most is now fixed, but let me explain. Last night, about 5 minutes before I went to bed, I got this email:
from: “support@secureserver.net” <support@secureserver.net>
subject: Update [Incident ID: 2110748] – Information Regarding Your Account for tamaleaver.netSupport Staff Response
Dear Sir/Madam,
It has come to our attention that your tamaleaver.net hosting account is running a vulnerable version of wordpress. This has caused an attacker to upload malicious content to your hosting account. We have removed the malicious content and have disabled the vulnerable script.
To prevent further attacks, we request that you update your version of wordpress as soon as possible. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Regards,
Advanced Hosting Support
I was a little surprised since I was running 2.1.3 which, to the best of my knowledge, was fine (and I was not running the buggy 2.1.1). However, I figured I’d check in the morning what had been deleted – I presumed a script that wasn’t part of the standard WordPress world, so that was fine. However, to my horror this morning when I checked, I found that “support” (and I use the term very broadly) had done at least two things: deleted my entire wp-admin directory, and deleted a number of image files (the reason for which I can’t even begin to fathom). As a result, this blog has been rather stuffed for the last 12 hours. Since it was broken anyway, I’ve now upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and got almost everything back and running. However, a month’s worth of uploaded images were deleted, and I’ve not backed up since the end of April, so they can’t be recovered (thus, if you find a blog post with an image missing … primarily from posts in May 2007, this is why; I’ll try and replace them at a later stage.)
So, sorry for the downtime, if I had any control over it I’d promise it wouldn’t happen again! That said, the support folk at secureserver (whom GoDaddy use) will be getting a rather frank email about the over-deletion of my files, and, more to the point, a request to exactly what they think happened since I’ve seen no evidence myself of any malicious content.
links for 2007-06-02
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“Sad but true: “Battlestar Galactica” will end its run next year after its fourth and final season.”
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NYTimes on Google’s StreetView: ‘āThe issue that I have ultimately is about where you draw the line between taking public photos and zooming in on peopleās lives,ā Ms. Kalin-Casey said.’
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“Korea has just finished negotiating a free trade agreement with the US that is a complete disaster on copyright. Korea has agreed to give up all fair use to copyrighted works, and has agreed to shut down many of its web-hosting businesses.”
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“The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them.”
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