Willy Dobbe - webhosting

Drupal and godaddy.com

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:17:16 +0200

Over at consumerist is some bad press on Drupal

GoDaddy demanded $6,579 from Adam Fendelman after his disk usage skyrocketed to over 250 GB without warning, vastly exceeding his account's 150 GB allowance. GoDaddy's security department launched a "full-scale investigation" and quickly determined that Adam was responsible for both the data binge and the extraordinary bill. Adam refused to let the matter drop...

The massive data splurge was apparently caused by a bug in the widely-used open source website management software Drupal, which, like a cancerous tumor, was unstoppably copying thousands of temporary files into Adam's account.

Short story: someone used lots of local disk space on godaddy's hosting service caused by a bug in Drupal? Apart from the fact that GoDaddy should have set a quota, should have had procedures and transparent billing / monitoring mechanisms, Drupal a "cancerous tumour"?

Anyone knows what was happening here? Is GoDaddy blaming Drupal and why? Core? Module? I sure as hell /never/ saw Drupal eat 250GB harddisk space and I would like to know what was happening and if it has nothing to do with Drupal- as would be the case I think- that this news should be corrected ASAP.

BTW: 100GB of storage is 6.000 Dollar over at GoDaddy? Another reason to stay away from GoDaddy like "the plague"!

Dries on the Advisory Council of the Open Source Lab

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:15:52 +0200

What do Apache, Perl, Drupal, the Linux operating system, Google, Novell, Acquia and Joost have in common?

Leaders of these companies / Open Source projects are now all on the advisory council of the OSUOSL as you can read on the advisory page at OSUOSL and Oregonlive.com

OSUOSL is -for those who don't know- the hosting and housing party of many open source projects, such as Linux (the kernel), MythTV, Mozilla, Apache, Gnome and yes... Drupal!

Dries on the advisory council is great recognition of his talents but more, important for Drupal. We -the Drupal community- now have a more direct line towards the OSUOSL, more the "just" on the operational level we now have a line towards a more tactical / strategical level. That and Dries (and thereby the Drupal community) now has an even better connection towards Apache, Perl, the Linux operating system, Google, Novell and Joost.

I have been in datacentre and Internet routing for a bigger part of my career and the service we get from OSUOSL is worth a couple of k's per month, and we get that for free! So you might want to sponsor rack 2 of OSUOSL and thereby getting even closure to Drupal!

Congrats to Dries (well deserved) and good news for Drupal as well!

When webpages become webapplications... the influence on statistics.

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:07:46 +0200

When web pages become web applications. Then page reloads are history and you interact with your webapplicationin your browser in the page and with AJAX/AHAH you will get the data in and out of the page. Nothing new, that is what the marketeers label web 2.0.

But when users interact with pages without having to reload ... when pages become application .. this also means that traditional ways of measuring user activity that are hosted and used as a service, such as Google Analytics, will not be able to tell you what a user has done on a ~~page~~application.

There used to be a time when the success of a website was measured in "hits", way back in the nineties. Then -due to the fact webpages consisted of many HTML elements like Cascading Style Sheets- the success was measured in pageviews. For the last couple of years, the success is measured in unique visitors since advertisers are not that interested in serving the same ad for the 10th times to the same person. And now, due to AJAX, we have to find a new way of measuring the success of webapplication.

Yahoo! understands this and has been offering Yahoo! User Interface services for some time now for free that can be used by a webmaster to give a more rich feeling towards the user. This way, Yahoo still gets to see who is doing what on a website and can offer this as a Analytics competitor as well as use the data for having a better advertising offering with behavioral targeting. The downside is however that to make your pages application, you do more then some icing on the cake; User Interface gadgets are nice. But the real deal is in enriching your data for webapplication use, not just your user interface.

AJAX-As-A-Service (as a new way of Server Based Computing) suffers the same problems as the old way of doing Server based Computing like Citrix has; looking to the world through a straw. Local data and terminal screens from remote do not mix well; a document that is saved on a local harddisk and accessed via a terminal service application still need lots of bandwidth and leads to high latency. The same kind of poblems you encounter when you use hosted AJAX service that are not integrated with your site; the (meta)data of the user is on the webserver and the AJAX application is served from another webserver not able to access all rich metadata.

Therefor only websites that are based on a Content Management Systems that is old will use these kind of services, modern CMS-es like Drupal ship with their own plug-able extend-able AJAX library. And if that CMS enables you to turn a web-page into a webapplication, you have two options to have the right statistics based on the right data; logging from the CMS or raw logging from your website. Drupal never has been good in providing logging analyses; it is good for technical webmasters but the analyses is not usefull at all for marketeers and managers. Analysing raw logging yourself is IMHO still the best way; you also get to see those firefox users that block urchin or have the best firefox plugin aivalble installed. However, it takes time and most of the reporting is by far not as fancy as Google Analytics.

So we will see how AJAX will influence web-analytics, maybe CMS-es will provide better statistics?

Forrester brings Drupal in the boardroom

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:27:23 +0200

Selling Drupal. Not a contradiction but not as easy as selling a license of a proprietary CMS. Selling something that is "free" (gratis) seems like an odd idea to many. So how do we get our beloved Drupal CMS spread in a broader range that home blogs, new media sites and the like?

Well, some prospects have functional requirements for their CMS like "It has to start with a D and end with Drupal". Usually there is a passionate user somewhere in the ICT department that convinced some people to go for Drupal. And while this technocratic approach does have its drawbacks, it is a good way to gain more ground and bring Drupal on a higher level.

But most of the time the prospect "just wants a CMS". And since there are zillions of Open Source CMS-es it is hard to choose. Most OSS CMS-es do not have a local "sales" so the company will end up with a proprietary CMS that is years lagging, only have a dozen developers and a couple of hundreds users but with a sales person that is a member of the same club as the CEO.

However, now most bigger companies are moving towards their third CMS implementation, people know what they want from a CMS and people are actually looking for an Open Source CMS and hence an Open Source implementer like my employer is in the Netherlands. And those bigger enterprises all read Gartner, Forrester, MetaGroup and other IT research and advisory companies. I have a very strong opinion about those companies (just echoing yesterdays news for companies that will be in today by tomorrow) but that is a different story. In the boardroom magic quadrants, hype cycles and two by two tables are the goal for any powerpoint wisdom, so if you want to be in the boardroom you have to play chess on the management chessboard; a 2 x 2 matrix.

CNet (writing many rtiles about Drupal in a positive way!) has a piece called Forrester calls out Alfresco and Drupal as the top-two open-source WCM systems. This is really /great/ news, instant boardroom Fähigkeit for Drupal. Forrester says so so we need Drupal!

You can read the excerpt of the report over at Forrester:

This document answers frequently asked questions about the role that open source plays in the WCM market.

You have to pay for the real article but even without reading 20 pages about community, functionality etc, I think it is fine to say that Drupal will be a word you can say in the boardroom from now on. "Could you please fill my cup with some coffee Drupal's" for example.

Thanks to Kieran and others who gave input for the report

RTL nieuws heeft een leuke iPhone aware site

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:13:46 +0200

Ondanks de mini safari op de iPhone de beste mobile browser is die ik ken -100% bruikbaar op elke non flash site- kan het handig zijn om voor mobile gebruikers (zoals iPhone beztters) andere content en layout aan te bieden.

Zo is ene mobiele gebruiker waarschijnlijk minder in to achtergronden van het nieuws maar wil wel easy digestable (nu.nl alike ) nieuws zien, het weer en de file meldingen. En omdat de 2G(eneratie) iPhone met 3G(generatie) UMTS nog niet in Nederland beschikbaar is, doet een site er goed aan de useragent van een browser op te vragen en andere content in een andere layout aan te bieden. Niet door een "m".example.com te doen maar door de gebruiker contekst aware content en layout te geven; als op een iPhone op lage snelheid dan een kleine eenvoudige pagina, als op een JS enabled browser een rijke AJAX applicatie.

En dat is precies wat RTL nieuws doet, ga op je iPhone naar de site en je krijgt de eenvoudige pagina in vorm en functie. Goed gedaan!

Drupal.nl is now owned by Dries Buytaert

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:09:27 +0200

As people know from reading the footer on Drupal.org, Dries is the owner of the trademark "Drupal". Trademarks -and law in general- are complicated; not something every Drupal coder, tester, user might understand or is even interested in.

However, there are always people that are not interested in the community, do not care about the law, but only care for themselves. They want to make money abusing the assets of the Drupal community and not by using it, contributing to it.

One of those kinds of people registered Drupal.nl some time ago, claiming it was an internal name for a service called "Domain name Registration tool Using PHP And Linux... And ran an anti Open Source CMS site on the domain claiming that Open Source solution where thousands of people are working on and millions of people use every day, could never be as good as his own home made CMS.

Dries wrote this man a letter, a letter stating that Dries as the owner of the Drupal trademark would like to get the ownership of the domain. We had an agreement however, the man sold it to another person days before he would transfer the domain to Dries.

This new owner will be named here; Robert de Bock from Me in IT.nl. So we had to start again, contacting him. But Robert was different; he knows about Open Source, cares about Drupal and without any legal pushing transferred the domain free towards Dries! So a big "Hooray" for Robert de Bock, a nice person that bought in good faith the Drupal.NL domain and when Dries contacted him handed al rights of the domain to Dries!

krokodil-boerland-home:~ bert$ whois drupal.nl
Domain name:
drupal.nl

Status: active

Registrant:
BUY000971-LEASE
D Buytaert
...
Administrative contact:
BUY000943-LEASE
D. Buytaert
...

If you visit Drupal.NL right now, it will be redirected to the Dutch Drupal.BE site. This might or might not change in the future, that is up to Dries. But at least we do not have a Drupal.NL site running on the web claiming that Open Source is bad.

Thank you Robert for contributing the domain to Dries and thereby to the bigger Drupal community!

The first owner? Lets forget about him.
The windmill? It's located in the village I live and just there as a cliché. We do not walk on wooden shoes, we don not life in windmills and we do not smoke weed. But we do care about Drupal and domain names.

De Volkskrant heeft het zwaar, tieten op de voorpagina

Tue, 20 May 2008 17:27:00 +0200

Wat doe je als krant als de omzet daalt, de kosten stijgen er de abbonees "ietsje wegholen? Dan gooi je het laatste wapen in de strijd dat je nog hebt.

Kwaliteit? Nee!
Auto's dan? Hmm, goede richting!
Borsten? Sure thing!

Neem nu dit plaatje. Met een beschrijving als:

Een van de tienduiizenden fans...

Als er 10.000 mensen staan, waarom dan deze foto gemaakt die niets met het evenement te maken heeft? Waarom je zelf etaleren op de "voorpagina" als een 80 jarige botox Dolly Parton? Nee, de VK heeft het zwaar en grijpt naar pagina 3 om haar problemen op de voorpagina zichtbaar te maken.

En dit is zeer zeker geen incident. Al een tijdje valt me op dat het blok onderaan de vk.nl pagina dat gaat naar HartenZiel een van de twee keer behoorlijk sexueel geaard is. Alles voor de hits...

En als ik als fijnproever dan nog even mag zeggen: dit is geen F(A) cup maar een magere ge-wonderbra-de C cup. Niets bijzonders...

With pressreleases like this...

Mon, 19 May 2008 17:27:07 +0200

The Drupal Association has two main goals:

To facilitate the Drupal community
To protect the Drupal community and her assets

Communication and hence promotion is an important part of making sure we get closure to reaching our goals. And for that, we write press releases for important Drupal (community) events, for example the release of Drupal 6.

I am not a big supporter of the idea that the Association has to do payed press-releases, for example pay a news agency like PRNewswire to spread the word. IMHO we should use the power of the community to spread the word, the quality of the product to speak for itself and use mouth to mouth for getting our product out there. I know that the Association is not a community and in fact more "a corporate" but we (the Association) should align with our biggest asset: the community. Not with some press agency; our proprietary friends can do that better and the commercial Drupal shops will as well. In fact some of them have been making lots of waves with the press releases.

But with press releases like this one from Mediacurrent the Drupal Association has a lot less work to do. I quote:

Drupal's powerful taxonomy system, fine grained security, and distributed architecture made it a natural choice to capture the in-depth functionality Carlos was looking for.

and

...the Drupal CMS will now allow Emory administrators to seamlessly update and edit content within their site.

The release looks more pro Drupal then pro Mediacurrent or the site they made.... hold on... there is not even a link towards the site they have been building? And as a logo, they did not use their client's or their own, but have chosen our Druplicon?

So thank you Mediacurrent for choosing Drupal and promoting it. You might as well join our marketing team. Really

BTW: Did anyone else notice that the Pagerank of Drupal.org went down from 9 to 8? Oooh my, the sky is falling.

BTW2: My official function within the Association is now Rabble Rouser, "see" podcast 58 from Lullabot. Thanks Earl!

CBS in de buurt, RSS en een braindead webmaster

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:45:21 +0100

Best een aardige site, CBS in de Buurt. Waar je statistische informatie over een wijk kan verkrijgen geplot op Google Maps. Het zou van mij wat minder AJAXy mogen van mij maar leuk gedaan. Alleen...

Klik op RSS onderaan de pagina en wat verwacht je? Precies, een validerende RSS feed. En wat krijg je? Een greybox effectje met een pagina waar het nieuws van de site op staat. Please webmaster.. Ale je niet weet wat RSS is, val dan terug op het animated "NEW" gifje van web 0.1 maar ga niet onze standaarden vervuilen met je "nieuws".

Twitter using Amazons' S3

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:25:10 +0100

While changing the background picture of my twitter profile, I noticed that Twitter is using S3 as their CDN/storage solution. Now I know that lost of companies (including a small division of Microsoft) are using S3 but this seems like a rather big implementation for S3. It is weird to see how Amazon has changed its core competence from selling books to providing services. Or maybe, made the services they developed for selling books a commercial service as well.

In unrelated twitter news, see also the twitter100.com service for my tweets.

Bert Boerland is moving towards Dutch Open Projects (DOP.nu)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:31:03 +0100

The short story:
I will join Dutch Open Projects, DOP.nu. A 20 person PHP shop that offers SugarCRM, Joomla!, Symphony, Zend … and Drupal in the Netherlands!

The long story:
I started working in 1996 at PinkElephant, a student founded IT company in the Netherlands, hence the name. My first job was as a contractor to help out at one of the Global Network Management Centre’s of AT&T in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I think my first GNU/Linux slackware installs date back from that time. I learned a lot about Unixes, Cisco’s IOS, TCP/IP and managing firewalls. Remember that back in the mid 90-ies, the concept of "firewalls" was still catching on, it was for sure not a widespread best practice. I even remembered a funny trick back then, SGI (for the youngsters, think a hip machine like a Mac) was still a widespread used Unix and running many websites. You could use telnet (yes, unencrypted telnet!) towards such a box and login as the line printer daemon (lpt) that had default no password and a shell! All you had to do was use your favorite search engine, atltavista back in those days, and "google" for "powered by SGI" and you were in.

After my contract at AT&T, I worked internally at Pink’s emerging internet division. However, there was not much internet there, mostly managing Novell boxes. I disliked office automation in general and Novell in particularly so while I liked the young creative people, I went over to UniSource somewhere around 1998. Unisource was part of KPN. KPN just made the shift of a governmental owned telecom provider that had a monopoly on landlines towards a "commercial" company and UniSource was the datacommunication’s department. We managed dial in connections for nearly all ISP’s, managed the backbone of the Internet in the Netherlands. Like all providers UniSource was building a new network and when we rolled the network out, AS21286 was the fastest internetwork cloud in the world, using Packet over Sonnet with 2.5 Gbs per second in the core over Cisco 12016’s. Such a record was in those days beaten in a week, since everybody was rolling out "the new network". While I was in the networking team, the Unix team was only 5 meters away and I learned a lot about for example scaling transparent proxy’s as well.

Around 2000 I rejoined PinkElephant again, now part of Roccade and called PinkRoccade. I designed the new Internet infrastructure for them and was project lead for implementing it. I created a new AS and made the internet connections resilient via BGP4 and two independent upstream providers. After implementing this, my chief was smart enough to make me the manager of the network group and the Unix group. While I started managing the groups existed of only a dozen people, one year later I managed 30 people. During this time, around 2000/2001 I played around with PHPnuke and very soon after I stopped using that spaghetti code, I came across the drop.org website. Ever since that moment, I am more or less "active" in the Drupal community as a non coder. I had several functions after that moment, lead architect for a huge (20k plus seats) Server Based Computing environment, overpaid Business Consultant, speaker and for example active in (pre)sales. And during all these functions, I kept aligned to Drupal but never did anything with it professionally. I tried multiple times to introduce Drupal in my company and some customers. But the timing was wrong and the tool didn’t fit my employer at that time, who is one of the biggest Microsoft implementers in the world.

A year or so ago, I was fed up with my employer. I will not go in to details about why I wanted to leave the company since that would be very unprofessional but two things were most important and I would like to point out. PinkRoccade was bought by Getronics and Getronics lacks any kind of vision; the people in charge are basically there because of a bet gone wrong I presume since they must have been one of the most empty heads I ever met. I like to think / act that all people I meet are smarter then me but that was not the case at all when I spend some time at the headquarters of Getronics. The other reason is that the lack of vision of Getronics shows most when it comes to the IT; they focus completely on Office Automation, the desktop and hence on Microsoft products. In a world that is changing to services instead of clients, de jeure standards in stead of de facto standards and open instead of close, a wrong vision were I don’t want o be part of anymore. Luckily my network (see linkedin is after more then a decade in ICT with lots of contacts with customers and vendors good and –not to brag- I get a call from a headhunter every week or so. So when a small company that is implementing exclusively Open Source solutions came across my path, I decided to go there; I am joining Dutch Open Projects (dop.nu)! Nu btw is "now" in Dutch so it was a popular TLD some years ago in the Netherlands.

DOP is a 20+ person company, specialized in PHP. We do frontend (Joomla!, Drupal), midoffice (Drupal, Zend) and backend (SugarCRM, Symphony) implementations. I will be evangelizing Drupal for customers, working on sales, doing consultancy and leading projects. And hopefully, have a good time.

I always worked for employers with a couple of thousands employees, PinkElephant 1.500, PinkRoccade 10k, Getronics-PinkRoccade 20k and now Getronics-PinkRoccade is part of KPN that has some 30k employees. I am really looking forward to working over at DOP with only 20 people. No more making business plans in powerpoint (we use OO.org and don’t plan that way) but doing and making business in a more agile.

Now –after some 6 or 7 years of helping the community- it will sure be different to make money with Drupal. I hope that I will be able to keep the same independent attitude I had in the past as a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association. Please correct me anytime in the future if you think that I am mixing the community and business, slap me, hit me and correct me. I need you to do that. Ooh, and thanks to all of you who SMS-ed me, send me postcards and mail to congratulate me. I really appreciated that. And I sure will miss my nice colleagues over at Getronics-PinkRoccade, Dr John and Alessio to name two.

I was planning on making a videocast but the amount of post production was too much, kudos to everyone investing so much time in them!

KickApps Single Sign On with Drupal

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:11:23 +0100

Over at businesswire.com you can read the pressrelease of KickApps and how it integrates with Drupal for the identity management part.

KickApps [...] today announced the availability of a Single Sign-On (SSO) module that enables a seamless member login experience between Drupal powered sites and KickApps hosted social media sites.

KickApps is an ASP service (nowadays people prefer to call it SaaS) that enables easy integration of rich media. Mind you, all that KickApps does can be done within Drupal but is sure more easy to use this as a service from someone else for the SoHo market.

The downside however of using an ASP webservice is that there is no integration with your own site. No:

cosmetic (look and feel) integration
meta data integration and
user / identity integration

The first one can be solved by sharing CSS files, the second one is hard but most people -even information managers- do not understand why the lack of meta data integration is bad. The last one is the real problem, you want personalization with identity integration and a seamless experience for the user. KickApps now released a Drupal module to enable this last point, identity integration from Drupal to KickApps.

You can read about how to integrate your Drupal site and KickApps at Kickdeveloper and download the Drupal module over there (rightly GPLv2 licensed).

Personally I dont care much for this service but any service that helps to let Drupal grow in any direction is welcomed by me.

Room 404 not found...

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:35:44 +0100

There is an old urban myth about the "404 not found" status code of HTTP where the webserver can not find the document you are searching for. The myth is that there was a room 404 in CERN (where HTTP/HTML was born) where Tim Berners Lee had his office and was seldom there. So you would find nothing/no-one in room 404 and that is why the status code not found came from.

This room404.com site even claims that it was the "central database" in room 404:

In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide Web's central database: any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request.

Even funnier, yet not true.

There is no room 404 at the CERN and the error codes are ordered (4xx being "user error") like the ftp error codes made in 1985 when there was no "web" yet. Sorry, there is no 404 in the champagne room.

Over auteursrecht, bloggers en bloggers die schrijven over bloggers

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:16:26 +0100

Intellectueel Eigendom in blog land. Complexe materie.. Een zaak waar je als leek in feite niet mee moet bemoeien als mag je natuurlijk een mening hebben. Meningen heb ik genoeg dus laat ik mijn duit in het zakje doen over een recente zaak die in de Nederlandse blogosphere haar kop op stak.

Marketingfacts heeft een stukje over een Nederlandse weblogger Cinner die een stuk integraal had over genomen van de NRC. Vervolgens zou een bedrijf in opdracht van de auteur haar "beboet" hebben met 500 Euro. Zie een aantal postings in deze van de originele blogger hier.

Intellectueel Eigendom in blog land. Complexe materie. Om eerste te reageren op de posting van cinner:

Ik heb er niet bij stil gestaan - en vele webloggers met mij denk ik - dat het hier een schending betrof.

Dit is typerend voor de huidige generatie. CD’s koop je niet maar download je en mensen denken dat dit legaal is. Ja het downloaden wellicht wel maar het bezit niet. En teksten schrijf je wel maar je gebruikt de kracht van een ander om het beter te maken. Typerend, niet goed of slecht perse. Maar wel typerend. We leven in een tijd waarin iedereen denkt of vindt dat informatie vrij moet zijn. Maar voornamelijk informatie van anderen, als je eigen postings ergens anders staan vindt men het wel een schande en staat de blogoshere op zijn kop. "Unilever gebruikt een CC not for commercial use foto van Flick in haar reclame campagne!" is een headline die eenvoudig op honderden blogs zou kunnen eindigen. Copyright wel voor "ons" maar niet voor "hun". Het feit dat je online eenvoudig hergebruik kan maken van de content van een ander maakt niet dat je het ook mag!

Intellectueel Eigendom in blog land. Complexe materie. In de blog posting van zowel about blank als het doorgaans zeer goede marketingfacts wordt gemeld dat de weblogger beboet is. Vanzelfsprekend is er maar een autoriteit die boetes kan uit delen, de rechtelijke macht. Niet een bedrijf als cozzmoss met een zwaar heersende FRAMES webiste in 2007. Cozzmoss kan natuurlijk wel eisen dat een stuk wordt weggehaald. ALS ze rechthebbende is of een rechthebbende vertegenwoordigd. Strik genomen kan ze het altijd eisen maar dat is nietig of vernietigbaar. En als ik het stuk op cinner goed lees, was Cozzmoss die de schrijver van het stuk uit de NRC vertegenwoordigde, niet PcM of NRC zelf. Dit is het eerste opmerkelijke feit. Het kan zijn dat de situatiue veranderd is, maar tot voor kort wouden de kranten van PcM altijd eigenaar zijn van de stukjes die in de krant staan, ook de stukjes van freelanchers, ook voor media anders dan de dode bomen ("krant") variant. Daar is vroeger een redelijke grote rechtzaak over geweest waar PcM liever niet meer aan herinnerd wordt en online probeert te wissen (zie ook mijn blog posting over PcM censureert haar eigen wikiperia lemma).

Stel dat het bedrijf in kwestie (het zwaar achterlijke cozzmoss) acteert namens de auteur. Dan is het nog steeds zeer waarschijnlijk een leeg dreigement want die auteur is zeer waarschijnlijk helemaal geen eigenaar van het stukje maar de NRC/PcM is de eigenaar. Cozzmoss noch de auteur kunnen dus eisen dat een stuk wordt weggehaald, althans die kan is zeer groot!

Wie zit achter cozzmoss? De WHOIS database zegt:

Registrant:
PRO007737-EXONT
Procez Deloranch
Vestdijk 218
5611CZ EINDHOVEN
Netherlands

Googlen naar Procez Deloranch levert niet veel op maar bladzijde2 is goed door te nemen. Een raar bedrijf van mevrouw Irene van den Berg. Een leek (freelanch schrijfster) met een zeer bedenkelijke manier van inkomsten deling en zwakke juridische basis. Als ik auteur was zou ik zeker niet met haar in zee gaan.

Intellectueel Eigendom in blog land. Complexe materie. Even terug naar de marketingfacts posting.

Er was geen mailtje van de auteur met het verzoek het artikel (wat diep in het archief zat en nooit meer werd opgevraagd) te verwijderen.

Een rare constatering. Voor de meeste webloggers geldt dat 90% van het bezoek van een search engine komt en niet naar de voorpagina gaat maar naar het archief. Tenzij enkel je moeder, je oma en een geheime aanbidder je voorpagina volgen en je CMS niet de mogelijkheid heeft om permalinks te gebruiken en data van goede metadata te voorzien. "Ver weggestopt” geldt voor offline publicaties, op pagina 10 staat minder belangrijk nieuws dan op pagina een. Maar het geldt niet online, zeker niet voor weblogs.

Laten we de zaak nog eens ingewikkelder maken. Stel dat de weblogger in kwestie niet het artikel manueel had gekopieerd maar via een RSS feed geautomatiseerd had ingelezen van de NRC site. En stel dat de NRC een full nieuwsfeed zou geven en niet slechts een teaser (ankeiler in oud uitgeversland genoemd). En stel dat de RSS feed lezer die op de website van de blogger zou staan niet zou "purgen" maar alle artikelen uit de feed zou opslaan in "het archief". Zou het dan nog steeds een copyright schending zijn? Enkel de techniek is anders (RSS versus HTML) en de manier van importeren (automatisch versus manueel bewust). Ik ben benieuwd wat een rechter daarvan zou vinden.

Intellectueel Eigendom in blog land. Complexe materie. Maar resumerend:

Webloggers die schrijven over webloggers –en dat ben ik ook- hebben te weinig kennis van deze materie. Woorden als "boete", "verweggestopt in het archief" zijn zinloos
Het is maar de vraag of het dubieuze bedrijf Cozzmoss de rechthebbende vertegenwoordigt
We kunnen als blogoshere allemaal het artikel in kwestie een op een plaatsen op onze blog. Kijken wat er dan gaat beuren? Wat zijn uw gedachten in deze?

disclaimer: ik ben ook een leek op het gebied van Intellectueel Eigendom. Dit is een mening en geen juridisch advies. IANAL

Ber Kessels and cow-worker with Drupal humour

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:41:23 +0100

A friend: "I just made a function that takes the teaser out of the body it is called strip_teaser hahaha".

— Ber Kessels on IRC talking about a co(w)-worker while making meer.trouw.nl