RasterWeb!Oh sure, you are left wondering, what is lightnet? It’s something Lucas Gonze is attempting to define, and I must say we are quite pleased to see that the tinkernet Usage page is considered an example of lightnet…
A simple definition might be that a lightnet is the opposite of a darknet.
I came across this entry titled RSS Hijacking? A threat to podcast and blogging infrastructure? which brought up an interesting issue. Of course, I was too late, and eWeek wrote some crappy story about it titled Podcast Hijacked, Held for Ransom.
I say “crappy story” because it has these two bits:
Those who posted responses to Vogele’s Weblog entry on the matter suggested other defensive strategies. One is to rename Podcast audio files on occasion and point to the new names in the legitimate RSS feed, thus causing the malicious site’s RSS feed to stop working and hence to cease gaining popularity.
Another tactic is to look at the referrer’s tags for Podcast downloads in a Podcaster’s Web server logs. Names of malicious sites that point to a Podcast will come up in the logs, and a large number of off-site listener referrals should raise flags.
Which I think are both bad ideas, and won’t work. I explained why in my comments on the original post. (Sorry, can’t point you directly to my comments, as the pages comment permalinks are broken.)
And I remember saying last year that the whole “podkeyword” idea was a bad idea, and always remember folks, try to be in control of your URI‘s, all the cool kids are doing it.
Remember my issues with Sunbird 0.3 alpha1 and Upcoming.org?
Luckily some of those yahoos at Yahoo! know what they’re doing, and are pretty on the ball.
Now, as soon as they get all the timezone stuff straightened out, we can start to see the calendar files support start and end time for events… I’ll give them a month or two before I complain about it again! ;)
I’m not exactly sure what Renkoo is, but I should probably check out the Renkoo Blog and determine if I should take action to prevent them from using the name renko, which…. wait… they’re spelled differently. Never mind…
I’ve been using Sunbird for a long time. I like it. It’s nice. It’s got bugs, but that’s ok, they get fixed, it works good enough, and it’s open-source.
I’ve been a fan of Upcoming.org for a while now. they got bought by Yahoo! and I hoped it would go well. I still hope it will go well. Still, I’ll spill what the last week has brought.
I installed Sunbird 0.3 alpha1 last week. Unfortunately, all my Upcoming.org calendars broke. Ugh… I dig around, check release notes, try a few things, and… nothing. Am I the only one who uses Upcoming.org and Sunbird together?
Anyway, I don’t give up. I start hacking away at the calendars that are output from Upcoming.org, and I have a few ideas on what is going wrong. I first think it’s a Sunbird thing, since everything worked fine until I upgraded to the latest version. I figure I’ll submit a bug, I mean edit the Bug_Reports wiki page at Upcoming.org (Note: A wiki might not be the best thing for tracking bugs) but get no response. I end up adding to the wiki everytime I learn something. Oh, and it’s a good thing the Sunbird folks do use a real bugtracker, as the bug I submitted to Bugzilla clued me in on the problem.
Of course I figured out a workaround. I mean, I didn’t want to wait for a new release of Sunbird, or wait for the Upcoming.org folks to fix things on their end, so I wrote a cgi on my own server that fetches the Upcoming.org calendar, and re-writes it so it works in Sunbird. Problem (somewhat/temporarily) solved.
I just sent a feedback email to Upcoming.org today. Let’s see what happens next. (I’m also wondering if this blog post will have any effect.)