We had a Facebook Group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/45274699051/, which were emptied when Facebook decided to change format/layout/whatever .. a few people found their way back to the group.
As the Facebook Pages is a bit more user friendly, like in “just click [Like] to join”, we started one at https://www.facebook.com/MediaCreeper.
Enjoy!
I got a message from a friend on twitter the other day, about the WordPress plugin I was developing a while ago. Up to now, it has stalled, completely, as the development of the API-site/service of the CreeperFramework went high priority the plugin were left behind, none of the API-calls that made it tick are the same, so I’ll have to rewrite those parts.
The CreeperPing plugin for WordPress is a simple way to evade filtering and blocking that some media houses do, as communication happens server-to-server, then they can block MediaCreeper all they want, their trails will still be visible..
I’ve never written a complete WordPress plugin from scratch, only hacked up existing ones beyond recognition, this will be an interesting journey. I’ve got professional WP-developers to hold my hand while coding and hopefully it’ll be done in the near future, a few weeks at most.
Found this blogpost on G+, Big brother now spies on journalists, keeps records of online activity which led to DHS: Privacy Investigations & Compliance Reviews, could not let this go without atleast a comment.
In the US, it’s now ‘OK’ to spy on journalists online. Yup, the journalists is now lumped together with terrorists and organized crime.
When I started MediaCreeper, it were aimed at journalists at big media-houses in Sweden, as a reaction on lack of reaction from the ‘fourth estate’ and individual journalists when repressive laws were about to be signed. Since then it’s been up over 1200 days on the internet.
I’m all for journalism and investigative work/groundwork for deep and analytical articles, which often require people inside companies, personnel in governmental settings to be able to speak with journalists without reprisals — informants who step forward in short.
This development in the USA is really disturbing, the USA lowers itself to the level of dictator-led states where the media is controlled and censored or completely taken over and used as a propaganda apparatus. This is bad, really bad.
After last incident I’ve been keeping an eye on the server, the traffic generates huge log files which almost filled up the disk, even when rotating them each day…
So, all logging has been turned off completely .. not that it was ever used for anything else than checking the flow of requests .. but ~4Gb logs aren’t practical to handle. All the Apache logs are gone, hello disk space!
Hopefully, the server will be somewhat more stable from now on ..
This evening I browsed some sites and noticed they had the MediaCreeper badge on them, I clicked on them and came to a completely blank page, WTH?! Tried to reload the page, no success.
Fired up SSH to connect to the server, logged in and found the disk full. Stupid mistake, I know.
When I configured the server back in 2010 after moving it to a separate, dedicated VPS, I figured it’d only require about 20Gb of disk — I was wrong.
I nuked a few of the logfiles as they are not needed for every day use and freed up some space, tweaked logrotate a bit and still had > 60% disk usage. Added some more disk and holding thumbs.
MediaCreeper shuffles ~50Gb/month at the moment, I moved it off my other hosting when it touched 20Gb/month .. It have more than doubled in traffic since 2010, popular service eh?
Now it should run without filling up the disk for a while, unless it touches 70Gb/month or in that area..
Yup, here you go .. the last of our Spotify invite codes, all 18 of them. For your pleasure.
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Consider it an early XMas gift… or something.
Yesterday something went horribly wrong, a simple reboot of the server turned into a lengthy downtime due to losing most IPv4 connectivity while still having spotty IPv6 connectivity.
We lost about 12 hours of traffic/logging and we’re really sorry about that.
Just found this page on Flattr, https://flattr.com/profile/mediacreeper, which list details about the flattrs we at MediaCreeper have gotten .. We likes!
The donations we receive through Flatter is not close to cover the costs of running MediaCreeper, but we feel that every little penny is encouragement. We’re working on updates, quite busy at the moment.
Yup, now MediaCreeper has a +1 button. Clickety click-click-click!
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… and don’t forget to add the MediaCreeper tracker code to your blog. Enjoy!
Update: All Spotify invite codes has been used up.
MediaCreeper Blog is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache