Blog is back up

Nov 19 2016

I needed to update/upgrade some components and could not get them to play along with the operating system of the server, neither upgrade the server as there were no viable upgrade path, I spun up a new virtual machine and installed whatever needed.

This move broke the blog when I switched over and just an hour ago I fixed the blog and upgraded everything, some 8 months of down time. No one complained during this time so it is possible no one is actually reading this.

Anyway, new posts will appear.

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Sun-down for old URLs

Apr 23 2015

Ok, so almost 5 years (redirected 2010-04-25) have passed since moving MediaCreeper to its own domain(s) .. tonight the redirect was removed from the earlier URLs http://b19.se/mediacreeper/ which now responds with 410 Gone.

If it stopped working for you – update!

You’ve only had 5 years as sun-down, go to http://mediacreeper.com/howto – copy and paste the HTML to replace the old code.

TL;DR
If your MediaCreeper-button does not load or does not show, check if it is linked as http://www.b19.se/mediacreeper/image or anything else is linked as http://www.b19.se/mediacreeper/ .. everything there is gone since 2015-04-23 23:30:00 UTC+0200.

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Press and blogs

Dec 23 2014

I removed the page since it hadn’t been updated since 2010 – nothing much written about MediaCreeper at the moment, it has just been removed visually, it’s still there if something would happen.

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CreeperPing, the WordPress Plugin rebooted

Dec 23 2014

Yeah, about that…
I’ve started to code on it again, after being busy with lots of other stuff in my life, like having a son, getting married .. that sort of stuff.

The core parts are pretty much done, working on some authentication parts now and adapting/adjusting the plugin with the rewamped API.

In short; media houses will not able to block traffic to MediaCreeper – as some actually are doing to avoid showing up on lists on MediaCreeper. A visit from a media house on a blog where the CreeperPing plugin is installed, will be transferred directly from the blog-hosting server to MediaCreeper, without passing the media house so there is nothing for them to block or filter.

A few selected friends will be beta-testing after the holidays, or whenever I had the time to complete the code and internal testing.

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Html 5 and API

May 06 2014

I’ve started toying around with yet another incarnation of MediaCreeper, to conserve bandwidth, make it fit better on mobile devices and to learning new technology.

Working on the internals at the moment,  updating the API to handle requests from the Html 5 frontend.

More details later.

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Hickups

Jan 03 2013

MediaCreeper were somewhat broken the last couple of days due to a crashed table in MySQL, which in turn made the logging functions freak out and no referrers were saved, hence the amounts of “(unknown/hidden referrer)”. Also causing some errors to show as joins with broken tables and indexes ate a lot of memory.

Table repaired, memory added and a few other tweaks, should hold up now as there seem to be a lot more traffic, as there has been a WordPress plugin released that accesses the API to gather data and display in the WP Admin interface. Would also be great if the plugin could add a reference to the tracking image somewhere so the blogs using it also could be found in the logs… 😉

This pushes some issues for further development up the todo list; MongoDb and minimize the memory footprint for the code base .. maybe even prepare/adapt for cloud-based hosting.

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New ranges on the way

Sep 14 2012

After a long period of inactivity, at least visible inactivity, we have got a bunch of new ranges and are also starting a round of evaluation of old ranges.

Work has started to clean up code, to prepare release of CreeperFramework as open source on github. Further ahead the database layer is gonna get an overhaul, a switch from MySQL to mongodb.

An evaluation of the usage of the API-site to determine if it’s worth the effort to convert it to node.js or not.

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Our presence on Facebook

Mar 04 2012

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!

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CreeperPing, the WordPress plugin

Feb 22 2012

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.

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USA, the land of the free .. or not

Feb 05 2012

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.

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