Flickr now has built in stats for pro accounts! Pretty neato BUT you have to go specifically enable it. I checked out my referrers (which according to Flickr, they only store for a couple weeks until you enable your stats, then they remember them forever) and I found this blog about “The Emerging Free Music Model“. So I checked it out and BAM my “Bundle Up” photo of my ipod in a sock was prominently displayed!

The photo is marked as “All rights reserved” and no credit was given to me specifically. The author did however link back to the original flickr page. He also has multiple ads on his page which he theoretically is earning revenue from. Should I be flattered? Pissed? I can’t say I’ve never used someone else’s photos on this site (which also has ads [though I have still yet to earn the $100 minimum that Google requires before sending a check])…so maybe things are just balancing out. I do wish he would have at least asked me first. I guess this is bound to happen posting any pictures online.

The thing I’m most annoyed with is he resized the image by just changing the dimensions via HTML… this of course results in nasty jagged edges making the photo look all fugly. Should I ask him to credit me by name? Should I ask him to not resize the image via the browser? Should I ask him to remove it completely?

Truth be told I am kinda flattered since I’m pretty green as a photographer and am glad people are enjoying my images. At the same time I feel I’m owed a little something something.

Update:  I emailed the site owner and asked him to resize the image to it’s original dimensions or take it down…he emailed me back within the hour and opted to take it down.

Here is my first entry to JPG Magazine. It’s a paper magazine sold in normal stores that is entirely made up of photos submitted and voted upon through their web site. Basically they have three themes for each issue. I submitted to the “Noir” theme. You can go vote (probably have to sign up for an account) for me, or against me

I get $100 and a free subscription if my photo gets selected which would be neato.

This problem has been bugging the crap out of me since I started using GoDaddy hosting. All of my old mod_rewrite stuff stopped working and I had to find roundabout ways to get mod_rewrite working. I talked to GoDaddy support which is usually great but they told me they couldn’t help. I scoured the tubes o’ internet and found lots of people with the same problem, but not too many answers, and none that worked for me…until today! The problem was that Apache MultiViews were enabled by default in GoDaddy hosting (at least in their shared hosting 2.0 environment).

Apache.org docs say the following about multiviews:

The effect of MultiViews is as follows: if the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo, if /some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and /some/dir/foo< does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client’s requirements.

After I finally figured this part out, it was easy to disable. Just add the following to your .htaccess file in any directory which you do not want to use multiviews:

Options -MultiViews

So… this post is really just for random people scouring the internet tubes, probably not most of my normal readers…but it’s better than nothing.