Thursday, June 18th, 2009
I’m away for a few days and hurriedly packing, so excuse this repost from January.
If you remember, it was then that Harriet Harman was proposing to exempt MPs’ expenses from the freedom of information act.
Next week, I intend to start on a new video but not to ignore creating the odd still image while producing it.
A bunch of links for those still visiting and enduring the erratic posting of late:
David Miliband on torture
Tony Blair can’t be with us today.
video
Ewan McGregor’s Davidoff Adventure Commercial meets Trainspotting
Make Government Poverty History
MPs’ Expenses – A Musical Guide
MPs’ Expenses – Oliver! – The Sequel!
and finally,
Financial Gain Spotting / Plotting which is still on the front page of the blog but is here for those on feeds or who are linking to this post only.
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Well, The Daily Mail is getting round my IP address ban and have nicked my Hazel Blears image.
Blears falls prey to ‘Google Bomb’ Attack Of The 50-inch Woman – Here
A screen capture of the current front page of The Daily Mail’s website :
This is despite my new notice (on the left) about image use (it even mentions The Daily Mail) and despite Associated Newspapers acknowledging having been warned about image use before.
(Associated agreed to circulate my details around relevant departments so none of their titles would use my pictures.)
From my site’s logs it seems that Associated Newspapers made many attempts to access the relevant post on my site (and image server) which were all denied but the author could have been working from home or phoned a friend.
Towards the end of the article, the truth comes out about the Google bombing accusation :
“Google yesterday denied the politicians had been subjected to Google Bombing, saying the picture’s ranking was due to several factors including popularity.”
Associated Newspapers stole my Kate Moss/Pete Doherty image earlier this year (here) when the article was actually about Russell Young’s prints of my image.
I’ve deleted all copies/posts of that one from my servers for other reasons, including the fact that I was getting way too many visits because of the popularity of the picture in Google images.
Update :
It seems The Daily Telegraph has run a very similar story here and, of course, stolen the image.
Both images have been cropped to delete my tag on the original image.
