August 18, 2003

New approaches in advertising  

Jeff Cooper complains that he's getting comment-spam, and a quick search at Daypop suggests he's not alone. Why would advertisers think spamming blogs would gain them customers? Sounds like culture shock to me.

On a related note, I've been wondering about the etiquette of linking to photos. Is it acceptable to load a picture directly from another site without express permission? This would hardly matter for the amount of traffic I have, but hypothetically couldn't it become a serious drag on bandwidth for that other site? Just curious what people think about this.

Comments
bigoldgeek  {August 19, 2003}

I try to keep my hot linked photos to sites like CNN that can handle the traffic. Of course, my 14-20 hits/day have slashdotted a few sites...

apostropher  {August 19, 2003}

I download and store the photos directly on my site, which doesn't eat their bandwidth, but almost certainly violates their copyright. I do, however, provide a link to the site from which the picture was taken. But I rationalize it away by my profit margin on apostropher being zero dollars and zero cents total revenue minus the hosting costs.

I figure if they complain, I'll take a photo down, but I'm likely too small a fry to be worth the complaint. Your mileage may vary. Shrug.

paul  {August 19, 2003}

Hmmm.... it's probably not entirely kosher, but it's hard for me to imagine feeling bad about posting other people's pictures on my site, with my bandwidth, especially if they're credited. I was more concerned with this business of using the source site's bandwidth, which potentially incurs real costs for them.

ogged  {August 20, 2003}

Hotlinking is a pretty big no-no. Apostropher's solution is probably best.
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