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alloy-digest         Friday, February 20 2004         Volume 09 : Number 023



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: Alloy: [OT] Doing it for the Spongmonkeys!  ["Andrea Allen" <triliana@]
  Re: Alloy: [OT] Doing it for the Spongmonkeys!  ["Keith Stansell" <Keith@S]
  Re: Alloy: [OT] Doing it for the Spongmonkeys!  [Paul Baily <paul@paulbail]
  Re: Alloy: George and Tom get funky  ["Mary A. Brown" <Mary_A_Brown@compus]

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:47:26 -0600
From: "Andrea Allen" <triliana@trilia.net>
Subject: Re: Alloy: [OT] Doing it for the Spongmonkeys!

Uh, I wouldn't blame you if you did.  Remote linking to someone else's
images is effectively stealing their bandwidth.  A lot of sites
disallow it entirely, and a few industrious ones make any
remotely-linked image automatically redirect to an image saying "we
hate remote linkers" or something else altogether ...

a.

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:09:26 +1000

> Now, what to do with this power... [starts thinking of graphics to
> slip  in place of
>  <http://www.paulbaily.com/blog/C580356876/E970165210/Media/
> spongmonkey.jpg>]
> 
> Hmm? No, of /course/ I wouldn't... <snigger>

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:06:43 -0700
From: "Keith Stansell" <Keith@Stansell.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: [OT] Doing it for the Spongmonkeys!

I have "We love the subs" repeating in my head - thanks Paul.  Sometimes it
is "We love the blogs"

I think that advertising works on some odd subconscious level - I've been
going to Quizno's a lot lately - true.  I think it is my addiction to their
M&M cookies though.

Perhaps this weekend I'll make a trip downtown to the very first Quizno's -
sort of my sub Mecca pilgrimage.

- -Keith


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Baily" <paul@paulbaily.com>
To: <alloy@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:09 PM
Subject: Alloy: [OT] Doing it for the Spongmonkeys!


>
> Hi all,
>
> Got a funny story for you.
>
> So let's say that you've had a fledgling blog going for a year or so
> that gets read by one or two people (nono, /literally/ one or two
> people, I'd get stage-fright if there were more!), and back when Robin
> told us about Rather Good's We Like The Moon, you do a blog entry about
> it, and put a screen grab of it in there for good measure. I mean try
> describing a Spongmonkey by text alone...
>
> <http://www.rather-good.com/moon_song/>
>
> Let's also say that said blog gets regularly spidered (as most sites
> do) by the likes of Google etc. and by a strange twist of fate, the
> aforementioned screen-grab ends up being the first hit you get when you
> do a Google Image search for "spongmonkey". Let's also say that due to
> the sellout hussies (not that there's anything wrong with that) -er-
> selling out in a Quiznos commercial, the animals get wider exposure.
>
> <http://www.quiznos.com/creature_video_1.asp>
>
> Now, imagine what happens to said blog site's access logs when a few
> people start linking to said image as their avatar in several forums.
> Very active forums. Populated by very bored people. Accessed every time
> they post, and every time anyone reads that thread, once for each
> post...
>
> Haven't seen that much activity in the logs since I was MacSurfered. :-)
>
> P.
> Now, what to do with this power... [starts thinking of graphics to slip
> in place of
> <http://www.paulbaily.com/blog/C580356876/E970165210/Media/
> spongmonkey.jpg>]
>
> Hmm? No, of /course/ I wouldn't... <snigger>

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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:20:17 +1000
From: Paul Baily <paul@paulbaily.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: [OT] Doing it for the Spongmonkeys!

On 20/02/2004, at 1:47 am, Andrea Allen wrote:

> Uh, I wouldn't blame you if you did.  Remote linking to someone else's
> images is effectively stealing their bandwidth.

Yeh, I was in two minds about it since it's always good to Spread The 
Spongmonkey Word (the world needs more Spongmonkiness!) and it wasn't 
threatening to go over my bandwidth limit, but thought it was getting a 
bit beyond a joke: upwards of 40MB transferred a day just from that one 
image and increasing each day as more people on different forums 
started using it.

One .htaccess file later and it's "Dude, where's my avatar?" :-)

Then again, maybe I should have done something useful with it like a 
subliminal "Buy Lots Of Thomas Dolby Music" message in an animated 
gif...

P.

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:43:38 -0500
From: "Mary A. Brown" <Mary_A_Brown@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: George and Tom get funky

Hi Chris,
If you're interested in CDs he's played on but not produced, God knows why
but TMDR is on Belinda Carlisle's Heaven on Earth.  My favorite work,
though, is arguably Joan Armatrading's Walk Under Ladders which also stars
someone I'm proud to call a friend, Mr. Tony Levin.

I'm so thrilled that I just gotta tell someone - I won a trip for 2 to Las
Vegas to see Liz Phair next weekend!  Woo hoo!  If you think people don't
actually win radio contests, think again.  It has to be a good station
since it has the same name as my best friend, Alice.

Back to lurkdom,
Mary

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