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Let’s Talk About Hot Linking Shall we?

“Hot Linking”, “Direct Linking” or “Leeching” is the topic today. What it is and how it applies to common courtesy within the Blogosphere.
First a definition:
“Hotlinking” (also called “hot linking”, “direct linking” “leeching”, and “bandwidth theft”) is a term referring to when a web page of one website owner is direct linking to the images or [...]

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Blogging Code of Conduct. Recommend It–Don’t Force It.

Well now, Isn’t this just one of my favorite things here. While one part of the blogosphere is pushing link love and giving something back to those who make comments on your blogs, another faction consisting of Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame and Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media is calling for an accounting of these [...]

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