While watching the POE demo app tail my web log files I noticed a referrer to a [certain http://www.niceness.org/new_surf/archives/001116.html] surfer's web site popped up a lot. What was happening is that there is an <img> tag posted on the page pointing to one of my buoy data gifs.
This image changes every hour so it makes a kind of sense to do it this way. The latest version will always display on his page. As an added bonus for the linker, it's my server that provides the resource.
Now Ethan is a really nice guy and I think it's great that the images are getting used by more local surfers. I did decide that I wanted to tag the images in some way though.
I added this text to all my buoy data images.:
It's pretty jaggy edged but that's because it has to be a GIF image. Anti aliasing would look strange too (especially on a non-white background like Ethan's site ;-).
I want to redo the images again to make this a little less prominent. I'm thinking of adding some extra space at the bottom for a line of text including a tag of some sort.
Coming soon...
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