{"id":613,"date":"2006-01-03T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T15:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2006-01-03T15:29:14","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T15:29:14","slug":"wilson-dont-look-at-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/03\/wilson-dont-look-at-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson, don’t look at this."},"content":{"rendered":"

Some very very nice photography here<\/a>. My favourite is the one in the Whale portfolio, number 10, the whale with his mouth open*. Amazing. That’s one long tongue. Some excellent glacier shots too. Nice work, except for the flash website….<\/p>\n

* Careful, there’s a geek rant here. I would link to the pciture I like, but for some unknown reason photographers are obsessed with using flash instead of oh, anything else you can link to, on their websites. Ahem<\/a>. Why? What purpose does it serve? Are they all indoctrinated to believe this is better somehow? If I wanted to steal the picture from the site I still could, and it shouldn’t be a high-res one that’s worth protecting anyway, if you really want to keep it safe, don’t put it on the net in the first place. Watermark them, and that’s it. For crying out loud. There’s a whole bunch of reasons this is dumb. Here’s the best one: I don’t link to the picture because I can’t, therefore I can only link to the main site and tell you how to get there. The site’s Google rank doesn’t benefit as much as it could because two links would surely be better than one when this blog gets indexed. He gets fewer page loads, and therefore gets less business. This kind of thing doesn’t matter much when it’s just me, but what about a more popular site trying to point out a few of the better shots? It could mean a whole crap load of traffic, and greatly increased Google rank. Then there’s the photographer wondering which pictures people like most, so he could post some more like those, or take more shots in the same vein. It’s not impossible that he could track it with Flash I suppose, but it’s so much harder, why not just use his web logs to see which ones get the most hits? I’m spent…<\/p>\n

I warned you, Wilson. I’m sounding like a broken record on this, I guess.<\/p>\n

From Metafilter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some very very nice photography here. My favourite is the one in the Whale portfolio, number 10, the whale with his mouth open*. Amazing. That’s one long tongue. Some excellent glacier shots too. Nice work, except for the flash website…. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-9T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}