Thursday November 17, 2005

Bandwidth on the Run

I love this story. It seems B2Day, Business 2.0’s blog, decided to use a picture from FTrain—the website of Gary Benchley, Rock Star author Paul Ford—without moving it to their own damned server. So, since yesterday, Ford has been putting a lot of fun images in its place, including a big ad for his book. 24 hours later, the Business2Bloggers don’t seem to have noticed, even though their own comments thread is filling up with talk about it. That’s so amazing, it almost seems like a setup—or maybe the house blogger called in sick today. Hope Ford gets some book sales out of it, in any case.

And to the folks at Business 2.0: Do me. Do me next!

[Via Heaneyland!]

UPDATE: They just figured it out (11:11 p.m. EST). The comments are gone, an apology has appeared, but Ford’s ad remains (for now).

UPDATE: All gone. (3:51 a.m. EST). Like it never happened.

Posted by jim at 10:51 PM ||