Digg linkage

Quite a spike in traffic today due to my Secure Firefox/IM HOWTO getting linked on the Digg front page:

MRTG Traffic

Last time I checked it had over a thousand diggs and counting. Cool.

3 Responses to “Digg linkage”

  1. Joe Says:

    What in the world is up with the Monkey?

  2. John Says:

    Heh. Good question, Joe.

    It has come to my attention that certain individuals have copied some of my content and hotlinked the associated images. Not cool.

    So I’ve been playing around with my mod_rewrite rules to prevent hotlinking, substituting the hotlinked image with the monkey. If you are seeing the monkey on this site (thinkhole.org) it means that I messed up. :)

    If it continues to be an issue, please let me know.

  3. import this. » Blog Archive » Digg effect Says:

    [...] It wasn’t as significant as last time, but it looks like there was a spike in traffic the other day due to some linkage from Digg related to my SSH HOWTO: [...]

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