HOTLINK an internet image monthly magazine HOME HOTLINK: HOTLINK is an internet "magazine" featuring twenty interesting and eclectic "hotlinks" each month. Subscriptions: Add your email address below to get reminders about new issues, and perhaps rare other news. "Hotlinking": On the internet, images are not included directly as part of web pages. Rather, they are stored externally, and referred to by an address. These addresses, publicly available, can be included in web pages without copying the images themselves. These addresses can be included, as they are in HOTLINK, in such a way that they instruct the viewer's computer to go fetch and display the images they refer to. HOTLINK likes to imagine it like a machine that tells your car the addresses of all sorts of cool buildings, but then like if you're car could drive you all those places automatically, but also like we're living in some sort of "Digital Age" where all that can happen very quickly. This image-fetching is what's happening, actually, every time an image from the internet is viewed. But to include the address of an image one does not own on a page is called "inline linking," or "hotlinking," and some find the practice objectionable. HOTLINK disagrees. "Hotlinks" in HOTLINK: Each month, we find twenty interesting and eclectic "hotlinks" to include. We do not believe one needs to ask for permission to include an address. HOTLINK chooses the addresses we include based on the images they refer to, but, ultimately, HOTLINK is choosing the addresses, not the images. After HOTLINK settles on an address, the image it refers to could be deleted or changed, perhaps repeatedly. HOTLINK's inclusion of the address, however, with few possible exceptions, will not change. Removal Policy HOTLINK respects artists who make things we admire. If an artist doesn't want their work "hotlinked," or would like to be credited/linked differently, a simple request will be quickly honored. "Submissions": HOTLINK aims to find the eclectic and the obscure, and thus most of the material is found by the "editorial board" scouring sites like this. But HOTLINK will take submissions of whatever you've found or created too. While most interested in images, HOTLINK will consider anything; HOTLINK has a soft spot for postmodern fiction and thinks there's probably more cool art people could be doing that takes particular advantage of the online medium. "Editorial Board": Dan Copulsky is a creative writing and literary studies major with a website and some silly ideas. He'd love for some people to be helping him out with this. There's lots of work to be done finding and selecting images and doing organizational sorts of things, like telling people this exists. Contact: dan@copulsky.com