IMPORTANT UPDATE - April 2004:
As a result of attending the Memorial for Spalding in NYC on
April 13th, 2004, I have added information on the Memorial Scholarship Fund
that has been created.
I am copying the text from the back cover of the program
from Remembering Spalding
which has the details for contributing to the
Scholarship fund.
Please also remember to read my donation section
which
follows the scholarship info:
In honor of Spalding Gray,
a
Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established at the Ross School
in East
Hampton, New York.
This scholarship will support middle school and high
school students
with a talent in writing who are in financial need.
To
make a donation, please mail a check payable to 'The Ross School' to:
Spalding Gray Memorial Scholarship
Fund
c/o The Ross School
18 Goodfriend Drive
East Hampton, NY 11937
For more information, please
call 631- 907 - 5118
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i don't like this part too much
but this site has been put together by myself
(with the knowledge of Spalding
and approval of Spalding and Kathie)...
as I was working on the
site when my spouse said...
"It's on CNN!". Was the site up already...
I
think so. Shock is a denial sort of thing, isn't it?
1) Domain registration and hosting:
spaldinggray.com was taken awhile
back
by an 'internet prospector' who has kept it as a blatant commercial
site for a period of time
but of course that 'eventually' a site for Spalding
was to be put up...
and of course, it just happens to be for sale for a
price
- well the price we are offering is his real costs for the year -
about twenty bucks
- so i assume he will say no because he doesn't realize
that with recent court decisions,
the days of internet prospectors are
over...
and then i'll take him to the International Internet Fraud folks
and others
and eventualy get the domain back to it's intellectual owner
- that being Spalding!
UPDATE FEB. 10,2004
- our campaign
is about to move into high gear
to retrieve the intellectual property of
Spalding Gray's
- spaldinggray.com after negotiations broke down
- I am
adding a hyperlink called 'boycott'
- stay tuned - we will win Spud no
matter where you are...
UPDATE FEB. 26 - a benefactor has helped us purchase
the domain www.spaldinggray.com
- it is not up yet but it will
be the site
- Spalding recovers his property!!!
UPDATE April 9, 2004 - www.spaldinggray.com
LIVES
and www.spaldinggray.net is taken
by the mexican punkish/electronic music group
- hey and that's cool
- good music (translation from Spanish is needed please...)
The band broke up,
and the site was taken over,
without our knowledge, by a prospector,
and contains only commercial links,
not one mention of Spalding.
Domain held by:
Service, Whois whoisservice@BelizeDomainWHOISService.com
Suite 5, Garden City Plaza
Mountainview Boulevard
Belize, WI 00000
US
3472822181
From above it appears that email address is:
whoisservice@BelizeDomainWHOISService.com
suggestion: email them, phone them,
tell them that spaldinggray.net
is the intellectual property of Estate of Spalding Gray,
tell them to immediately transfer the rights to the domain!!!
so that is why i have used the
domain i did...
i did it the cheapest way in
the long run
- www.doteasy.com has a special on domains and hosting together
- i may have been able to save $2 a year by going separate,
but for convenience,
i went this way - also, I check out their on line support - A+++
COST: ($25 one year
domain and hosting - I am switching totally to doteasy
due to very good price and excellent support!
And I've checked EVERY cheap
one!
2) search engine placement
this is important - I am currently
looking at programs that do this.
I have yet to determine the cost
- a
program like web position gold is far too expensive.
As of 2007, I no longer have
access to a search engine placement program
as we can't afford it.
But,
check it out, folks.
We're #1 on google and most everywhere else...
spaldinggray.com
has gone from a weird coloured site without a name
to a beautiful design
courtesy of the fantastic artistic talents of AF!!!
Note that one of the best ways
to get on engines like google
are to increase your links from other sites.
So I will gladly link exchange links with other sites.
COSTS(2007): $100/year
- extra charge due to number of visitors...
time flys all the way to LOSTT(leftover
stories to tell) to SLTT (stories left to tell):
(and yes SPUD, we're still here...)
now i am asking that people
use our fundraising/affiliates page
to cover these costs.
as soon as the
costs are covered for the year,
i will note that here
and yes goes to the
above mentioned scholarship fund.
the paypal link remains as you
can always help
- if you want it to just go to the scholarship fund, just
let me know.
jb, aka spuddysan except while
in NYC, then it's ratz garcia, at your service...
