Frequently Asked Questions

See the blog post on “What is Laughing Squid?” for a full breakdown.

Please note the correct name is “Laughing Squid”. There is no preceding “The” or “.com” at the end. Also, it is two words, not one.

Everything related to our web hosting operations can be found at Laughing Squid Web Hosting. If you have any sales or support questions, please enter a support ticket through our Help Desk.

Our contact info is listed on, well you guessed it, our contact page.

The front of Laughing Squid is our main blog.

Laughing Squid Links is our link blog for all of the stuff that doesn’t make the main blog.

Please see The Squid List FAQ.

Here’s the main RSS feed for Laughing Squid

Here’s the RSS feed for Laughing Squid comments

Here’s the RSS feed for Laughing Squid Links

We have also setup an option to send Laughing Squid RSS updates via email using FeedBurner:

Here’s the RSS feed for The Squid List

We have also setup a subscription service where you can receive RSS updates via email.

For more information on The Squid List, please see The Squid List FAQ

There are three Twitter account for Laughing Squid, the main Laughing Squid account, our Laughing Squid Links link blog and The Squid List.

Our contact page has a list of some of the social networks that we use.

You can purchase our t-shirts through Noonaco.

Please see our Laughing Squid sticker page for more info.

1) You can send us suggestions if you want to, but keep in mind that we only post a small amount of what is sent to us. In fact, at any given time we usually have a huge backlog of our own stuff that we haven’t had a chance to post.

2) Please note due to the massive volume of email we receive daily, we just don’t have the resources to reply to your email to let you know if we will post your suggestion or not, nothing personal.

3) Asking us to write about something is really not the best approach, it is better to just send the info.

4) Sometimes if we do not post something to our main blog, we might end up posting it on our link blog, which also ends up on FriendFeed.

5) Any squid-related tips should be sent to squid.us.

No, we do not do reviews on the blog or accept items to be reviewed. Please do not send us products or services to review. This includes books, music, electronic devices, cameras and so on.

Regarding web services, you can send us an invite to your service, but we do not do any kind of reviews.

No we do not do link exchanges or accept paid links.

It may be possible for you to use our photos in a publication, but when contacting us, please make sure you include the answers to the following questions:

1) What is the url for the photo(s) you are interested in (please provide a link, not an attached photo, this will make it easier to locate the photo).

2) What is the name and url of the publication?

3) How much you are paying for each photo?

4) Will you be providing attribution and if so how?

5) Will the photos be used in print, online or both?

If we come to an agreement regarding the use of the photos, you will need to provide a written agreement confirming the amount paid for each photo, the attribution that will be used (both in print and online) and confirmation that the photo(s) will only be used for that single use only. Photos will not be provided until we have received the agreement from you.

Also when contacting us, please avoid using terms like ASAP. It was your decision to wait until the last minute to contact us.

Please list the photo credit as "Scott Beale / Laughing Squid" and link the credit to laughingsquid.com.

Yes, the following comments will not be approved:

- Irrelevant or abusive comments. Let’s keep things civil and on topic.

- Spam and any other overly self-promotional comments. You know the difference.

Basically what we are saying, if your comment does not add to the conversation, it will not be approved. Oh and we don’t feed trolls.

If you want to point out a typo correction, please email us instead. Typo correction comments will not be approved (they are pretty much useless once the typo has been corrected).

You can purchase ads on Laughing Squid through Federated Media Publishing and AdSense.

You can purchase ads on The Squid List through AdSense.

Yes, here are some traffic and blog metrics for Laughing Squid from various live reporting sources.

It’s pretty simple really. If we come across something that we haven’t seen before and think it’s interesting enough to post on the blog, chances are that there are other people who missed it the first time around as well and would like to see it. Our suggestion, just skip to the next post.

Check out the The Tentacle Sessions website for the archives of Laughing Squid’s artist series which ran from February 21, 1999 through December 15, 2002.

Yes, here’s a list of Laughing Squid Vendors.

The Co-Conspirators list is really just like it sounds, a list of our friends and organization that we have collaborated with in the past. It’s not an open list that takes outside submissions and it’s not a list of everyone that we know who has a blog or website (that would be an impossibly long list).

If you are a Laughing Squid Web Hosting customer, then maybe you are looking for our customer list.

Glad you asked, we have a special blog just for squid info: squid.us