Llama's journey over the internet

Did you notice the little balloons on the corner of some websites over this last week? I noticed it on notcot and the journey for Lovely Llama began. Cat, camel, bird, or dolphin balloons were picked, named, encouraged and set off to fend for themselves - I chose the camel and named it "lovely llama".




The First Internet Balloon race has just been completed.The race lasted for 7 days as many balloons travelled enthusiastically over participating websites. This blog was a destination stop for many passing balloons, hopefully boosters, tokens and rainbow teleporters were found on my site. Some websites acknowledged your presence with a post or a graphic welcoming the ballooners - made you really feel like you were apart of something. I enjoyed the experience even though I was not legible for any prizes (uk only) as lovely llama and I were teleported to many interesting web spaces that I may have never visited, passing by many other balloons, gently boosting only the camels - you know a sense of sisterhood. Each web page visited equals 1 internet mile, llama managed to travel 2255 miles! - highest rank at 383rd early in the race, dropped to 1700, climbed 1200 places to finally finish at 637th. (Fastest lap time?). The random nature of the browsing from space to space, highlighted the Internet's diverse nature all in one go - and am sure it generated a lot of foot traffic all around. Pity we have to pay for bandwidth otherwise Lovely Llama would have come first. LOL

Am hoping Orange will release lovely llama into the wild - free again.

Here are some websites on route to the finish.

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