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New Ad in Town

I’m afraid this post is going to be about money. I say “afraid,” because I don’t think my money concerns and ambitions are as important to you as they are to me.

But this is also about you and what a wonderful person you are, which might pique your interest.

(And I have advertisers covered also–please read on to “What’s in it for you advertisers?” for why I think this is a good site for you, even if it’s about free stuff. And I’m not excluding you from the wonderful person category.)

I noticed via TechCrunch that Performancing has a new ad network, so on a lark I decided to sign up. The “house ad” is currently running in the left sidebar. They have an auto-pricing mechanism and I’ve just had …

Comment Preview Feature

I added a comment preview feature, courtesy of Il Filosofo. Seems to be working great and wasn’t much trouble to get working. The only problem I’m seeing is that if I click on the W3C XHTML 1.0 link to validate the page, it complains that the page is not valid because no doctype is found. But there is a doctype, and if I view source and then manually paste that in to the W3C form, it validates fine. The only thing different from other pages I validate on here is that the url ends in .php. Does the validator make some kind of assumption when it sees that? My OCD will compel me to figure this out, but my ADD may allow me …

Free Culture: An ‘Inside the Slush Pile’ Exclusive!

In the first installment of this series, I promised to lend my keen insight to a comparison between the old print publishing business and the new online publishing business. What qualifies me to perform this service? Well, I have limited experience in the traditional publishing industry, having garnered forty-two rejections on five short stories over a two year period, and I have a blog that’s all of two months old.

Who could possibly be more qualified to pontificate on the subject?

(Do rejected stories count towards publishing industry experience? Or is that just editorial experience? In either case, don’t worry, you will receive the benefit of my wisdom.)

Also as promised last time, and …