Posted in General, Programming/Software, Writing/Publishing on Mar 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve recently switched from Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Mozilla Thunderbird. This completes the chageover to using open source software exclusively for my magazine publishing workflow.
For anyone who has used Microsoft Outlook I don’t have to go into great detail about all of the problems and annoyances, but there are two that pushed me […]
Posted in General, Writing/Publishing on Mar 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve just finished reading about 40 stories submitted to All Possible Worlds. I don’t know the exact total, but I’ve now read over one million words worth of submissions. Some people don’t read that much in a lifetime and I’ve done it in about a six month time period.
Yesterday I caught myself saying that I […]
Posted in Business Ideas, Financial, General, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been working on making some deals with pulp magazine publishers to get some stock into PulpSource. So far everyone I’ve chatted with (via email) has been pretty open to the idea of opening an online small press magazine (and eventually book) shop. I’ve even had more than one offer of ad exchanges […]
Posted in General, Marketing on Mar 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Comparing my All Possible Worlds ad statistics for Yahoo search marketing and Google adwords, here’s what I get:
Google:
~82k impressions, 22 clicks, cost < $2.
Yahoo:
~23.5k impression, 28 clicks, cost < $3.
So, for the same ads and the same terms, Yahoo seems to be delivering more effective results. Both clickthrough rates are still abysmal, and I […]
Posted in Business Ideas, Financial, General, Music, Writing/Publishing on Mar 24th, 2007 No Comments »
In the past couple days I’ve read a huge amount of stories for All Possible Worlds. In fact, catch-up might not run too much beyond this submission period, which ends 4/15.
Speaking of 4/15, I’m going to have to do taxes pretty soon. It’ll be really ugly since my garage burnt down over the […]
Posted in General, Marketing, Music on Mar 21st, 2007 No Comments »
After much research I’ve signed up for an autoresponder service called Aweber. An autoresponder service is like a mailing list management service, but it lets you create automated sequences of emails and targeted email campaigns. There are a lot of bells and whistles in Aweber, including the ability to parse Paypal emails in order to […]
Posted in General, Music, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Today was a solid day of sampling. I recorded multisamples of two Roland synthesizers - the JD-990 and the D-550, using up about 8 gigabytes of pre-edit drive space. Since Freewavesamples.com already seems to be getting a good amount of traffic, it makes sense to pursue building it up.
While the sample trigger/recorder was running I […]
Posted in General, Programming/Software, Web Design on Mar 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve finished setting up the basic design of freewavesamples.com today. It’s a site where people can download free .wav samples to use in music projects or in anything else where they would want or need sounds. I’ve been building the site for about a week and a half and was surprised today to find that […]
Posted in General, Music, Programming/Software, Writing/Publishing on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I read a bunch of the submissions to APW today. If I read the insane amount that I read today I *might* actually be able to keep up with them. I also finished Robert Jordan’s The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book today. I think I’m going to […]
Posted in General, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
It looks like APW is now live on the Genre Mall. I’ve created a couple of banners, nothing special, but at least I have them now.
I spent much of the day figuring out some things about Drupal. I know a heckuva lot more about the ecommerce module, custom views, and I can do some neat […]