So because of the Facebook debacle and after reading a blog post comparing* various Terms of Service (TOS), I checked out the TOSes of the social media websites I belong to. I left the Indigo Chapters community to last — in fact I didn’t even think about it, being Canadian and aimed at serving authors,…
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Copyright, Moral Rights, and The Facebook Face-Off
As a writer, you gotta navigate the copyright minefield when contracting with journals, newspapers, magazines, publishers. Before my injury, when I was trying to get my work published, I discovered some magazines were better than others in working with writers and not trying to take their copyright for free. And one magazine was really bad…
Connecting to Community
I spread my presence across the bookstore Net and then realised I was overextended. I signed up for Amazon Connect awhile ago. It’s similar to chapters.indigo.ca Community; in fact the Community is probably a take-off of Connect. I tried to stay current with both, but in the end, especially after all of Amazon’s shenanigans, I’ve…
I Have A Facebook Page!
It’s taken me awhile, but I figured it’s about time I created a Facebook Page, a feature Facebook created for artists, including writers about a year ago. I’ve finally realised that Pages are a good idea. They’re compact, easy to read, and good to look at. A FB Page allows me to have the latest…
Featurific (Temporarily) Off; How To Use it on a Static Front Page
I really like the Featurific for WordPress plugin, so much so that I spent hours on my own and working with its designer to get it to run on a static front page (see instructions below), and now Rich Christiansen refers to my solution in his FAQ section. When I installed the new theme a…
On to Sidebars and Widgets
I’ll probably work on the header again now that I’m starting to become more familiar with this theme and how it works, but I’m going to let it sit for awhile and see how I like it, what I want to change. In the meantime, I had to fix those sidebars. And holy cow, are…
New Header Image
Well, fiddled with my header image in Corel, keeping in mind that I was constrained in how many pixels wide and high it could be, and finally got something that worked with the new look. I would have preferred it to have been wider, but the way this theme is set up, the image takes…
Upgrading Blues
Right in the middle of the Christmas season, all my online software providers decide to upgrade their programs, and just to make the point that I gotta upgrade NOW, the Russians storm my comments section with SPAM. Don’t they have nothing better to do with themselves? Obviously, they don’t have issues of buying cards, making…
Sponsoring Irene Watson’s Virtual Book Launch and Fundraiser
Recently, I’ve been seeing more and more writers holding virtual events. Unlike traditional book launches or book signings, which only people local to the venue can attend, these events are held online where anyone, anywhere in the world can attend. It’s cheaper and, I assume, easier for the writer too, as there are no travel…