This is set up by Erica Friedman (@Yuricon on Twitter), posing a hypothetical at the Yuricon blog ... would they pay upfront:
$50 for a 5 issue subscription to a 200 page per issue manga (graphic novel)
$60 for 4 issues of a 300 page per issue manga
$75 for 3 issues of a 450 page per issue manga
For several days, until I put ChrisCook and Erica's "5 things Niche Companies Do Right", I was in this "modern meaning of the term 'subscription'" mode of thinking. But then I made a wisecrack, and it got me thinking of an older meaning of the term "subscription", and what might be termed a "Hero Model of Publishing".
Milder reactions have emanated from the White House, ranging from being "puzzled", intimating that McClellan didn't write this book because it "doesn't sound like him, it sounds like a left-wing blogger", that this is an "out of body experience", that McClellan was "disgruntled", that "something dramatically has changed", that the editor "tweaked some things in the past few months" and "wrote a lot of it"...
...and on, and on, and on.
But the process of writing is sitting in front of a blank screen, staring into one's soul.
While I'm busy setting up the farm I was hoping that one or two volunteers could step up to do some basic things for Docudharma. They are very easy to do. I'll be gone for about a month with only quick visits to see how traffic is doing and catch up with events.
1. Ping Technorati when a new story appears on the front page. Just go to http://technorati.com/ping/ and enter http://docudharma.com exactly as you see it here w/ no www or trailing slash. That will let technorati know we've updated the site and they'll share our headlines with the other bloggers. Just do it when you can as long as we are getting a few fresh pings a day we'll be fine.
We are registered with most active blog indexes so if you see another place to ping us go ahead and do it.
Sphere and Blogburst work automatically so there is no need to ping them.
2. Search for smaller search engines and political directories and add Docudharma to the list. Just check to make sure we aren't already listed and only apply to places that are free and do not require a reciprocal link or link back to their site. We won't gain much direct traffic from these links but they help our rankings on Google and other search engines.
3. The following tags have their own feeds, consider using them in your essays:
impeachment, how to, politics, women's issues, healthcare, sports, activism, dharmazine, Iraq, solar, GLBT, science, immigration and literature. I'll be doing more development with the feeds when I get back.
That's about it, otherwise keep doing what you are doing and thanks for helping.
It is very important that we follow good form when discussing articles and interviews. This means:
Please do not reprint entire articles
Please do link to the original source
Please add your own thoughts along with the quoted article or interview
Simply cutting and pasting an article from somewhere else without doing any work whatsoever is not what blogging/writing is about, it is what Cutting and Pasting is about. If all you want to do is point out an important story to the group please find the latest open thread and add a link. More people will find it there rather than on an individual post anyway.
Now that we are being treated as a real publishing force, we must adhere to basic rules.
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