A web agency weblog

Text Link Ads (aff), my favorite broker for selling and buying text links, just launched Feedvertising, a service for including text advertisements in your feeds.

It’s working just with Wordpress based sites for now but Patrick Gavin and company have already promised many other platforms being supported soon. There are many guys asking for Drupal already, I’m one of those.

I guess Feedvertising will work better for those offering full articles instead of teasers in their feeds, one more reason for offering full content to your subscribers.

I’ll let you know how it works for me when I have them working for a while in my sites.

Ready to launch, a new Drupal based site, mumobo is here. It’s a place for writing about the books I read, the movies I watch and the music I listen.

It’s a project I’m quite fond of, includes my most complete PHPTemplate to date and my first fixed 1024 x 768 layout.

Completely developed with open source tools: Freemind for IA, Inkscape and Gimp for design, vi for editing and, of course, Drupal for content management.

It’s all Drupal 4.7. I started working with HEAD first (pre 4.8) but then decided to go with the stable 4.7, many modules and some details were not working yet a couple of months ago.

I wanted to create an easy to use and different, kinda retro, design this time, but my focus is on content, writing with a very personal voice and sharing my comments about the stuff that fills most of my days.

Writing the articles took almost as many hours as design and programming, but I think it was worth the effort. Now I plan to add fresh content on a weekly basis.

What do you think?

Take a look at mumobo and publish some comments, would you?

You may already know I am writing a book, actually an ebook, it is an ebook about teleworking, or telecommuting if you prefer that term.

I will be launching a web site dedicated to the book, and all things teleworking. I already registered the domain name, and I think is a good one. My writing is progressing and I already started thinking about the best way to distribute the ebook online.

To begin with, I will use some pay per click campaigns to attract targetted traffic to the new web site, then I plan on maybe making the book available in other sites. That is why I am writing this post, I would like to know your suggestions and experiences with ebook distribution services.

I have reviewed Lulu, I like their community and the possibility of print on demand publishing and ebook distribution. They allow me to distribute a book through well known stores such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble, although it seems this is only for the printed editions.

I have also found ebook stores like eBookMall and Mobipocket that offer distribution of ebooks but I am still searching for testimonials of their customers to see how well they work.

Most of the sites I have reviewed have a non exclusive agreement, which is good, but royalties are sometimes too low and some charge additional fees.

What are your ideas on ebook publishing and distribution? Should I just sell it on my site? Will it be worth selling my ebook through other sites?

Technorati tags: ebooks | telework | telecommuting | publishing

Update: My new book is already available for purchase. Get your copy of Telework People now.

I’ve started working in a book about teleworking. I already told some friends and got many nice messages from all over the world offering help with feedback and translations, thank you all! It will be a really challenging project, a global book, and I’m sure it will be fun.

I would like to ask for your help; I’d like to know a little more about your teleworking experiences. I am including my own and a basic list of questions that you could use as guidelines.

Plese feel free to let the Shakespeare in you go wild and tell us all of what you think is relevant about your life as a teleworker.

Continua leyendo …

For all of you, worried about writing well, I got these links:

Strunk and White, the classic “Elements of Style”, complete online version.

“The Trouble With EM’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)”, A List Apart’s great article about correctly using HTML and those little, and sometimes mysterious, characters. Yes, I know, a little anal retentive at some points but is the correct way to do it.

Enjoy!

Five seconds after post update: I just noticed that WordPress, and I guess most blog applications, does this automagically. Great!

Excuse me for using Stephen King’s excellent book title, it was the first idea I got when starting a post about writing and blogging.

I have always wanted to be a writer, who doesn’t?. I have read Mr. King’s book and, of course, the classical Elements of Style, which King himself recommends.

I also read a lot, at least 3 books a month (currently Speaker for the death by Orson Scott Card), and a lot of online content in a daily basis.

But I still feel something lacking, perhaps is that I am not used to writing?

This weblog is a great exercise for writing often, it is also a way of thinking aloud and sharing my ideas and expectations with others. Blogging is really like a therapy, a therapy for those of us who can’t live in parties (because we don’t want and we don’t need them), for those of us who like to think just because is fun.

I have just finished an article about writing a good weblog, let’s see how my writing goes.