To Bookmark and then, a Mystery
Mike DeHaan
My writing workload today starts with bookmarking yesterday's Suite 101 article about how paranoid travelers should avoid bed bugs. I touched the majority of my bookmarks, but left out the three that I believe are likely to be pursued by people on their coffee breaks. That will wait until Monday.
One site, Bed Bugs Epidemic.com, was kind enough to link to my article; that accounted for one page-view. Mind you, they post many links on their front page. Their Alexa rank is over 1,000,000 and their PageRank is 2/10, so their link might not be very helpful. But I will gratefully take any referral links that are given me.
I then have a number of items on my to-do list; so many that I will defer commenting about them at this time.
One site, Bed Bugs Epidemic.com, was kind enough to link to my article; that accounted for one page-view. Mind you, they post many links on their front page. Their Alexa rank is over 1,000,000 and their PageRank is 2/10, so their link might not be very helpful. But I will gratefully take any referral links that are given me.
I then have a number of items on my to-do list; so many that I will defer commenting about them at this time.
Self-Publishing with Amazon Kindle
This interesting possibility was flagged by a Suite 101 writer. Today I spent some time reviewing what Amazon Kindle has to say about self-publishing.
My primary negative observation is that some of their information, such as the Terms of Service, seem to be in a "members-only" area. Either that, or they do not have the details yet and the register/login page is the default. Regardless, some of the details are not available.
On the other hand, it seems that any Amazon user can become a Kindle publisher. The Amazon site lists many free e-books, but the price goes into the thousands (!) of dollars for some technical material.
One of my self-defined freelance projects is pretty big, so it would be suitable for this venue. Certainly it would not be feasible to try to interest a publisher in that idea.
The Suite 101 author said he had simply written about 20-25 pages, which is far too long for an online article. He submitted that e-book via Amazon Kindle, forgot about it for a few months, and then found a royalty payment.
I am going to treat that as a fourth-level project. My priorities are:
My primary negative observation is that some of their information, such as the Terms of Service, seem to be in a "members-only" area. Either that, or they do not have the details yet and the register/login page is the default. Regardless, some of the details are not available.
On the other hand, it seems that any Amazon user can become a Kindle publisher. The Amazon site lists many free e-books, but the price goes into the thousands (!) of dollars for some technical material.
One of my self-defined freelance projects is pretty big, so it would be suitable for this venue. Certainly it would not be feasible to try to interest a publisher in that idea.
The Suite 101 author said he had simply written about 20-25 pages, which is far too long for an online article. He submitted that e-book via Amazon Kindle, forgot about it for a few months, and then found a royalty payment.
I am going to treat that as a fourth-level project. My priorities are:
- Specific projects for clients
- Research and plan to set myself up as a fitness and weight-loss coach; this had been an early goal, but I did not have a methodology for marketing and promotion
- Continue writing my self-directed articles: Suite 101 and Environmental Graffiti provide a small income stream; Squidoo has yet to attract visitors, let alone revenue; Weebly is the first "blog" site; I need to develop some more blogs in other target niches
- Self-publish Amazon Kindle e-books
Get a Charge out of Squidoo: Lithium Iron Batteries
Nine LiFePO4 Batteries by an unknown photographer, courtesy of MetaEfficient
My new lens is for batteries.
The DeHaan Lens for the Lithium Iron Battery and Charger follows up my Environmental Graffiti and Suite 101 articles on this subject.
Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries are more environmentally friendly and safer in laptops. Most are rechargeable, although Amazon seems to either sell rechargeable batteries with chargers, or non-rechargeable LiFePO4 batteries on their own. My Lens speculates why, but that is only speculation.
The DeHaan Lens for the Lithium Iron Battery and Charger follows up my Environmental Graffiti and Suite 101 articles on this subject.
Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries are more environmentally friendly and safer in laptops. Most are rechargeable, although Amazon seems to either sell rechargeable batteries with chargers, or non-rechargeable LiFePO4 batteries on their own. My Lens speculates why, but that is only speculation.