A new article: The Surrey Iron Railway

A new article on Bukisa:
About the Surrey Iron Railway.

I am turning several of my lenses into articles after a number of users requested printable versions. My initial experiments with Lulu and free e-books was interesting, but there were complaints about download speed for the PDFs - and a few users whose security settings would not let them get the download after they requested it. If it wasn't free I'd feel quite bad for them, but fortunately I could send them one directly.

Instead, I'm now going for the best of both worlds. If the articles are on Bukisa online they can be read or printed for free by the user, and I get a penny a view for good causes so the work is still fund-raising.

Updates are likely to be patchy until after christmas though - working in ecommerce this is definitely the silly season!

A quick note

Shetoldme has worked quite well. After putting a few links up on it and leaving them, the Adsense ads do actually appear to be being clicked on (a rarity!). I've added a few more articles this morning.

Don't be put off by the girly banner - most of my clicks and votes have been on heavy engineering, steam trains and warplanes, so it takes a real range of content. It's also my referral link so if you want to join or join through here, I'd be grateful.

Real life is gettin in the way right now (sick relatives, selling a house, moving a business, all the little things...) so my updates may be erratic. Sorry.

A small update

Domebo - the person responsible was a mod. She won't apologise despite the problems she caused the board, and costing me most of yesterday dealing with the fallout. It looks like she might actually be staying on as a mod - despite not knowing what timezones are and apparently believes there's an after hours on a global messageboard. When I checked the chat last night her attitude was basically "I'm not going to apologise." After all, I am a mere user, she is (in her own mind) a godlike mod. I didn't bother to comment.

And now it looks like one of the other mods was supporting and encouraging it. Guess I'm done with them, depending on the owner's actions.

Sometimes "I am sorry, I was wrong" goes a hell of a long way.

On a more cheerful note my first articlesbase article just went live, and I am slowly dropping my links into Redgage, a system that is supposed to aggregate all your online content. I say "supposed" because the blog, video and document uploads seem to be broken at present - the joys of being an early adopter!

The Squid Challenge closes today, so we will have to see now many lenses in each group qualify as giant/top-100-worthy. Unless someone's been holding back a load of lenses and adds them today I don't think Kab's going to win, but it's been fun.