Comments on: Novelr Needs Your Help

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Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:48:49 +0000

[...] Novelr Needs Your Help: So Eli over at Novelr has finally hit the big time and started receiving a fair share of pageviews. The problem with this, as anyone who’s ever run a site knows, is bandwidth. He needs more now, and doesn’t have the money to cover it, so he’s sort of asking for donations. Now, if you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know that I don’t often ask for money. In fact, the only time I’ve ever even mentioned donations is when I added that “Donations” area at the bottom of my home page, with links to the Methuselah Foundation and the Digestive Distress and Dysmotilities Association. (As you can guess, the donations aren’t for me. I’m in the very, very fortunate position of being able to offer Gnorb.NET for free, since Google Ads pay enough to cover the bandwidth.) But I’m asking you, if you have a few dollars to spare, to help a blogger out. [...]

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:04:50 +0000

Well, I’m glad you enjoyed your stay, Bjorn. Good luck with that blook!

By: Björn Schneider

Björn Schneider — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:40:31 +0000

Well,

I was one of these »stumblers« :) The entry referenced was pretty standard (sorry) and can be found on almost every second »how-to-write« page on the net. I don’t really know, why people continue bookmarking it wherever they find it…

What me actually got sticking to your page was the word »blook« I had trouble finding out what it actually meant. :) Then I read on… and on… And now I’m actually thinking of starting an own. Well, we’ll see. But it’s most likely to be in German, but I might add an English translation in parallel. Haven’t decided, yet. First I should get some buffer written ^.^

Thanks for sharing all that stuff about this still uncommon, new way of publishing :)

cu,
Björn

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:37:00 +0000

Thanks Sharon.

Those hits are stumbleupon users – somebody bookmarked one post I wrote over a year ago (one that I wasn’t even proud off) and it sort of went out of control.

It’s not very nice having that amount of traffic. I worry at night that the site would crash.

But the more exposure for blooking and digital fiction the better, so I shouldn’t complain.

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.

By: bibliobibuli

bibliobibuli — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:55:24 +0000

sent you some dosh – hope it gets through ok

am madly jealous of the number of hits. my most ever was just over 800 in a day. you’re clearly doing something right.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:26:48 +0000

Thanks, Bjorn. I’ve fixed it now.

By: Björn Schneider

Björn Schneider — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:35:47 +0000

Hi,

the Donate-button doesn’t seem to work correctly. I get a »We were unable to decrypt the certificate id.«-error from Paypal. Better try to correct that soon, unless you don’t need it anymore — or kick their a** if it’s on Paypal’s side ;)

cu,
Björn

By: Eli James

Eli James — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:36:30 +0000

Thanks, Sam. =)

Now I’ll just have to figure out how to turn ice-cream into bandwidth. Ebay, perhaps!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:33:48 +0000

I’ll give you Ice-cream. Once I can =]
Then you can bounce around the whole night thinking of more stuff to write about here.