1. Most of us pay for hosting our domains in which to blog on - - however, under what circumstances would you shell out hard earned cash so that you can use the blogging platform (i.e. your blogging application). Considering Movable Type’s recent license fees - - would you? If yes, why - - If no, why not?

If Movable Type was the only game in town - possibly. If that were the case, I would, however, continue to use the old version. I’m not against paying for a decent piece of software - however, there are so many blogging platforms out there - I can’t imagine shelling out $100 a year to use a blogging program that I am limited to one blog and one, or two authors. WordPress is a better alternative - - for me, it’s a more powerful application and under it’s current licensure - it’s free to use. There are other applications out there getting much exposure due to the MT exodus. MT isn’t the only game in town - - so you gotta wonder where the confidence came from to create the current licensure program. That isn’t what drove me to WordPress - - I left Movable Type a few months before their announcement. However, I have noticed a move away from MT since 3.0 came out with it’s new pricing structure.

2. RE: Linkage - - I’ve seen many a trick to increase traffic and ratings in certain ecosystem offerings. For example - a few I’ve seen have one or two domains as a mirror to their main one and register all domains with TTLB - - so every post that you make is mirrored on the ’secondary domain’ - and each post is linked to the ‘primary domain’ which is recorded by the ecosystem as an inbound link….which could, for examle, bring your inbound links from 100 to 400 - depending. Do you have methods you use to ‘trick’ the ecosystem to skew your results to give you a higher rating? Care to share them? What tricks do you use?

I figure if people link, they link. If they don’t - they don’t. Although, I do have a secondary domain for rightvoices.com - and didn’t know that would skew my ecosystem results just by redirecting it to my main. The secondary domain is boycott-hollywood.net - - it was the original domain and when I got tired of bashing asshat liberal celebrities - I changed the primary domain and kept the old one to redirect to the new one. I just noticed, recently, that the secondary domain gives me one or two extra inbound links. I don’t think one or two make a difference .. so dont feel I’m intentionally skewing results. Other than that, wtf ever.

3. RE: Templates - - show off some of your extra add-ons you’ve been working on with your templates. What’cha been up to, huh? huh?

Believe it or not - I haven’t made any updates or changes. No, I’m not running a fever. Yes, I’m feeling ok. Life’s just been too busy as of late. As the weather gets warmer - - you don’t see me around these parts as often.

4. RE: Other blogs - - Show us some of the newer blogs you’ve linked to recently, in the past week, or so. We all like seeing new blogs and fresh material. Who are they - and why’d ya link ‘em?

Graugmagus at Frizzen Sparks is one of my newest links. Why? He’s more evil than me!

Chelle at Wild Heart. Not a new blog - and definately not a new blogger - - but she recently went away and then came back again. Yay! Why do I read her? I love the girl. Read some