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I am appalled by Gov. Herbert's comparison of the legal battles over same-sex marriage to a game. "It's like stopping a game in the middle of the contest. ... You can't stop in the middle. You've got to play to the final buzzer" ("Utah will take fight to U.S. high court," June 26).
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The end of pay
Submitted by Anonymous on March 15, 2004 - 21:29
I figured it'd be a good idea to put this in the forum, seeing as the Keenspot Press Release is almost off of the main page. The release sparked an interesting question: is the success of free webcomics outweighing that of subscription-based ones? Pasted from the comments:
I think, if nothing else, this press release shows the enormously underestimated ability of free comics to turn a profit. This seriously brings into question the necessity of a pay-model for webcomics at all.
The only benefit of the pay-model, that I can see, is for comics that require a huge amount of KBs per page. The ad model still requires each page to have roughly less than 100K, but this limit is quickly disappearing. It makes me think that, rather than the "end of free," we shall soon be seeing "the end of pay." -Anonymous
I am inclined to agree, from the look of these current statistics. Keenspot's value as a company is steadily rising, and it is reaping the benefits of free comics with book/merchandise sales and advertising. Not to say subscription sites are failing - they have also enjoyed growth - but seemingly at the cost of potential readers/buyers.
What do you think?
by John Troutman - 03/15/2004 - 22:21
Oh, I think the pay model will stick around for quite a while. But the fact remains that it severely limits the amount of readers you can get. This pretty much makes your only sole source of revenue the subscriptions yourself, since you don't have enough of a fanbase to sell much merchandise. On the free end of things, you get readers by the truckload thanks to the fact that your comic is, well, free. This method allows you to unload a lot more merchandise - such as tee-shirts - and even to sell subscriptions to other, "extra" comics.
The pay model still has merit, I've been thinking recently that the free model is actually more profitable for the artist.
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by kjc - 03/18/2004 - 20:18
Why not enlarge the comic image? Make the comic part of the image & then put text in the rest of the image. Something like "If you are not seeing this comics at http: //my.url then this image may have been STOLEN! See http: //explanation.url for more details!"
Just like paperback books that say "If this book doesn't have a cover, a bookseller may have ripped it off to claim a refund and then turned around and sold the book illegally" or whatever those little notes say.
And if you provide an RSS feed and you WANT people to have your comic on their sites, you could put in the text space something like "See http: //my.url for t-shirts/buttons/snackie-cakes! More content at http: //my.url! Fun fun fun!" and entice people to come back to your site...
Just thinking out loud...
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by Chris Crosby - 03/16/2004 - 07:04
On the web, I don't think there is EVER "the end of" ANYTHING. It's a wonderful, magical place where pay comics and free comics can happily thrive at the exact same time. Keenspot welcomes as many revenue streams as possible.
However, it seems to me that advertising sponsorship is the most VIABLE way to make money directly from publishing entertainment online, just as it is broadcasting entertainment on television. There are hundreds of ad-supported cable networks like MTV and Cartoon Network, but only a handful of pay channels like HBO and Showtime. (That said, HBO and Showtime do amazingly well.)
In related news of interest, "Skirting Danger" attracted 13,937 unique visitors and generated 208,476 pagviews on Monday, its first day officially on Keenspot. Congrats, Meredith!
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by Bob Corona - 03/18/2004 - 15:35
Education cuts both ways?
"As for the stealing part... posting something on the net is pretty much the equivalent of parking your unlocked car in the middle of the bad part of town. Sure stealing is bad... and I think most people know this... but your car is still gonna get stolen."
So the goal here is to foster an image of the internet as "the bad part of town"? Living as I do in a town where you can leave your car unlocked anywhere without losing it, I'd rather try to support a model of online community where people respect each other. Saying online content is fair game is saying that you can't be bothered holding yourself to normal standards of decency because online theft is easy. That's not what I call education.
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by Bob Corona - 03/19/2004 - 02:16
No, Dunedin. It's a nice place; you should visit :)
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by Joey Manley - 03/17/2004 - 22:52
Yeah, it's too bad that Modern Tales doesn't offer the latest installment of every single comic for free, as well as about a hundred free pages in the archives. Always. IF we did something like that, you might be able to get a sense of what you're buying.
Oh. Wait a minute. We do.
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by Joey Manley - 03/18/2004 - 14:55
So if I leave my purse unattended at the laundry mat, it's "fair game" for you to take it?
Not that I carry a purse.
Just curious.
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by Petie Shumate - 03/15/2004 - 22:38
I think that an artist would be better off having a free model, and a subscription model. A free comic, and a subscription comic. The free comic allows you to get people interested enough to subscribe, and could stand as a viable revenue source on its own. Of course, if you can keep two good comics going at once, you'll find some way to get money.
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by Joey Manley - 03/15/2004 - 22:35
On "the end of pay":
Pay comics and free comics will both happily co-exist, just as pay TV and free TV do. Commercial comics that are designed to reach mass audiences (think network television) will do well on an advertising model, while commercial comics that are more of an acquired-taste/cult-following kind of thing (think HBO) will do well on a pay model. Popular as they are (or were), The Soprano's or Sex in the City would have never made it on network television. For the widest possible diversity of comics types and story types, both models are necessary -- and more models need to be invented.
And, of course, non-commercial comics will always be free. And many of those are fantastic.
That we have done as well as we have, competing with so many great free comics, both commercial and non-commercial, is a sure sign of the strength of the pay model, and the need for it.
Some of the Graphic Smash artists who either are currently on, or have been on, Keenspot, for example, made much less than they might make at Keenspot.
But at least one made much more, from what they tell me.
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by Joey Manley - 03/17/2004 - 13:06
When I was employed at a multimedia dotcom not owned by me, I had a meeting with some company that promised it could make web pages unrippable. The price was in the six figures PER YEAR for a license, plus a percentage of our site's sales. I took their demo, handed it to my lead staff programmer, and he came up with exactly twenty-seven ways to work around it by the end of the week. The first one was "hit the Print Screen key on your keyboard."
I'm afraid the answer to this problem is not to be found in technology -- or, okay, I'm afraid that the kind of technology that could solve this problem (permanent identification of individual computers, and registration of those computers to correspond with a particular person's identity, etc) is so creepy that we probably don't want to live with the other consequences. For example, if my computer can be uniquely identified on the Internet, I won't be able to steal webstrips with abandon -- but maybe I could be denied a job because I habitually read sexylosers.org on my home computer, and some corporate profiler has decided that that indicates an unstable personality.
So it's tough.
Aside from that, there's the issue of trust and friendliness between customer and seller. When I go to a pay site with heavy security systems in place, I feel like I'm in a record store (they're usually music sites), and that the employees are following me around with baseball bats in case I try to steal something. This doesn't tend to make me inclined to buy.
I think the best answer is education. We have to make people understand that it's a bad thing to steal, and that just because they CAN doesn't mean it's right. Sounds lame, I know, but ... well, okay, I'm lame.
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by Joey Manley - 03/18/2004 - 16:57
You yourself compared taking content without the copyright owner's permission to stealing a car. Perhaps you might want to edit that post, to make it more clear, so that people responding won't misinterpret your comments.
That there are scum out there doesn't mean we have to tolerate their scumminess. To take your second paragraph, and apply it to the real world: "There are people who will always steal. What can you do? For centuries upon centuries, there have been laws against stealing, and yet, people still steal. I guess we just have to stop worrying about it and let it be."
Nah. Doesn't work.
On the legal front: I've posted some legal links under the main Comictastic story, which is what we're all really talking about here. I'm not saying they're definitive. The issue, legally, isn't as cut and dried as either side would have you believe -- at least in the US. So far. In other countries (Germany, Denmark), it's another story.
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by FractalDragon - 03/18/2004 - 17:30
sigh... again, you have missed my point entirely. trying to explain things to you is like banging my head against a brick wall... I giev up...
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by Erik Melander - 03/18/2004 - 19:24
I found an article entitled "When People Pay What They Think Content Is Worth" (url http://www.clickz.com/experts/design/freefee/print.php/3310761) on the zwol.org messageboard. Quite an interesting read even though its hard to make any general points from it IMO.
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by Uncle Ghastly - 03/15/2004 - 23:46
Damnit! That was me. Forgot to log in it would seem.
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by Joey Manley - 03/18/2004 - 17:20
"As far as I'm concerned" is not a definitive legal argument, Mr. Dragon.
Like I said, I've posted some legal links. Some US judges have agreed with you. Some have not. It's an issue that will be definitively decided someday.
I wouldn't want to be in the business that Spiny is in -- nor would anybody who doesn't want legal problems out the yinyang. That they are charging for the software exposes them to serious, serious, serious liability -- if they happen to get the wrong judge.
All of that said, this is something of a hijacking of the "end of pay" thread. A comic scraper, if it were pointed at Modern Tales comics, would not hurt our business model, assuming that it continued to work the way it does now (showing the latest installment of any given comic and a link to its homepage). Nope. It's Keenspot and Keenspace, and a hundred thousand other free, advertising-supported webcomics, who are hurt hard by such things. So this topic doesn't really support "the end of pay" at all, sorry to say, FD.
Like I said, check the main thread on Comictastic for more legal links & info.
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by kiwi - 03/18/2004 - 19:56
The second SEPARATE idea is that no matter what you do, there will be people who steal. Sure, it's wrong and it's illegal (I never mentioned that it wasn't), but the nature of the digital format is that it's easy to steal... as easy as say, an unlocked car. Should we just learn to tolerate scumminess? of course not. But to deny that these people exist, and that they do not conform to any law you pass is folly. As in real life, if you really don't want something to be stolen, don't put it in a place where it can be easily stolen... i.e. don't post it on the net.
So basically you're saying that if webcartoonists don't want to be ripped off, they shouldn't make webcomics. I suppose a store owner should close up shop when somebody nabs a few magazines. Thanks for contributing your view on how to help the issue.
Also, nobody is denying the existence of these people - they're the whole reason the topic shifted to it like this.
Ghastly makes some great points, as well as some metaphors that are actually relevant! :D Teaching people that webcomics are endangered by their practice would be a worthwhile effort. For all the spam, viruses and ripping programs on the net, there ARE plenty of people who are just ignorant. I would be all in favor of a week where webcartoonists draw educational strips on the survival of their trade.
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by FractalDragon - 03/18/2004 - 14:46
Just as a note, I think the "education" thing works both ways.
I think businesses need to understand that fighting technology is futile. If people post something in an open forum like the internet, that thing is going to be accessed in every way possible, whether the posters intended it to be accessed that way or not. IMO, if you post it on the net, it's fair game.
As for the stealing part... posting something on the net is pretty much the equivalent of parking your unlocked car in the middle of the bad part of town. Sure stealing is bad... and I think most people know this... but your car is still gonna get stolen. And I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts (and they'd better be krispie kremes) that the people who steal your car know that stealing is bad... but they do it anyway.
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by FractalDragon - 03/18/2004 - 16:52
sigh... somehow I knew people would twist my words around. There are two separate ideas in my post.
The first is that the nature of the internet is that it's designed so that people can access it, and do it easily. That's to say, if you put an image on the net, people are going to download it (really a moot point since you have to download it to see it). It's not the same as leaving a purse unattended at a laundry mat. If you want a better comparison, it's like leaving your purse unattended on a table next to a sign that says "free stuff". The point is, posting something on the net and expecting people to not download it is like stepping into the ocean and not expecting to get wet. If you really don't want your work being downloaded and spread around... then don't put it on the net. It's that simple. This really is a case where you can't have your cake and eat it too.
The second, separate, idea is that it only takes a handful of "bad eggs" to ruin something. Now I personally love all the opportunities that it provides. I also love a lot of the "model communities" that are on the net. But that doesn't change the fact that the internet is full of scum (just look at all the viruses, scam spam, etc.). It doesn't really matter what you support. It doesn't matter what normal decency standard you hold yourself to. The fact is, there are people out there who won't adhere to any standard.
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by Uncle Ghastly - 03/19/2004 - 16:04
That's why the lad's named Hard.
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by hard - 03/19/2004 - 06:14
Oh, I plan to visit! For sure!
...uh, where exactly do you park your car again?
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by RPin - 03/18/2004 - 20:09
[quote:1d6c7d5de0="kiwi"]I would be all in favor of a week where webcartoonists draw educational strips on the survival of their trade.
So would I.
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by Anonymous - 03/17/2004 - 17:43
For my money, Modertales' drug dealer method of "Pay comics" is the best soultion I've seen thus far to the problem at hand.
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by Anonymous - 03/17/2004 - 19:40
I prefer free samples of my coke before paying for what turns out to be a bag of flour.
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by Anonymous - 03/19/2004 - 00:20
[quote:fcca7984f2="joeymanley"]Yeah, it's too bad that Modern Tales doesn't offer the latest installment of every single comic for free, as well as about a hundred free pages in the archives. Always. IF we did something like that, you might be able to get a sense of what you're buying.
Oh. Wait a minute. We do.
See... just like a drug dealer.
"I need more Fetus X, man!"
"Gotta pay for it now."
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by Anonymous - 03/19/2004 - 00:22
[quote:47023e2be3="RobertoCorona"] Living as I do in a town where you can leave your car unlocked anywhere without losing it, I'd rather try to support a model of online community where people respect each other..
There will have to be much bloodshed before this becomes a possibilty.
And what town is this anyway, Smallville?
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by FractalDragon - 03/18/2004 - 17:15
sigh... Mr. Mansley, I did state that the above was 2... II... TWO... separate ideas. The first idea... about stuff being fair game, is referring to "comic scrapers". That is to say, that if you put something online... people are going to download it. As far as I'm concerned, there is no violation of copyright there. It's not stealing. You're accessing data that's freely availible on the net (not password or account protected).
The second SEPARATE idea is that no matter what you do, there will be people who steal. Sure, it's wrong and it's illegal (I never mentioned that it wasn't), but the nature of the digital format is that it's easy to steal... as easy as say, an unlocked car. Should we just learn to tolerate scumminess? of course not. But to deny that these people exist, and that they do not conform to any law you pass is folly. As in real life, if you really don't want something to be stolen, don't put it in a place where it can be easily stolen... i.e. don't post it on the net.
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by Erik Melander - 03/16/2004 - 08:35
I imagine that different type of comics benefits from different sources of revenue. The value of putting the archive belonging to a strip comic behind a subscriptoin wall may be less than the value the archive has of attracting new readers.
A storybased comic's archive (I realise that there is no sharp border between these two types, but for the sake of the argument lets assume so), on the other hand, may have a larger value by selling subscriptions. Especially by offering the first chapter for free "trapping" readers.
Storybased comics often can't (my opinion) offer as compelling merchandise as a stripcomic. They often lack the punchlines and catchphrases that sells t-shirts and swag.
Ads seem to be rather independent of the comictype, as long as it accumulates readers.
I've no idea if there is any basis for these assumptions I've made, it's just how I imagine it may be.
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by Uncle Ghastly - 03/16/2004 - 01:10
[quote:21a6816dfd="petie123"]I think that an artist would be better off having a free model, and a subscription model. A free comic, and a subscription comic. The free comic allows you to get people interested enough to subscribe, and could stand as a viable revenue source on its own. Of course, if you can keep two good comics going at once, you'll find some way to get money.
That would probably be what I would do if I decided to go behind a subscription curtain. Keep Ghastly's Ghastly Comic free and use the "fame" I bank on that project to direct people towards my subscription project. But that's assuming I ever find the free time to draw two comics.
I'm already contemplating starting a second comic sometime in the not-too-disctant future, but it won't be a subscription comic either.
I'll probably just pull GGC off Keen and then host it on the new comic on its own independent server then use ads to pay server costs and generate a little bit of income. Covering hosting isn't that difficult with ads what with bandwidth being available as cheaply as 50 cents a gigabyte. And when you get 600K+ adviews like GGC does, it doesn't matter if your adnetwork is only able to fill 1/4 of the adviews. If you rotate the non-paying banners between multiple networks you've got it covered.
The combination of merchandising and adrevinues works for quite a few artists.
The downside is you've got to be very popular to pull it off if it's what you want to do for a living.
But like I said, I'm already doing what I want to do for a living, for a living, so it's all just extra gravy on the poutine for me.
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by SleepyJim - 03/15/2004 - 21:59
I can't comment directly on the subscription model, but I do agree that the free model has been seriously underestimated. I know several cartoonists that are making their living off of free webcomics (the majority of Dumbrella, as an example), and I've recently started to make some money with it myself.
I'm not approaching "living status," but I've have made a decent amount, mostly from t-shirt sales. In a 4-month period, I managed to sell roughly 500 shirts off of 3 models, with a profit of ~$4.50 per shirt. I'm not sure what my ad revenue was during that period; something above 100 but below 1k.
I can't be sure whether I would have made the same profit from a subscription model, but I certainly wouldn't have made it from t-shirt sales.
That underscores my main issue with pay sites, actually. They require people to pay first, become readers second. It's always seemed more intuitive to me to make people readers first, sell things to them second. Hence the t-shirts, and soon books. Once you have people hooked, they're pretty likely to send you some money, one way or another.
To be fair, I don't know how well subscription site merchandise does, but with a model that inherently limits readership as heavily as it does, I'd wager it isn't very significant. I could be wrong though.
Will the pay model end? I dunno, but I do think the free model will be more economically viable in the long run.
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by Anonymous - 03/19/2004 - 14:34
Stealing the cars is the easy part...driving them back to Japan is hard.
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by Uncle Ghastly - 03/18/2004 - 19:17
The internet is not like putting a purse on a table with a sign that says "Free Stuff".
The internet is like hanging a painting on a wall in a free public gallery where people are allowed to come in and look at it. They're not allowed to grab the painting off the wall, photocopy it and then post the photocopies all over town where ever they want.
People who use these comic rippers are guilty of copyright violation. Fair Use does not cover this kind of copying. Even worse, most of these comic ripper programmes don't even just take a copy of the picture and post it, they hotlink the image off the server hosting it thus they are literally stealing the bandwidth from that host, this costs money and with a popular comic it costs a lot of money.
There is absolutely no justification for using a comic ripper. It is selfishness pure and simple. The people using these programs are saying "My selfish desire to see these comics conveniently on one page outweighs the rights of the artists to display their work within the context they wish it to be displayed. My laziness is more important than the continued existance of these comics."
If you want convenience then create a links page of links to all your favorite comics, don't copy the artwork of the artists or steal their bandwidth.
There's no "sticking it to the man" ethic behind these comic rippers. You're not sticking it to some corporation selling a 6 song CD for $25 that only has one good song on it. You're stealing the bandwidth from independent artists who in most cases are already giving you the ability to view their work for free. These comic rippers are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
There's no point in fighting it tech-to-tech. Keenspace has already been trying that and the comic rippers have already beaten it. The only thing the tech fixes have done was made it difficult for some legitimate readers to view our comics. It was a nice effort but ultimately it was futile. The only way we're going to beat the comic rippers is to educate the people who use this software.
I think a week where all us webcomic artists post images that explain to our readers how these comic ripper programs hurt the webcomic community and by using them they threaten the continued presence of free comics on the internet might be a good idea. Maybe when people go a week without their favorite webcomics they'll appreciate them a bit more. Maybe they'll realize that there's a price to be paid for their selfishness and laziness and that perhaps the end of webcomics is not worth a little bit of convenience. There will still be assholes who make and use this kind of software but we will educate a few people who will realize there is a consequence to these programs and that the artists are being victimised by them. I know this for a fact because I posted a rant about this subject some time ago on my newspage and I've since received about a dozen e-mails from people who used to use these ripper programs but did not understand the cost to the webcomic community these programs extracted and they have since stopped using these programs in the interest of protecting webcomics and respecting the rights of the artists.
Legal action against the people who write these programs would be great if you can find them. Right now though I think educating the users is the way to go. There is simply no justification for using these comic rippers other than selfishness and laziness.
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by hard - 03/17/2004 - 07:16
One potential problem that free comics have on the horizon is the availability of comic rippers.
As we know, the biggest financial problem free comics face is bandwidth. It is still not as cheap as anyone would like, and popularity tends to increase faster than bandwidth gets cheaper. Advertising support is one of the primary ways in which bandwidth costs are covered.
However, with comic rippers like dailystrips and icomic, one can download an archive without even requiring to visit the site once. If your archive is big, imagine the damage these apps can do once they get popular. And apps, like the comics themselves, tend to get more popular, not less. We can expect more people to be using these apps in the future.
I've fought these things for years, and the only thing I've noticed is that there are always workarounds to whatever I've thrown at them. I banned incorrect HTTP_REFERERs, and perl, curl, etc has built in workarounds for IP faking. I've snapped the comic into half a dozen pieces, only to see people ripping the tables themselves from the HTML and reassembling the pieces with ImageMagik. I've tried to talk to the creators of these programs to no avail. Now, I've banned most scripts from the site through robots.txt but of course, people make new scripts.
Webcomic hosts should really get together on this problem. Perhaps if we put our heads together, we can make sure that free comics stick around for a long time. Maybe an online symposium?
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The end of pay
by Anonymous - 03/15/2004 - 21:29
I figured it'd be a good idea to put this in the forum, seeing as the Keenspot Press Release is almost off of the main page. The release sparked an interesting question: is the success of free webcomics outweighing that of subscription-based ones? Pasted from the comments:
I think, if nothing else, this press release shows the enormously underestimated ability of free comics to turn a profit. This seriously brings into question the necessity of a pay-model for webcomics at all.
The only benefit of the pay-model, that I can see, is for comics that require a huge amount of KBs per page. The ad model still requires each page to have roughly less than 100K, but this limit is quickly disappearing. It makes me think that, rather than the "end of free," we shall soon be seeing "the end of pay." -Anonymous
I am inclined to agree, from the look of these current statistics. Keenspot's value as a company is steadily rising, and it is reaping the benefits of free comics with book/merchandise sales and advertising. Not to say subscription sites are failing - they have also enjoyed growth - but seemingly at the cost of potential readers/buyers.
What do you think?
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by Anonymous - 03/15/2004 - 23:43
For me it doesn't come down to an issue of money. What money I make off my comic all comes from the merchandising. I'm not trying to make a living off my comic. I'm just happy getting more money out than I put in. I already make a living with the best dayjob anyone could ever hope for.
For me free is the only option. Readers are more important to me than money. Currently I've got over 52000 readers each week (not bad for a guy who only does one comic a week). If I went behind the subscription curtain I'd probably only be getting what? 520 readers? Not really worth it just to make a couple of bucks. As far as I know none of the Modern Tale and Keenspot artists are making a living off their webcomics. They're all working dayjobs too.
Even from a money angle it makes more sense to attract more readers with a free comic than only a few dozen with a pay comic. More readers I get the more people to buy the merchandising. The more readers I get the more adviews I get if I'm going with an adview model. More readers I get, more people I've got interested in the print version.
Since I'm not into it for the money at all I'm really only interested in having my stories reach as many interested people as possible and free seems to be the best way to do that.
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by Anonymous - 03/16/2004 - 00:15
Fair enough, from an individual perspective. But what about webcartoonists who do draw in hopes of making money? It's hard to rule out this idea, when many artists spend large chunks of their day drawing. I'm keeping in mind the fact that webcartooning should be fun - but it takes time!
To say that such a time-consuming task can only be a hobby will potentially exclude a lot of talented but time-restricted artists. This seems like a shame to me, especially when I've seen so many excellent webcartoonists be forced to quit their comic for lack of funds to justify the time.
So, in the case of the starving artist, what is there to do? Interesting feedback so far, I must say. Though I'm still leaning toward the free system, subscription-based systems do seem to work very well for certain features.
As Joey mentioned before, some Modern Tales artists have come directly from Keenspot. According to the Keenspot press release, the comic Skirting Danger has recently done the opposite. It would be interesting to see the statistics of artists who've experimented with both systems. [/i]
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by Anonymous - 03/16/2004 - 17:44
On the other hand, comics with complex storylines are near impossible to get "into" from the latest strip. If a reader only discovers the comic after months of story development, it's pretty much guaranteed that they'll have no idea what's going on and not be interested. The reader is then put into the position to shell out money for something they don't know they like.
Comics with short, simple gags, storylines and characters (more like newspaper strips) almost seem like the better candidate. A person can read the comic for weeks before deciding if they'd like to subscribe - and if they miss a day, they won't give up. The strip American Elf is a decent example of this. Of course, again, the issue of readership and marketability comes into play...
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APYN History
Alcohol Policy Youth Network (APYN) represents a direct outcome of a series of political processes that continuously asked for higher youth participation in the definition, implementation and evaluation of policies and programmes tackling the harmful consumption of alcohol.
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The motivation for establishing APYN was the European Union's Council of Health Ministers' meeting in Stockholm in 2001 that stated the need to "increase young peoples involvement in youth health-related policies and action", thus aiming to protect young people and reduce their hazardous and harmful drinking.
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In 2004-2006 Eurocare in partnership with the European Youth Forum succeeded to implement this policy, through a project funded by the European Commission.
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In 2006, having the support of ACTIS Norway and IOGT-NTO Sweden, the Norwegian and Swedish Government financed the European Youth Forum to convene a working group to produce a position paper on alcohol. The report recognized that youth organizations have an important role to play in influencing public policy to prevent and reduce alcohol-related harm among young people.
In the light of this report, Alliance House Foundation then financed the setting up of "Alcohol Policy Youth Network" project, gathering representatives of National Youth Councils, European organizations and the European section of the International Federation of Medical Students to oversee the development of this network, having also support of the Institute of Alcohol Studies.
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In March 2008, at the European Youth Center in Budapest, the Alcohol Policy Youth network was launched informally. During this Constitutive meeting we gave birth to the first ever all embracing youth network that prevents and reduces Alcohol related harm and identified the working areas that the future network would tackle, the needs that youth organisations must satisfy to be more involved in alcohol policy-making and its' implementation, as well as developing the first action plan that has been revised and updated on the 2010′s annual coordination meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.
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In 2011, APYN finally became a formally established international non-governmental organization as a result of the two year project financed by the EU Health Programme (EAHC), co-financed by the International Organisation of Good Templars from Sweden (IOGT-NTO) and the Alliance House Foundation.
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APYN has been awarded a number of project grants from the European Commission, out of which, the main are:
- in 2012 APYN organized the 1st European Alcohol Policy Youth Conference for around 100 young people from most of the European countries, which was financed by the European Commissions' Youth in Action Programme and co-financed by the Slovenian Ministry of Health;
- in 2013, APYN has been working in the direction of a more effective and comprehensive alcohol policy in Europe in line with young people's needs and suggestions, and for this we organized the 1st Regional European Alcohol Policy Youth Conference in December 2013, in Chisinau, Moldova, focused on the Eastern Europe and Caucasus countries;
- also in 2013, APYN got awarded a grant for a so-called "Triangle pilot project" that aims at connecting national public health stakeholders (excluding the alcohol industry) from three countries (Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia) in developing effective and comprehensive national alcohol policy and develop guidelines for "triangles" establishment in other countries;
- for the 2013-2015 period APYN got another grant from the EU Health Programme to implement the project "Let it hAPYN" that aims at empowering the youth sector with a better overview of evidence-based Alcohol Intervention Programmes.
APYN Now
APYN is currently in the process of positioning itself among youth organizations and relevant institutions in Europe.
APYN has played an active part in the EU Alcohol and Health Forum and has been supportive of the WHO Global Alcohol Strategy, and is presently a member of Eurocare – the European Alcohol Policy Alliance, EAHF – the European Alcohol and Health Forum, and the members of APYN, as individuals, are also members of APN – Alcohol Policy Network.
The Alcohol Policy Youth Network is a network of youth organizations that work towards the prevention and reduction of alcohol-related harm. APYN develops and supports effective alcohol policy to assure healthy lifestyles and environments for young people. We do this through building capacity of youth organizations on:
- research on young people and alcohol;
- advocacy of alcohol policy;
- maintaining or changing attitudes and behaviors that would improve young people's well being.
APYN is non-partisan and independent from any source of tobacco and alcohol industry funding. All its work is evidence-based. » Download APYN Constitution «
APYN Supporters
We are very thankful to our supporters, to be able to be spreading the word about alcohol-related harm among European youth.
» The Executive Agency for Health and Consumers - Health Programme, European Union
This website arises from the project "Alcohol Policy Youth Network" which has received funding from the European Union in the framework of the Health Programme. The Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC) financed this project for the period of 1st January 2010 to May 2011. In April 2013 APYN was awarded with a grant by EAHC for the project "Let it hAPYN!" that seeks for best practice in alcohol interventions in youth organizations. More about this project can be followed on www.letithapyn.eu.
More about the EAHC can be found on their website.
Institute of Alcohol Studies «
The core aim of the Institute of Alcohol Studies is to serve the public interest on public policy issues linked to alcohol, by advocating for the use of scientific evidence in policy-making to reduce alcohol-related harm. The Institute does not have a view on whether individuals should drink or not drink.
Legally speaking, it's an educational charity (No. 1112671) aiming to educate, preserve and protect the good health of the public by:
- promoting the scientific understanding of beverage alcohol and the individual, societal and health consequences of its consumption;
- promoting measures for the prevention of alcohol-related problems and to promote for the public benefit research into beverage alcohol and to publish the useful results. For more information, go to IAS' website.
» Eurocare
A very important supporter to us is Eurocare – the European Alcohol Policy Alliance. Together with European Youth Forum (below) they have made a commitment to the European Alcohol and Health Forum to establish our organization back in 2008 which resulted in several activities after that and led to the official establishment of the international youth organization APYN on 27th May 2011. Nowadays, APYN is a full member of Eurocare.
European Youth Forum «
Independently established by youth organisations, the European Youth Forum is made up of more than 90 National Youth Councils and International Non-Governmental Youth Organisations, which are federations of youth organisations in themselves. It brings together tens of millions of young people from all over Europe, organised in order to represent their common interests.
Representation, internal democracy, independence, openness and inclusion are among the main principles for the functioning of the European Youth Forum and its Member Organisations. Their vision is to be the voice of young people in Europe, where young people are equal citizens and are encouraged and supported to achieve their fullest potential as global citizens. The European Youth Forum is an independent, democratic, youth-led platform, representing national youth councils and international youth organisations from across Europe.
» Slovenian Ministry of Health
Slovenian Ministry Health has been supportive to the APYN cause from 2011 on when they have made everything possible to assure that the organization would get registered in Slovenia. Preliminary they have been a great supporter to various European Alcohol Policy initiatives and the sustainer of the network of supporters of comprehensive alcohol legislation. They are supporters of the above mentioned Let it hAPYN project and help sustain the position of APYN in the international community as well.


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Facilities are older but operable and being renovated
Remodeling everything. So, outside view is poor. I'm sure once it's finished is will look beautiful.
Cheap and near medical center. Staff very kind.
Chain on door broken. What does that tell you?
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1. no lighting in parking area 2. room not safe, unable to lock door from inside 3. ceiling in room hanging and shabby 4. staff stated that all rooms were like that room and refused to change 5. pay for room but did not stay
the price is low and the location is near medical center
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Everything else. In order to get to the office you have to be buzzed in. No thanks. I highly recommend NOT staying here. Totally unsafe area.
It was quiet and very close to many things like grocery stores and Target, restaurants and NRG stadium.
They are currently redoing the exterior stucco on the entire complex so it looked abandoned. When that's fixed I believe they will have more bookings.
First room we were assigned to had roaches in the bath tub. Glad we inspected the room when we first walked in. Second room was better except had no toilet paper. Told employee, he had to take some from a vacant room.
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Staff very helpful. Location excellent for Reliant Stadium.
Needs a bit more work on the exterior.
It is close to the arena where was the OTC, it is only few minutes walk to there
The room was not clean and the bed sheets smell nasty
Configuration of building was nice and helped make the place feel private and more quiet.
There was a kitchen, but they did not have any pots, pans, dishes, etc. Travelers don't carry those things with them. Basically wasted money to get a kitchen. Hopefully, they are in the process of painting, because the outside looks like they've tried to cover up a bunch of graffiti.
Old hotel, needs more renovation
Fridge and microwave were nice and despite being next to the road the room was soundproofed and very quiet. Bedding was clean and beds were comfortable.
Room was very small and TV reception was spotty. No phone in the room and they are working on parts of the property
Clean rooms Decent beds Nice staff Really close to the hospitals Decent price. It was fine for what we needed. Just a place to sleep after and before being at the hospital for hours and hours. I like the way it's set up all the cars away from the main road.
The out side was kind of off putting, either they are remodeling or were damaged and never bothered to repair but that really wasn't that big of a deal. Our biggest complaint was the water in the shower it went from scalding hot to ice cold and back again with out even touching the temp. My brother said it almost burned him, we both like our showers pretty hot.
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I know I am rooting for you on Sunday for sure.
(I also hope Brazil remembers karma is gunna get you)
(MOST of ) The people of Colombia
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"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance." Psalm 33:12.
Love and sympathy is sent to the family of Alan Hudspeth in his death last Friday, April 4, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after a brief illness. The husband of Deborah (Epting) Hudspeth and father of two sons, Connor and Joel, he was also the son-in-law of Rev. and Mrs. Joe Epting of New Albany. My sister, Nancy Green and I were both associated with Alan during our employment at the North Mississippi Branch Experiment Station. He worked for Agricultural Research Service from an office located on the grounds of the Station where they conducted agricultural experiments. A dedicated Christian, Alan was as fine a person as you could ever meet. He and his family were members of First Baptist Church in Tupelo which became their church home following their wedding in 1994. I consider them as my extended family. His death was sudden and has left a very large impact in the lives of many family members and friends. He had a quiet demeanor, but was loved by all. He went to work one Friday and was gone the next Friday. Visitation was held at First Baptist Church in Tupelo on Sunday night with funeral services at the church on Monday at 1 p.m. Burial was in Glenfield Cemetery in New Albany.
The Southern Image Quartet will be in concert at Winborn United Methodist Church on Saturday, April 12 beginning at 5 p.m. There will also be an open mike session if anyone else would like to sing. A meal will be served in the fellowship hall following the program of music. Everyone is invited to attend and share the blessings and good fellowship, stated church members.
Ken and Haven (Hale) Daniels are rejoicing, along with their parents, grandparents, and other relatives, on the birth of twins, Selah Greer (19-1/2 inches, six pounds, 13 ounces), and Wesley James (19 inches, six pounds, 7 ounces) on Tuesday, April 1 in Huntsville, Ala. Maternal grandparents are Kerry and Lela Hale and paternal grandparents are Gary and Judy Daniels. Great-grandparents are Guy K. and Betty Shaw of Holly Springs, and Louise Daniels Jennings and the late James Daniels of the Lake Center community.
The granddaughter of Johnny and Laverne Westmoreland, Anna Miller, will be graduating from Rockdale Magnet School of Science and Technology in Conyers, Ga., this spring. She will be attending the University of Georgia in Athens and participate in their honors program starting in the fall. At the university she will double major in animal sciences with equine management and domestic animal biology emphasis. Anna is the daughter of Mike and Ellen (Westmoreland) Miller. Needless to say, the parents and grandparents are very proud of this young lady!
Now that the school year is drawing near, end-of-the year testing and activities are in progress. Area schools had their proms this past weekend. Wall Doxey State Park was the venue for the Potts Camp Junior/Senior Prom on Friday night. This year's theme was "A Night Under the Stars." The lodge was beautifully decorated using stars, balloons, twinkle lights, and candles, according to prom committee members, consisting of teachers and students. There was also a photo booth, and plenty of music for dancing (provided by a representative of DeSoto County DJs), and snack foods. According to one chaperone, everyone had a great time and enjoyed the evening. Congratulations to seniors Conner Miller and Halley Holtzlander who were selected as the 2014 Prom King and Queen.
Searching for family genealogy, Jeanette Stone has been digging up some interesting information on our family. A couple of weeks ago I accompanied her to Tippah County to visit with a relative to gather information and also to visit graves of deceased relatives. This past Sunday, she and another sister, Margaret Hart, with the help of Jeanette's husband, Mitch, found the graves of our great-great-grandparents, the Hunnicutts, who are buried in the woods in what is called Moody Cemetery. There are only three marked graves with other gravesites visible, but no markers. To find this grave, she was assisted with information from Bobby Mitchell of the Marshall County Genealogy Society, as well as local hunters. It was an exciting find!
Jeanette and Emily Stone and I also attended part of the New Albany Home and Garden Show on Saturday. There were many interesting speakers; however, we only had time to be participants in two of the sessions. Along with the many speakers, there were numerous arts and crafts vendors from around the state, as well as plenty of food. This is a very worthwhile program held each year hosted by the Union County Master Gardeners. They, along with the Union County Extension Service, are to be greatly commended for this wonderful program.
Several people have called to say how much they are enjoying the redbud and cherry trees along Highway 78 from Tupelo to and around Byhalia this year. This was a project by former Northern Highway Commissioner Zack Stewart, following the completion of the ribbon-cutting on the last segment opening the highway from the Alabama state line to the Tennessee state line several years ago. In June 1996 his dream of having a redbud trail along Highway 78 came true with the planting of native wild redbud trees, along with flowering cherry and dogwood trees, along a span of 118 miles on both sides of Highway 78.
Reports from the Woman's Conference held at First Baptist Church, Potts Camp, on Saturday said that Rita Sweatt's program on "Woman at the Well" was one of the best. For the luncheon, tables were beautifully decorated by the WMU ladies.
Yvonne Ingram Burns of Byhalia will be guest speaker at the April 26 meeting of the Marshall County Genealogical Society. Held at the Marshall County Library in Holly Springs, the meeting will start at 10:30 a.m.
Yearbooks are on sale at Potts Camp School through April 11. They are being sold for $40, cash only.
Prayer list: Gayle Ash, Tom and Shirley Bready, Fran Childers, Madeline Clifton, Steve Culver, Coy DeBerry, Kenny Dickerson, Jody Edwards, Talmadge and Marie Edwards, Taylor and Tucker Goode, Pastor of Open Door Baptist Church Bro. Helmic, Inez Jarrett, Doyle and Linda Jones, Terri Kitchens, Troy and Lucille Leopard, Elizabeth Morris, Wade Murphy, Junior Overall, Gladys Rhynes, Larry Robbins, David Rooker, Faye and Pam Sparks, Billy Joe Tomlinson, Gloria Vaughn, James and Della Rose Williams.
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Pastor W. James Lyons, the Mull family and members of Greenfield Presbyterian Church thank all for supporting the benefit program for Kelvin Mull on April 5.
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The suspense continues…
All eyes are on Senator Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican from Maine, who has not yet decided on how she will vote on financial regulatory reform.
Snowe's could be the crucial 60th vote after Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown said on Monday that he will support the bill.
On Saturday Snowe said she hadn't decided and that the most important thing was "to get it right." Her view had not changed so far today, a staffer tells me.
Republican Senator Judd Gregg told CNBC TV that he expected Democrats to win enough support to pass a broad financial regulation bill.
Democrats are closing in on that magic 60 votes needed in the Senate to clear a procedural hurdle after Brown said: "While it isn't perfect, I expect to support the bill when it comes up for a vote."


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This dessert tastes like a cross between a scone and the funnel cake that they sell at carnivals. It's a great recipe for kids to experiment in the kitchen, let them help pick the add-ons! For the grownups in your house it makes a perfect treat alongside coffee or tea.
Dish Type: Dairy- Dessert
Prep time: 15 minutes
Bake Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour (plus 2 hours+ to set)
Serves: 12
Nutrition Info (per serving): 248 cals, 6g fat, 2.5g sat fat, 39g carbs, 1g fiber, 3g protein, 94 mg sodium
Apple Crisp
There's always room for dessert….Even when you're stuffed on Thanksgiving. Let this apple crisp be your go to, to compliment your favorite fall meals (and if you still have time, make it today!). The crunchy cinnamon crumble balances the soft-sweet apple perfectly. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
Dish Type: Parve- Dessert
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Bake Time: 40-45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Pumpkin Pie
Get into the holiday spirit this Thanksgiving and make this pumpkin pie, it's less than 200 calories and it truly is as easy-as-pie! I am usually hesitant to use canned products but the pumpkin pie filling is organic and I could pronounce everything on the ingredients list. I worked off of the recipe on the back of the can, but swapped out the condensed milk for coconut creamer and added a dash of cinnamon for some extra spice.
It goes nicely with non dairy whipped cream or soy vanilla ice cream!
Dish Type: Parve- Dessert
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 55 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Serves: 10
Nutrition Info (per serving): 172 cals, 6g fat, 27g carb, 1g fiber, 3g protein, 102mg sodium
Ice Cream Pie
If you are a fan of ice cream cake (and who isn't?) you will LOVE ice cream pie! My friend Becky made it at a party she hosted and it was a huge hit, now it's in regular rotation in my house. I play around with different flavors of ice cream and topping each time, and so can you!
It is a fun way to get kids involved in the kitchen or to bring out the kid in you. Get creative and have fun with it!
Dish Type: Parve- Dessert
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 12
Nutrition Info (per serving): 260 cals, 13g fat, 5g sat fat, 34g carb, 4g fiber, 2g protein, 132mg sodium
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Beyonce been drinking watermelon? ?
I don't get that part of the song
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Executing Learning Objects, Resurrecting Sharing and Reuse
By sleslie on June 8, 2005
http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/LO_gunshots/ lo_gunshots.html I was fortunate to instigate a workshop last week as part of the BC Educational Technology Users Group spring workshops in Merritt, B.C. The workshop was on "Practical Tips for Reusability and Interoperability." In keeping with themes I laid out earlier on this weblog, I began the session with a formal execution of [...]
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FLOSSE Posse – Is the "Learning Objects" King Naked?
By sleslie on May 20, 2005
http://flosse.dicole.org/?item= learning-objects-is-the-king-naked <rant> Over on on the Flosse Posse weblog, Teemu Leinonen has posted a bit of a rant on the term "learning object." I'm glad someone stepped up and said it. I agree, let's kill off the word "learning object" and while we are at it, let's throw "learning object repository" on the funeral [...]
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Developing a university course for on-line delivery based on learning objects: From ideals to compromises
By sleslie on July 14, 2004
http://www.athabascau.ca/schoolnetProject04/ documents/LOB_Final_DraftWilhelm-Wilde3.pdf I've been searching for this paper without being sure it existed – "Two course developers … investigated and described from their personal points of view the complex and immediate challenges they faced as they designed an online university course based on learning objects." Somewhat disappointingly, they ultimately "acquired a 'ready-made' commercial website featuring [...]
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Reusable Learning site from NSDL/Eduworks
By sleslie on June 9, 2004
http://www.reusablelearning.org/index.asp?id=26 Based on a reference in a recent intro to learning objects I went back to a site I thought I new, but instead found this newly developed resource that the Eduworks folks produced for the NSDL. It is really worth spending some time on, for both newbies and old hands alike. The section on [...]
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Training and Resources for Assembling Interactive Learning Systems
By sleslie on June 8, 2004
http://www.trails-project.org/ This NSF-funded project in the States just makes so much sense – have the univeristy students currently studying to be educational designers and developers work on actual learning content for the K-12 system. As the site says, "Through these courses TRAILS intends to have three major effects: to better prepare tomorrow's designers of educational [...]
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Finding Learning Objects – Walking the Talk
By sleslie on May 6, 2004
Can our intrepid search find a learning object in time to figure out how to calculate 'Z-scores'? Tune in and find out!
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CMU LSAL Paper on "LO-Tec" Tools (and Toys) for Creating Learning Objects
By sleslie on April 22, 2004
http://www.lsal.cmu.edu/lsal/expertise/ papers/notes/lotec05052003/lotec05052003.html This paper, from Dan Rehak and others at the renowned Learning Systems Architecture Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University (which now has a new RSS feed), asks how authors actually create learning objects, and whether the current tools are supporting these actual processes or instead getting in the way. To investigate this they take [...]
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Professional Development Model & Resource Re-Use Scenarios from Flexible E-Content Project
By sleslie on March 19, 2004
http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/maclachlan/ projectdiffusionintro.htm For people either building new repository software or even figuring out what they need in implementing existing software, this might be of interest. Not quite a set of use cases, but maybe close – a set of scenarios which "attempt … to map the process that an educator might walk through to implement [...]
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A Short Course on Structured Course Development, Learning Objects, and E-Learning Standards
By sleslie on February 26, 2004
http://careo.prn.bc.ca/losc/losccourse.html From Gerry Paille and his team (a partnership of BC School District #60, Open School BC and the Open Learning Agency/BC Open Univeristy to develop a 'CANCORE-compliant' resource network that will house materials from some of their older resource collections) comes this useful 3 module course on "using a structured language such as Standard [...]
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MERLOT's Development Process Documents and other background tech information
By sleslie on December 19, 2003
http://conference.merlot.org/projects/technology/ I don't know if I could tell you exactly *why* MERLOT published all of this – possibly for the greater public good or possibly to maintain a fairly high degree of transparency and formality given so many stakeholders in their development process. In any case, they have shared the policies shaping their development framework [...]
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Early on Wednesday news surfaced that the New England Patriots had signed Pittsburgh Steelers restricted free agent wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders to an offer sheet. While the Patriots could use some nifty language in the offer to make it difficult for the Steelers to match, Pittsburgh is expected to match the offer and keep Sanders suited up in the black and gold.
Per ESPN's Ed Werder:
Expect Steelers to match Patriots offer sheet and retain WR Emmanual Sanders. He's vital after loss of Mike Wallace and offer easy to match
— Ed Werder (@Edwerderespn) April 10, 2013
When the Steelers lost Mike Wallace in free agency, they couldn't afford to lose Sanders as well. The team is already lacking offensive playmakers, so keeping Sanders is key to their success in 2013.
Last season, Sanders caught 44 passes for 626 yards and one TD, but he is expected to take on a much bigger role.
Pittsburgh has until Monday to match the offer, but it looks like they will be doing everything in their power to make sure Sanders doesn't leave town.
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