How to FTP
FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol” and is the easiest way to upload files to a site on the Internet, especially if you want to send more than one file. You can think of...
Monthly Archive: May 2008
Write a Story on Twitter! A Very VERY Short Story Writing Contest
Copyblogger is hosting a unique contest: tell a story in exactly 140 characters on Twitter. The prize: a 4GB iPod Nano for the best entry! If you’re not familiar with Twitter, here’s the deal:...
Is it Worthwhile to Post on Sundays?
Sunday is a traffic black hole here at The Writer’s Technology Companion. Generally I get about 1/4 to 1/5 the traffic of a typical day on Sundays. The “received wisdom” about blogging is that...
Software for Writers: Liquid Story Binder XE
Liquid Story Binder XE is one of the few pieces of for-pay software for writers that I think is worth its salt. Mac users have their Scrivenir, which is beautiful and seems perfect for...
Free e-Book on Writing for Helium
Bob Younce of The Writing Journey has released an e-book detailing how to make money writing for Helium. The Helium Report offers advice on how best to use Helium’s system to make a strong...
Spread the Link Love: Link to Other Blogs to Promote Your Own
One of the best ways you can promote your website is to link to other sites. Doesn’t make sense on the face of it, does it? How can sending people away from your site...
Link: Random Name Generator "Unled"
Need names for your novel’s cast of thousands? Unled has you covered. Visit the page and you’re presented with 4 random names drawn from, as I understand it, census data (or maybe phonebooks, or...
My Article in ByLine Magazine
I got a pleasant surprise yesterday — a big fat envelope from ByLine Magazine containing a check and a couple of copies of the April 2008 issue with an article by me featured on...
How to Create PDFs from Any Document
PDF, the Portable Document Format, is a standard created by Adobe for circulating formatted documents over the web. Using Acrobat Reader or some other PDF reader (I like Foxit Reader, which opens much faster...
Link: Social|Median, a New Social Network
I’m playing around with Social|Median, an as-yet-not-public social network that allows you to create and administer topic channels. Like other social networks such as Digg or Reddit, Social|Median lets you vote stories up and...
