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I just thought I would make a quick post on my latest site.

Recently, I have begun development on Free-Journal-Articles.com, a royalty-free content archive. It’s a great resource for article marketers, or anyone who is trying to drive traffic to their site. Since some of our articles get picked up by larger publications, authors can aquire more readers and exposure by including a homepage link in their articles.

Below is a copy of the press release announcing it’s launch. It explains alot of what we are about, and why we are better than most of the existing comopetition.
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Free-Journal-Articles.com Launches - Your Source for Quality Royalty-Free Articles

Ancaster, ON (PRWEB) August 1, 2007 — We would like to announce the official launch of http://www.free-journal-articles.com. We are your best source for quality royalty-free articles.

Free-Journal-Articles.com has much to offer over traditional article sites, both for publishers and for authors. We have studied the major article sites such as GoArticles and Ezinearticles, and decided on a feature set which addresses the shortcomings of these, and many other article directories.

Readability - A problem consistent to most article sites is a lack of readability. By placing heavy restrictions on formatting, and displaying articles in smaller font sizes, many article sites make their articles often difficult to read. This results in less read-throughs and pickups. In addition, this provides a less pleasurable experience for publishers who are choosing articles for their prospective sites.

Proper Seach Engine Optimization - Owners of many article directories do not practice proper SEO. This hurts the ranking of the articles submitted to them. This site is managed by a competent SEO. We have managed a variety of websites in the past, and know how to ensure that articles submitted to this site perform well in the SERPS.

Revenue Sharing - We practice revenue sharing. What this means is that users who have submitted 5 articles may submit their Adsense ID to Free-Journal-Articles to recieve 50% of the impressions their articles generate while on this site. This provides yet another income stream for our members!

Updated Technology - Free-Journal-Articles.com is running on a cutting-edge server, using advanced software to deliver the most positive user experience possible! Users who enjoy a site are more likely to return - and that’s what we all want, isn’t it?

Breaking the Mold - There are a few very popular software packages to run and manage article directories. While some of these packages are very good, because there are so many of them, they all start to look the same. Our site is different. We do not employ the traditional software packages. We want to make a lasting impression on visitors, so that they return, and continue to use articles from our database.

Free-Journal-Articles.com can offer you more than any other article site. We hope you will join us soon!

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At any rate, so far, so good. I have a group of talented writers submitting articles somewhat regularily. Some of the articles are quite well written:

• Barry Michaels - Radio is My Life!
• Children Don’t Outgrow Abuse
• Recipes for Dutch Oven Cooking
  

Others are not so good. I’ve even written some myself, either with my real name, or a pen name. Here’s some articles under my real name:

• Review of ‘The Zero’ by Jess Walter
• Promoting Yourself as a Content Writer

Anyways, that’s what I’ve been up to. Now to try to get more writers!

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I was in the #webmasterradio channel on irc.webmasterradio.fm today, when I read something that both made me laugh, and got me thinking a bit. TheChad, a fellow webmaster, and owner ot The Free Vault Directory said,

“WoW is why I after the passive income online. I don’t have time to work hard like the shoes and marcuses out there, I have an addiction to cater to”

with shoes and marcuses referring obviously to Shoemoney and Marcus Frind, two extremely successful webmasters/moneymakers.

Really, the motivation for many webmasters out their is that we are somewhat lazy. Maybe not lazy in terms of the fact that we don’t do anything, but in the fact that we want to have a stress-free, laid-back life, where we cand do what we want, when we want, and if it takes busting our asses to create websites which can provide the residual income we need to sustain that, well, that’s a worthy goal.

It’s an interesting concept, and one I know I fall into. Hence why I put all that effort into my own sites.

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So, today I learned about RJS for Rails… RJS, or Remote Javascript, is a method which allows you to write complex AJAX scripts using Ruby syntax etc. Using RJS templates, it is possible to create extensive effects.

Now Rails has for a long time naturally includes some built-in functionality for AJAX, via the PrototypeHelper and ScriptaculousHelper libraries. Unfortunately, these two helpers would only allow one element in the DOM to be updated in an AJAX operation. That did not suit for what I wanted to do. Luckily, since Rails 1.0, RJS has been including. In addition to providing a simpler way to write AJAX functionality into your project, it also allows you to modify as many parts of the DOM as you wish per AJAX operation.

Of course, there doesn’t seem to be any good tutorials concerning RJS on the Internet. After looking for a while, RyanB from the Rails Forum suggested purchasing RJS Templates for Rails from O’Reilly. This is a great book - it comes as a PDF, and is only 60 pages or so, but is jam-packed with information on RJS, with code examples, and everything.

Because of this, I have been able to start implementing some AJAX functionality on a project for my employer. The visual effects from script.aculo.us are pretty cool, but the real benefits come from the increase of useability for the end-user. No longer does a user have to wait for page reloads etc. everytime he changes a vaue on the page. Plus, it is simple to link the AJAX pieces into your database, yielding an extremely ‘live’ page.
So, the moral of the story is, if you utilize Rails together with AJAX in any way, look into RJS - it can and will save you tons of time and energy, while vastly improcing your site design and useability!

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Just recently, I reviewed Kfir Luzzatto’s new book The Odyssey Gene for one of my other projects. I run ‘The Science Fiction Review’ as a side project. I just review books, and post interesting articles I come across.

Anyways, If anyone is interested in reading the review, and critiqueing my reviewing style, well, I would appreciate the comments. So, without more boring talk on my part, please review my review!

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