More blogs, more email, more offers

I told you it would be like the old email list.

An email from former Beacon graphic artist John Backderf (aka Derf):

Hey! I've been at it for longer than ANY of you guys! I started mine in 1998, while I still worked at the Beacon.

http://www.derfcity.com/blahblahblah.html

derr’s blog is part of his website dercity.com (blahblahblah.html)



For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts

If you have been laid off, you can get a free blog spot on typepad. Otherwise you pay. Clck on the link below to see a New York Times story on the offer sent to us by Ken Krause.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/technology/internet/24apart.html

The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 to 30 journalists who are accepted will receive professional tech support, placement on the company’s blog aggregation site, Blogs.com, and automatic enrollment in the company’s advertising revenue-sharing program.

Typepad home is at http://www.typepad.com/