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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #315 on: May 31, 2006, 09:12:40 AM »
uhm... even if you don't count comic books or audio books, there are over 5 dozen book reviews in the archives.

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« Reply #316 on: May 31, 2006, 11:15:54 AM »
Hm. Couldn't find them. Can you point me in the right direction?

Edit: Sheesh. I found them. Sorry, your navigation wasn't clear enough to me, I guess.
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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #317 on: May 31, 2006, 11:35:07 AM »
if you go to the book section (or any section) there's a link at the top-right for "articles" and one for "reviews"

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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #318 on: June 01, 2006, 03:15:05 AM »
"A Geek Girl's Guide to Character Conflict" is in.  

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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #319 on: June 02, 2006, 01:57:21 AM »
Nerdery is in...somewhere.
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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #320 on: June 02, 2006, 07:15:34 PM »
So, um, I was going to do a different one for next Friday, but since the last one didn't go up yesterday, is that still possible?  It might be weird to do two in one week.
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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #321 on: June 05, 2006, 09:05:54 AM »
I was a bit lazy last week. It was a hard week for me on other fronts.
Normally I'd say let's just do them on Friday. However, since we've been shy on articles, and *if* I remember to write my column we're still not going to have enough to fill this week yet, I say go ahead and write another, and we'll just do two of yours this week.

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« Reply #322 on: June 05, 2006, 09:18:06 PM »
Okay.  Will do.
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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #323 on: June 06, 2006, 03:02:47 PM »
So I was wondering if anyone was reviewing The Omen?
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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #324 on: June 06, 2006, 03:28:50 PM »
That would be Skar's department, but I have a feeling they already would have if they were dead set on doing it themselves.

I'd say write something up and Skar will contact you about it if needs be.
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« Reply #325 on: June 06, 2006, 03:55:08 PM »
ok will do
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« Reply #326 on: June 06, 2006, 04:14:01 PM »
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That would be Skar's department, but I have a feeling they already would have if they were dead set on doing it themselves.

I'd say write something up and Skar will contact you about it if needs be.


Correct.  We stand ready to accept your submission.   :D
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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #327 on: June 06, 2006, 05:03:27 PM »
ok now, next question... how would I submit it...
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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #328 on: June 06, 2006, 05:06:21 PM »
ok, before I have an anyeurism I'm going to bring this up.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932442529/theofficitime-20
^-- proper format for an amazon link.

I never want to see anything like this one again (which is what a lot of you have been doing lately:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=theofficitime-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F1588466000%2Fqid%3D1149189580%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155

Note that in the first, nice one, there is only one thing you *ever* need to change. The 10 digit code. Soemtimes this code will have letters in it. Don't let it throw you off. This code is listed in every product description on Amazon as an ASIN number. If you can't find it in the text, however (thought it *will* be there, I promise) you can find it in the url. The beginning of every normal URL on amazon you find by browsing will look like this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932442529

The end part is the 10 digit code. there will be a million characters of other stuff after that, but none of it is relevant and it just makes my eyes swim when trying to edit an article. Sometimes the URL won't be easy to read like that, however, like in the second url above (the ASIN for that link is 1588466000, incidentally, which is in the url, just not in an easy to find place.

Fell or Tage, this would be *really* nice information to have on the "submit an article" page. It may sound picky, but this is something that would *really* help me look over articles faster.

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Re: Yet Another Call For Articles
« Reply #329 on: June 06, 2006, 05:09:36 PM »
caiticlu, either click this link: http://www.timewastersguide.com/edit.php?page=articles

or go to the main page and click on the "submit an article" link on the left side under the departments, the long code is the stuff Amazon generates for you.