As promised, I’m following up on last week’s new installment, Freelance Friday, to help you stalk me light. Basically, I’m highlighting more interesting, longer freelance posts, and some others, in these posts, which should help anyone interested to keep up to date.

• Are You Designing for the Smaller Screen?
  Talking about designing for smaller screens on Devlounge
• BlogDay 2008: A Short Interview with Nir Ofir
  An interview with BlogDay founder Nir Ofir, on The Blog Herald
• Talking Niche Hosting With the WarhammerBlogs.com Founders
  Interview on The Blog Herald
• Lijit CEO Todd Vernon on Securing $7.1M, and the Search Ad Network
  Interview on Lijit VC money and ad network on The Blog Herald
• Open Salon: Blog for Tips
  About Salon’s new blog network, on The Blog Herald
• Amazon to Recommend Stuff on Your Site (Products Too)
  News post on Amazon Associates related posts/pages widget

I’ve had a rough week with lots of stuff going on behind the scenes. That’ll probably be pretty obvious next week, I think, depending on when various gigs go online.

I’d also like to apologize to my Twitter followers for not getting the Asus Eee PC 900 post up yet. I’ve played a lot with it, and have lots to tell/brag/bitch about, but it has just been too much to wrap it up. The planned fiction update this weekend will probably not appear either, I’m traveling and unless I find decent wifi I won’t be able to wrap it up accordingly.

I used to love newsletters, and one of the first serious online publications I had was an e-mail newsletter. Through the years, I’ve used newsletters to promote stories, sell stuff occasionally, but more importantly to get that direct connection to actual people. So let’s take a look at a recent Amazon newsletter I received, and see how it stands, shall we? More

Amazon Kindle is the latest attempt by the print industry to get us interested in e-readers. At $399, it’s pretty affordable, although at first glance it looks very lowtech.

And you know what, I’m somewhat interested in Kindle.

However, the e-reader have a few problems that really needs to be addressed before Kindle can be a success. More