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WT Update: Selection of Chris Pommier’s freelance clips online

April 19th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Nonfiction, Writing by Chris Pommier

I wrote for Lavender Magazine, a local gay/lesbian/queer focused print magazine in 2006-2007. However, in February 2007, they rolled out a new draconian contract for freelancers that would have forced me to give up all future rights to my work, and would have held me liable for future litigation against the magazine. I refused to sign it because of that, so they couldn’t give me any more work.

I really enjoyed working for them, and their wonderful editor at that time, Michael Moeglin. Though the magazine is rightfully critiqued as a glorified advertising pamphlet within the community, it does support good work, and some wonderful talent. Unfortunately, for some reason the publisher of Lavender has never archived the magazine’s content online. So, for about a year now, I’ve had physical clips sitting in my file drawer waiting to be released online to prospective editors and employers.

I finally made the time to scan, and place, those clips as pdfs on this blog. It took most of Saturday morning, but it was worth it.

A couple updates to Words & Tricks: Tweet Digest and Comment Love

March 28th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Admin by Chris Pommier

Source: FlickrIn the interest of centralizing my online activities, and encouraging more participation in the comments section of Words & Tricks, I’ve made a couple small tweaks to the site.

First Tweak: Tweeting

Though I haven’t been able to find the time to blog regularly lately, I have found that posting to Twitter is fast and easy. I can even do it from my cell phone. So, I’ve installed the Twitter Tools WordPress plugin in order to collect my tweets each day and automatically post them as a digest, or roundup, to this blog.

This is experimental, since I don’t want to spam you, or my own blog with annoying daily messages that have little substance. After a couple weeks, please give me your feedback as to whether this feature is worth keeping.

Second Tweak: Editable comments that keep track of you

I’ve tweaked the comments section using the WP AJAX Edit Comments WordPress plugin to allow readers to edit their comments after they submit them. Misspell something? No problem! Your comment is editable for a brief time.

Also, in order to encourage commenting, please note that I installed the CommentLuv WordPress plugin. If you have a blog and enter its address in the URL field, CommentLuv will look for your RSS feed there, and pull the title of your most recent post to link to you comment.

Enjoy!