*Ø* Blogmanac | Exciting news from the Wilson's Almanac freezine
Very soon, I'll be making big changes to
the illustrated Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine.
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The Almy is about to change. I will still send out the ezine every day of the year, and more than 2,550 daily readers worldwide will still get what they get today: many reasons and many ways to celebrate each day. That's congruent with the Almanac philosophy that "every day is a red-letter day", and our motto, "Carpe diem!" – Seize the day!
The difference will be that the ezine will contain headlines of the pick of the day's stories, with a link to a webpage at our exciting new project, the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days.
There will be much more info on that day's page than I could ever fit into an ezine, so Almaniacs will get a much better deal. The ezine will be lighter and faster to download, so there's another reason to take this path. The third big gain for our readers will be that the online resource will be permanent, which is better than the fleeting nature of an ezine.
The big benefit to your almanackist will be that it takes only as much time to make a webpage as it does to make an illustrated ezine, and I'll have the resource last online rather than vaporize each day. I'll do half as much work for twice the outcome, so I can work on two books I'm writing. One book is Almanac-style material, and the other is more philosophical and activism-oriented.
What will Wilson's Almanac Book of Days come to look like?
At the Book of Days, over time, there will be 366 pages – maybe the biggest database of On This Day material of this kind. If you want to get an idea what it will be like, it'll be exactly like this page already at the Scriptorium, only different, crossed with this and a touch of this, and a little bit like this. It'll definitely have a touch of this with a dash of this, stirred with a dash of this, seasoned with a touch of this ... and of course, you can always expect the Almy to have a flavour of this , this and this.
Women will be pleased that, like the old Almanac, there will still be plenty of things like this.
Like my favourite Daily Bleed, the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days will have a wealth of progressive data, with an emphasis on peace and activism. We will also have the emphasis on how each day is celebrated by the world's peoples – just like in the current Almy. And each year, it will keep getting bigger and better. I have a database of more than 2 million words complied over more than a quarter of a century, and I'll love sharing it each day.
Get ready for our unique Wilson's Almanac Book of Days: folklore, celebrations, peace, environment, activism, ideas, alternatives, Nature-oriented spirituality, historical oddities and much, much more. If you are not already a subscriber, why not take out a sub in our right-hand column of the Blogmanac, and I promise you'll get a cornucopia of info and entertainment each day for free.
Many thanks to Blogmanac team member Nora Ui Dhuibhir of Ireland who has made this possible. Because I'm a compulsive and incorrigible scrivener who keeps churning out pages, my wilsonsalmanac.com site is crammed to overflowing and the ISP is screaming for $400 back payments (help welcome!). Nora, always a practical supporter of our project, has made available 50 megabytes of her bluefudge domain available for hosting images. Thanks, pardner!
Wilson's Almanac Book of Days
Very soon, I'll be making big changes to
the illustrated Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine.
The Almy is about to change. I will still send out the ezine every day of the year, and more than 2,550 daily readers worldwide will still get what they get today: many reasons and many ways to celebrate each day. That's congruent with the Almanac philosophy that "every day is a red-letter day", and our motto, "Carpe diem!" – Seize the day!
The difference will be that the ezine will contain headlines of the pick of the day's stories, with a link to a webpage at our exciting new project, the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days.
There will be much more info on that day's page than I could ever fit into an ezine, so Almaniacs will get a much better deal. The ezine will be lighter and faster to download, so there's another reason to take this path. The third big gain for our readers will be that the online resource will be permanent, which is better than the fleeting nature of an ezine.
The big benefit to your almanackist will be that it takes only as much time to make a webpage as it does to make an illustrated ezine, and I'll have the resource last online rather than vaporize each day. I'll do half as much work for twice the outcome, so I can work on two books I'm writing. One book is Almanac-style material, and the other is more philosophical and activism-oriented.
What will Wilson's Almanac Book of Days come to look like?
At the Book of Days, over time, there will be 366 pages – maybe the biggest database of On This Day material of this kind. If you want to get an idea what it will be like, it'll be exactly like this page already at the Scriptorium, only different, crossed with this and a touch of this, and a little bit like this. It'll definitely have a touch of this with a dash of this, stirred with a dash of this, seasoned with a touch of this ... and of course, you can always expect the Almy to have a flavour of this , this and this.
Women will be pleased that, like the old Almanac, there will still be plenty of things like this.
Like my favourite Daily Bleed, the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days will have a wealth of progressive data, with an emphasis on peace and activism. We will also have the emphasis on how each day is celebrated by the world's peoples – just like in the current Almy. And each year, it will keep getting bigger and better. I have a database of more than 2 million words complied over more than a quarter of a century, and I'll love sharing it each day.
Get ready for our unique Wilson's Almanac Book of Days: folklore, celebrations, peace, environment, activism, ideas, alternatives, Nature-oriented spirituality, historical oddities and much, much more. If you are not already a subscriber, why not take out a sub in our right-hand column of the Blogmanac, and I promise you'll get a cornucopia of info and entertainment each day for free.
Many thanks to Blogmanac team member Nora Ui Dhuibhir of Ireland who has made this possible. Because I'm a compulsive and incorrigible scrivener who keeps churning out pages, my wilsonsalmanac.com site is crammed to overflowing and the ISP is screaming for $400 back payments (help welcome!). Nora, always a practical supporter of our project, has made available 50 megabytes of her bluefudge domain available for hosting images. Thanks, pardner!
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