1. Most of us pay for hosting our domains in which to blog on - - however, under what circumstances would you shell out hard earned cash so that you can use the blogging platform (i.e. your blogging application). Considering Movable Type’s recent license fees - - would you? If yes, why - - If no, why not?

Yes, if I didn’t have to use PayPal to donate, left them after Kevin’s fiasco.

2. RE: Linkage - - I’ve seen many a trick to increase traffic and ratings in certain ecosystem offerings. For example - a few I’ve seen have one or two domains as a mirror to their main one and register all domains with TTLB - - so every post that you make is mirrored on the ’secondary domain’ - and each post is linked to the ‘primary domain’ which is recorded by the ecosystem as an inbound link….which could, for examle, bring your inbound links from 100 to 400 - depending. Do you have methods you use to ‘trick’ the ecosystem to skew your results to give you a higher rating? Care to share them? What tricks do you use?

I blog for Bush, my turn to do the Carnival of the Bush Bloggers too, and do the Wictory Wednesday post thing every Wednesday. After the election, I expect my ranking to plummet like a rock heh. I did some other stuff like promoting Spirit of America. Michele still owes me a dedication post. She’s falling down on the job here. I occasionally do a meme and remember to enter a Carnival, most regularly Carnival of the Cat Bloggers. That helps a bit.

3. RE: Templates - - show off some of your extra add-ons you’ve been working on with your templates. What’cha been up to, huh? huh?

All I’ve done lately is redo the index.php to be button free, oh, and test out the new Blogger templates. I am underwhelmed. I’ll be coming up with something spiffy eventually.

4. RE: Other blogs - - Show us some of the newer blogs you’ve linked to recently, in the past week, or so. We all like seeing new blogs and fresh material. Who are they - and why’d ya link ‘em?

Now if I could remember that, got way too many so just check out my switchers post as those that aren’t already on the blogroll will be added.