I would love something from you on Victorian queerness, and I'm sure a bit of scratching around will turn up something fantastic. Promotion would be great too - I wouldn't start until after the blog goes live in the first week of June, but after then, sell the historical heck out of it!
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Which I interpret to mean: we remain quite free to publish our content and sell it if we see fit, but so are they. WHich could make it difficult to get any publisher interested. Hmm. The tradeoff is that using Blogger or Wordpress (which has the same ToS, as far as I'm
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Do the Wordpress ToS differ if you set up a blog on the Wordpress site, as opposed to your own domain name? That might be worth looking into.
Also, I suspect this idea is cool enough that not being on Blogger or Wordpress won't be much of a problem. In fact, I'd say having your own website would be much better in the long run - it looks more professional than just a blog on Blogger/Wordpress. It doesn't have to be built from scratch - there are plenty of sites/applications that let you build a website/blog very easily with a WYSIWYG interface. One that I like is Weebly. It lets you post content either on a Weebly site, or to your own domain name; it's super-easy to use, and their ToS are fairly friendly. The relevant section is:
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It is almost absurdly simple to set up your own blog on a fresh domain, if there's any worry about copyright issues. Downside: there is, inevitably, a fee, although a few hosting companies (e.g. NearlyFreeSpeech) are quite cheap.
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Which I interpret to mean: we remain quite free to publish our content and sell it if we see fit, but so are they. WHich could make it difficult to get any publisher interested. Hmm. The tradeoff is that using Blogger or Wordpress (which has the same ToS, as far as I'm ( ... )
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Also, I suspect this idea is cool enough that not being on Blogger or Wordpress won't be much of a problem. In fact, I'd say having your own website would be much better in the long run - it looks more professional than just a blog on Blogger/Wordpress. It doesn't have to be built from scratch - there are plenty of sites/applications that let you build a website/blog very easily with a WYSIWYG interface. One that I like is Weebly. It lets you post content either on a Weebly site, or to your own domain name; it's super-easy to use, and their ToS are fairly friendly. The relevant section is:
Weebly does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Weebly web site. By submitting Content to Weebly for inclusion on your Weebly web site, you grant Weebly a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of ( ... )
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