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?



I don't know that I would pay. I'd search for a new program and free host.



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?



To my knowledge, no one links to my sites, which is just fine with me. Very few family members and friends know about my blogs. I maintain them because it's fun and I enjoy it. Whether or not I can be found via a search engine is a good question. I haven't tried and it's not a goal.



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?



I'm constantly tweaking here and there, though, many changes are not perceptble. They're more 'behind the scenes'. I've been thinking about personalizing it more with a Books Reading, New Music or Geek Purchases section.



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? I don't link others blogs; I only link to meme sites.