The Musings of Brian Groce

Utter Oddcast #34 (a.k.a. October Oddness 2007 #4) is now available. Check it out for another dose of Halloween related oddness.

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Utter Oddcast #33 is now available.

On this episode of Utter Oddcast we discuss a hospital who gave a man a drip-feed of vodka, stealing the Bible, the free ‘Naked Lunch’ controversy, a dog that saved a family from a fire started by a cat, chicken wing competitive eating, a Wal-Mart wedding and a man who tried to pass a million dollar bill.

Yesterday I ran across a new “pay wiki” site, OneBuckWiki, who’s offering pages for $1 (until 1000 pages are sold, then it goes up to $10).

I’m currently undecided about how useful/helpful something like this is (wikis in general, not just this one), but I do see the potential (as long as it is policed AND people still buy pages after it goes beyond $1). And for a one time $1 payment I guess there’s not really a whole lot to lose. If you get any site traffic from it, it’s well worth the investment, right?

So, I went ahead and purchased a few pages to help promote Watershed Studio and Surge Bucket Media. (So far I’ve only had a chance to add content for the weird news page which promotes Squirrel Dish, Utter Oddcast and Utter Oddness…with a nod to Gene & Bryan over at Hometown Tales.)

I think that the one thing that I really like about this site is that fact that they’re using a theme/template that looks more like a normal web page or blog post. A big thing that really turned me off about Wiki’s in the past was the default layout found in every one that I came across just didn’t light any fires for me (along with a handful of functionality issues).

Anyway, we’ll see how it goes. And now the wheels are turning on how Wiki’s might be useful for a few of my own sites and I think I’m going to take a look at the software again (whenever I can manage to find some “free time”).

Utter Oddcast #32 (a.k.a. October Oddness 2007 #3) is now available.  Check it out for another dose of Halloween related oddness.