Engine Punk

It seems I was a little premature in writing off blogging as a novelty. Blogworld Expo in the states examined, among other things, how blogging can be made more profitable. One way of doing it is to have affiliate links so that any on-line purchases resulting in a sale from following a link from your site will earn you money. It’s blogging’s ability to share that’s being exploited and delegates were keen to emphasise the value of making lots of small connections that add up world wide. I am not sure this would be appropriate for my blogs. I think it would compromise my freedom to express myself freely if I had to get in a brief word from my sponsor. I have affiliate links with Amazon already on my website but only for my own books. This makes sense for the Anarchadia blog and I could expand it to include books I’ve enjoyed or artists that have inspired me. And the Engine Punk blog could offer links to sites selling examples of the tasteful music I enthuse about. But the whol...

As found it looked a little forlorn but compare with the "after" picture below. Photo Tony Suckling It seems that just by writing about something I really stir things up. If you follow my Anarchadia book blog you'll know that real life is starting to follow the fictional world of The Horsepower Whisperer and The Wormton Lamb and probably rejoiced to hear that - from now on - all my books will feature brilliantly sunny weather. Well, now I'm stirring things up with Vintage Things. I blog about them and more come out of the wood work. If ever I fit ICE to my Llama I'll need speakers that big. Photo Tony Suckling This Siva Llama belongs to a doctor who has owned the car from new. He’s commissioned Tony Suckling in Kent to get the car going again and, through the wonders of the interweb, Tony found me to ask a few questions about Siva Llamas. It’s a 1975 car so a few months younger than mine and it looks like it’s the same colour. Mine’s been resprayed but...