Where Have All The Free Bookmarks Gone?

Earlier this year I became a member of the She Told Me website. If you are not familiar with She Told Me allow me to enlighten you. The whole idea revolves around 'scoops.' If a member found an interesting article or website they could then write a brief discrispton and publish on She Told Me along with a link to the site. The thing I liked about it was that I could use She Told Me to generate links into my articles.

Sadly things seem to have changed somewhat since I last logged into the site, several months ago. I logged in today and discovered that I am now only allowed to post comments and vote on other people's scoops because I am a 'free member.' If I want to publish a scoop of my own it will cost me $5 a month, or $12 for the year.

What a pity! I like the site, but I have no intention of paying to use it. What can I say? I much prefer to make money online than to spend it, and that whole 'You've got to speculate to accumulate' thing does not appeal to me in the slightest.

I used to use Xomba.com in a similar fashion and considered it to be a great resource: Publish a bookmark and generates an inbound link for your article. Many people are still doing this, but I got banned from the site for 'breaking their rules.' Actually it was more a case of they changed the rules. That's just how the cookie crumbles sometimes though.

Arachnids with Attitude: The British Spiders That Bite

There are around 640 species of spider living in the UK. The vast majority of them are content to just get on with their thing and leave us poor old human beings alone. A few species have, however, been known to bite. The chief culprit is the false widow spider and a dozen of it's cousins have, at times, followed its bad example: Do British Spiders Bite?

Write Articles, Get Paid! and Get Paid 50% More for Doing So

It has been quite a while since I logged into my account at Write Articles, Get Paid! but I have just paid them a visit and I see that they have upped their rates by 50% and are now paying $1.50 for each article instead of $1. They are also accepting 400 word articles as well as 700 word articles.

I must admit that these days I find it hard to motivate myself to write for so little money, so I probably will not be writing anything for them any time soon. $1.50 is better than a slap in the face with a wet fish though, and I know that many people would be glad of it, so if you want to give them a try why not pay them a visit.

I also noticed that they now offer payment through MoneyBookers as well as PayPal.

Write Articles, Get Paid! are not a scam site, by the way. They pay their writers on a weekly basis and I know that from experience because when I first discovered the site I wrote several articles for them and was paid for every one of them. If you are thinking of giving them a try, but would like to know a little more about them before you do so check out my review of the site.