Joel Burslem, who is not only another Wordpress user but smart enough to use one of Root’s templates as well, has got a project going in his capacity as publisher and editor-in-chief of the Ulsan Pear, an English-language monthly printed in, strangely enough, Ulsan. Anyway, here’s the deal:
Are you a writer currently living in Korea? Or a writer that has visited Korea? I need your help for the next issue of the Ulsan Pear!
We??re looking to publish travel stories from around the Korean peninsula for our November travel issue.
Guidelines:
Must be a destination within the Korean peninsula (or surrounding islands).
Should be an interesting, unique angle on an off-the-beaten track location (we??ve all been to Seoul??).
500 words maximum - so keep your writing tight!
Pictures are a must (high-resolution JPGs or TIFs please)Deadline for submissions is October 24th.
Your reward:
Seeing your words in print in one of the fastest growing Korean ex-pat publications.
A small token of appreciation from one of our sponsors (TBA)Email your manuscripts to info@ulsanpear.biz and visit our web site at www.ulsanpear.biz to see examples of our past issues.
Sounds interesting.
Oh, and speaking of Joels and Wordpress, if you haven’t checked out About Joel’s conversion to Wordpress, do so now — it’s lookin’ real good.
And while Lee over at Tokyo Times didn’t go Wordpress after bailing on Typepad, his new MT 3.11 blog is looking rather nice as well.
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Thanks for the kind words.
After making my my mind up to definitely make the move away from Typepad, it was then whether to use Wordpress or Movable Type. After a fair bit of research I still couldn’t make up my mind, but then I came across a book about setting up a Movable Type blog. As it was written with people like me in mind (i.e. a novice), it swung things in the MT direction.
It was still something of a struggle though, but I’m glad I did it. It’s a bit hard to explain, but moving away from Typepad and getting my own server space makes the site feel much more my own. And you were right about getting to grips with the code and stuff being interesting. As frustrating as it was at times, I did get a strange kind of geeky pleasure out of it. And a great sense of satisfaction when it came out looking something like I wanted.
That said, I don’t think the design will be changing for quite some time!