Monday, June 13, 2005

Still Alive

Many people have been wondering where I have been. I am still alive and working. I am reorganizing many parts of bipolarcentral.com to make it even better and allow me more free time to work on many projects. I will be posting more details soon. Stay tuned.

Friday, June 03, 2005

Important Notice About Bipolar News

I just got this message from someone and I am going to write a response:

Why are you now charging people for access to articles, it does not make sense to me, are you trying to help people or to make money for yourself?

--Caren


This person is referring to my articles at bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews

Specifically, I just sent out the current news which is at
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews94/

On these pages it says:

Note: One or more of the following articles may require a subscription to view the entire article. We cannot post articles that require a subscription. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

What this means is the are some companies that post articles but they require a subscription. You aren't going to be paying me you are going to be paying them. Much like forbes.com charges for some articles.

When I first started doing this, I never even post articles that would require a subscription but a couple hundred people said they like the option of seeing a preview of an article and then having the ability to pay if they want to. Pay the company offering the article not me that is.

So I hope this clears things up.

Some ask me why I even respond to these emails and ask if I get annoyed. I don't really know why I take the time to respond to stuff that is really obvious and also that is indeed annoying.

I am not sure why a very small percentage of people like to complain about the costs of things. If there is a good article, and you want it, pay the subscription price and read it.

Good information is not a waste of money.