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I found out about a cool t-shirt website called Spreadshirt from one of @gandalfar‘s tweets.

Like several other t-shirt stores, in addition to the pre-designed shirts available you have the option of designing your own.  You can upload a design of your own or design a shirt using the existing designs and text or just change the colors on an existing shirt.

Unlike any other t-shirt store that I’ve seen, Spreadshirt lets you create your own store containing your designs.  They make and ship the shirt, collect the money from the customer etc. and you get a commision.

My store is here.  I’ve created one shirt so far:

I’ve wanted a lion rampant shirt for a long time and couldn’t find one.  With Spreadshirt I was able to design the shirt I wanted and as a bonus I can make it available for other people to buy and make a little extra money.

Spreadshirt also gives you the ability to include your store in your website, but it uses iframes so I there are problems with cookies so I’m not using it.

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Now that November’s over I’m looking back at how posting every day for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) went.

There’s no two ways about it – posting every day is hard.  For a handful of days I (sort of) cheated by just posting a haiku based on one of Zemanta‘s default picture suggestions.  On the up side there were a lot of proper posts that wouldn’t have been written if I hadn’t been trying to post regularly.

Jure Cuhalev wrote recently that blog posts get the readership they deserve, and I think he’s right – the haiku get hardly any hits whereas the meatier posts get more hits and even some comments.

I usually run so short of topics that at most I managed to write posts one day in advance.  Jure apparently writes most of his week’s posts all at once on Sunday, but I don’t think I’d be able to do that.

On a purely avaricious note, in general it seems that more content = more (and better) hits = more ad conversion = more money.  Here is a graph of my Google AdSense earnings for October and November:

Google AdSense Earnings Oct-Nov 2008

Obviously I’m not blowing anyone’s doors off financially (it’s really just a way of keeping score) but the point is the difference between October (not blogging every day) and November (blogging every day) – pretty dramatic, I think.

In conclusion I will continue to try and post every day, but I’m not going to beat myself up if I miss a day.

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