CrimeSpace News - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T09:28:34Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/categories/537324:Category:26325/listForCategory?categoryId=537324%3ACategory%3A26325&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAnnual Call For Donations 2016tag:crimespace.ning.com,2016-07-21:537324:Topic:4163622016-07-21T10:53:18.487ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<p><span>Hey folks,</span><br></br><br></br><span>As you may be aware, Ning.com, the company who provides the servers and service for Crimespace to run on, charge an annual fee.</span><br></br><br></br><span>The fee is $USD 239.90, and last year I made a similar call for donations to meet that fee. And then I posted to let people know that the goal was met. Note that I don't do this for profit so as long as I get somewhere near the annual fee in donations I'm happy for people to have fun on Crimespace as they…</span></p>
<p><span>Hey folks,</span><br/><br/><span>As you may be aware, Ning.com, the company who provides the servers and service for Crimespace to run on, charge an annual fee.</span><br/><br/><span>The fee is $USD 239.90, and last year I made a similar call for donations to meet that fee. And then I posted to let people know that the goal was met. Note that I don't do this for profit so as long as I get somewhere near the annual fee in donations I'm happy for people to have fun on Crimespace as they please.</span><br/><br/><span>So please consider making a donation towards the running costs if you use and enjoy Crimespace. There's a donation box at the bottom of the front page. Any amount is welcome.</span><br/><br/><span>Thanks to everyone who has donated along the way, it's much appreciated.</span><br/><br/><span>Cheers,</span><br/><span>Daniel Hatadi aka Crimespace Creator</span></p> Donation Goal Achieved!tag:crimespace.ning.com,2015-08-31:537324:Topic:4095402015-08-31T02:46:21.380ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<p>Thanks to everyone for their kind contributions, the goal of $USD239 has been achieved.</p>
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<p>Back to your regular Crimespacing!</p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Daniel</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone for their kind contributions, the goal of $USD239 has been achieved.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Back to your regular Crimespacing!</p>
<p></p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Daniel</p> Annual Call For Donationstag:crimespace.ning.com,2015-08-18:537324:Topic:4092052015-08-18T00:51:46.987ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Hey folks,<br />
<br />
As you may be aware, Ning.com, the company who provides the servers and service for Crimespace to run on, charge an annual fee.<br />
<br />
The fee is $USD 239.90, and although I do receive donations at times, I'm well short of that target this year. Most years I've been a little short but I don't run this for profit so it's not usually a problem.<br />
<br />
So please consider making a donation towards the running costs if you use and enjoy Crimespace. There's a donation box at the bottom of the front…
Hey folks,<br />
<br />
As you may be aware, Ning.com, the company who provides the servers and service for Crimespace to run on, charge an annual fee.<br />
<br />
The fee is $USD 239.90, and although I do receive donations at times, I'm well short of that target this year. Most years I've been a little short but I don't run this for profit so it's not usually a problem.<br />
<br />
So please consider making a donation towards the running costs if you use and enjoy Crimespace. There's a donation box at the bottom of the front page. Any amount is welcome.<br />
<br />
Thanks to everyone who has donated along the way, it's much appreciated.<br />
<br />
Cheers,<br />
Daniel Hatadi aka Crimespace Creator CrimeSpace Theme Changestag:crimespace.ning.com,2011-02-14:537324:Topic:2715942011-02-14T23:50:10.581ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
I've had to upgrade CrimeSpace's theme to match the new software Ning is using, so expect a few tweaks over the next few days as I do my best to get it back to normal.
I've had to upgrade CrimeSpace's theme to match the new software Ning is using, so expect a few tweaks over the next few days as I do my best to get it back to normal. Ning Now Charging To Run CrimeSpacetag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-21:537324:Topic:2426892010-07-21T00:23:24.982ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
As you all may already know, <a href="http://www.ning.com/">Ning</a>, the company whose servers and software power CrimeSpace, has decided to start charging for the service. You can read the previous discussions on this <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/crimespace-news-ning-to-start">here</a> and <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/crimespace-news-update-on-ning/showLastReply">here</a>, but it all comes down to this: …<br></br><br></br>
As you all may already know, <a href="http://www.ning.com/">Ning</a>, the company whose servers and software power CrimeSpace, has decided to start charging for the service. You can read the previous discussions on this <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/crimespace-news-ning-to-start">here</a> and <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/crimespace-news-update-on-ning/showLastReply">here</a>, but it all comes down to this: <br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">CrimeSpace will continue to run on the Ning Network and I am happy to pay for the service.</span><br/><br/>In fact, I already have. Looking at the <a href="http://about.ning.com/plans/">plans available</a>, the only sensible option was the Ning Plus plan, which is $US199.95 a year. On this plan, I can see only two changes to the way the network runs:<br/><br/><ul>
<li>Users will no longer be able to upload / play music. I always liked this feature, but it would take a fair amount of server space so, fair enough.<br/></li>
<li>Video uploading is disabled, but embedding still works. I don't think any of us will even notice the difference here as we mostly embed YouTube clips.</li>
</ul>
<br/>Some of you have mentioned that you'd be happy to chip in to run the place and it was suggested that I set up a PayPal donation link. So I did.<br/><br/>If you look at the top of the screen, you will now see a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Donate</span> tab. Roughly speaking, I'd only probably need about 20 people to donate $5 each to break even. Any subsequent donations I'll hold on to for next year.<br/><br/>I'm going to run Google Ads over in the sidebar (previously, these were run by Ning), so I should make about $10 a month based on the times I experimented with running ads myself. Feel free to click on them when the mood hits you. That money will just come back to running CrimeSpace.<br/><br/>We had a great, free run for the last three years and I think it's fair enough to start paying for the service. Plenty of other forums with 2000+ members have to and I think Ning provides a pretty damned good service.<br/><br/>Hopefully you all agree!<br/><br/> CrimeSpace News: Update On Ning Chargestag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-05-13:537324:Topic:2349382010-05-13T23:35:26.564ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Some of you may be unaware that Ning, the company that owns the servers and software that power CrimeSpace, is soon to be charging for the service.<br></br><br></br>There are some 'teaser' prices from them recently announced here:<br></br><br></br><a href="http://about.ning.com/announcement/">http://about.ning.com/announcement/</a><br></br><br></br>For this network, $200 a year isn't bad. It includes the ability to run ads and I can
probably get half that amount from there. If it's $100 a year with a<br />
little PayPal…
Some of you may be unaware that Ning, the company that owns the servers and software that power CrimeSpace, is soon to be charging for the service.<br/><br/>There are some 'teaser' prices from them recently announced here:<br/><br/><a href="http://about.ning.com/announcement/">http://about.ning.com/announcement/</a><br/><br/>For this network, $200 a year isn't bad. It includes the ability to run ads and I can
probably get half that amount from there. If it's $100 a year with a<br />
little PayPal donation button we should be fine.<br/><br/>And we still don't have to worry about it for at least three more months. I'll keep you all up to date as the situation unvravels.<br/> CrimeSpace News: Ning to start charging for servicetag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-04-19:537324:Topic:2329082010-04-19T04:52:37.445ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Ning, the company that provides the servers and software that CrimeSpace runs on, is no longer going to be free. Since its launch and since CrimeSpace's launch, Ning has been an advertising supported service, but this is about to change.<br></br>
<br></br>From <a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-update-rolling-out-full">http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-update-rolling-out-full</a>:<br></br><br></br><p style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">As part of this change, we’ll be…</p>
Ning, the company that provides the servers and software that CrimeSpace runs on, is no longer going to be free. Since its launch and since CrimeSpace's launch, Ning has been an advertising supported service, but this is about to change.<br/>
<br/>From <a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-update-rolling-out-full">http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-update-rolling-out-full</a>:<br/><br/><p style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">As part of this change, we’ll be phasing out our free service. On May 4, 2010, we will share with you all of the details of our new
offering, including features and price points, through a series of blog posts, emails, and conference calls. We recognize that there are many active Ning Networks for teachers, small non-profits, and individuals and it's our goal to have a set of product and pricing options that will<br />
make sense for all of them. For Ning Creators using our free service who<br />
choose to move to another service, we will offer a migration path and time to make that change. We will still continue to allow free trials<br />
and test networks on the Ning Platform.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;"><br/></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">We look forward to talking to you further on May 4th.</p>
<br/>Seeing as we have no idea what the pricing scheme is, I won't be making any decisions until then. They do mention a transition plan so I expect that CrimeSpace will run as normal for the next few months at least.<br/><br/>Just to make it clear, members won't be paying to use CrimeSpace, whatever happens. And I don't plan for CrimeSpace to die a horrible digital death in a ditch somewhere, covered in rotting binary code, with computer techs discussing the amount of electrical lividity as they decide on the time of death either.<br/><br/>For now, all I can say is if the new pricing is sensible I'll keep CrimeSpace going; if not, I'll keep it going while I research other options. Chances are that there will be some sort of affordable option to keep the site on Ning. And, personally, I'd rather do that than have to figure out a nice way to get 2,500+ members to move all their content to another site. It'd be like asking everyone at a warehouse party to move to another location because the cops are on their way.<br/><br/>There's a lot of speculation and great ideas in the other, more dramatically titled <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/could-this-be-the-end-of">thread</a>, but I'd like to keep this info up here so people don't have to go searching through the comments to make sense of what's happening at CrimeSpace.<br/><br/>I'll let everyone know more about what's going on some time after May 4th, allowing for enough time for me to recover from the massive self-medication I will most probably spread out over an entire evening of escapism. <br/><br/>Or maybe after a small glass of scotch...<br/> CrimeSpace Bookstore: Calling All Authorstag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-10:537324:Topic:2296422010-03-10T22:51:16.780ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<p>This was originally a broadcast message to all members, but I've been told that not everyone received it, possibly thanks to over-zealous spam filters.<br></br></p>
<p><br></br></p>
<p>At the suggestion of one of our members, I have recently put together a CrimeSpace online bookstore. It's built by a little helper tool at Amazon and as such only features books available there. Many
apologies to independent booksellers, but this is really the only<br />
feasible way for me to put this…</p>
<p>This was originally a broadcast message to all members, but I've been told that not everyone received it, possibly thanks to over-zealous spam filters.<br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>At the suggestion of one of our members, I have recently put together a CrimeSpace online bookstore. It's built by a little helper
tool at Amazon and as such only features books available there. Many<br />
apologies to independent booksellers, but this is really the only<br />
feasible way for me to put this together.<br/>
<br/>
You can access the bookstore from the Store tab (<a href="../../page/crimespace-bookstore?xg_source=msg_mes_network" target="_blank">http://crimespace.ning.com/page/crimespace-bookstore</a>) at the top of any of CrimeSpace's pages. My plan here is to give both<br />
readers and writers an easy way to buy or read about books from<br />
CrimeSpace's members, but I've also added a couple of other sections. <br/>
<br/>
'Essentials' is a list of book recommendations taken from one of<br />
CrimeSpace's early mammoth threads, and the 'Writing' section will be<br />
filled with books I've read myself on the subject of writing crime<br />
fiction, as well as any recommendations.<br/>
<br/>
Of course, the main section is 'Members', which I will most probably<br />
split up alphabetically to make it easier to navigate, as well as<br />
adding a separate section for 'Anthologies'. I've taken the liberty of<br />
trawling through member pages and adding books to the store myself, but<br />
I got pretty damned tired after about a hundred books, so I'm hoping I<br />
can pass that workload on to all the authors out there.<br/>
<br/>
Readers can safely ignore the rest of this message.<br/>
<br/>
What I need from each author who has their work available on Amazon is<br />
their name, book title, and ASIN number. If it's an anthology, don't<br />
worry about the name, I'll sort it by title. Just send me (Daniel<br />
Hatadi, Creator Extraordinaire) a message on CrimeSpace like this, with<br />
'CrimeSpace Bookstore' in the subject heading:<br/>
<br/>
***<br/>
Name: Megan Abbott<br/>
Title: Bury Me Deep<br/>
ASIN: 1416599096<br/>
***<br/>
<br/>
The ASIN number will sometimes be included in the Product Details of<br />
your book's Amazon listing, or it may just be the ISBN-10 number in the<br />
same section. Basically, it's the group of ten numbers and/or letters<br />
in the book's URL. <br/>
<br/>
I'd appreciate it if you test the number yourself by adding it to the end of this link and trying it out in a web browser:</p>
<div class="im"><br/> <br/>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/</a><br/>
<br/></div>
For the example above, the link would be this:<br/>
<br/>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1416599096" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/1416599096</a><br/> <br/>
Feel free to give me multiple titles, but try not to go overboard by<br />
listing three billion e-book short stories. I'd like to make the<br />
bookstore a fairly level playing field, so I may end up limiting the<br />
number of books per author. For now, I'll leave it up to you as I don't<br />
know exactly what data I'm going to end up with.<br/><br/>Also, remember that CrimeSpace is about crime fiction, not other genres, so only crime fiction will be included in the store.<br/>
<br/>
To be completely transparent about this, any book purchased through the<br />
store will earn me a 4% referral fee. It costs me $US20/month to<br />
control the space on the right for the bookstore sample so I expect to<br />
run it at a loss. If it bugs me too much I'll figure something else<br />
out, but my point is that I don't expect to make money off this and<br />
that's not why I run CrimeSpace anyway. I do it for the love (insert<br />
cheesy wink here).<br/>
<br/>
Feel free to ask me any questions or make suggestions, but don't be<br />
surprised if I take a little while to get back to you. I'll be dealing<br />
with a lot of messages over the next couple of weeks. And don't worry if the store jumps around a little in that period, it'll settle down soon.<br/>
<br/>
Cheers,<br/>
Daniel<br/> Author Directory Offlinetag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-10-26:537324:Topic:1638622008-10-26T01:24:17.701ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Due to some issues with the messaging system, I was forced to upgrade CrimeSpace to the latest software on the Ning platform.<br />
<br />
While there are a number of improvements in many areas, there have been changes made in the way that the network can be customised. Unfortunately, this means that the Author Directory no longer works in its present form.<br />
<br />
There are further changes to be made to the Ning platform over the next couple of months which will allow me to develop a new version of the Author…
Due to some issues with the messaging system, I was forced to upgrade CrimeSpace to the latest software on the Ning platform.<br />
<br />
While there are a number of improvements in many areas, there have been changes made in the way that the network can be customised. Unfortunately, this means that the Author Directory no longer works in its present form.<br />
<br />
There are further changes to be made to the Ning platform over the next couple of months which will allow me to develop a new version of the Author Directory. Until then, all the profile information remains intact.<br />
<br />
Sorry, all, for the inconvenience. I'll let everyone know when the situation changes. Who's Online Feature Removedtag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-09-05:537324:Topic:1588522008-09-05T16:47:36.283ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Some of you may have become quite used to the "Who's Online" feature on the right hand sidebar of CrimeSpace. Turns out that the third party developer has been <a href="http://widgetlaboratory.blogspot.com/2008/08/ning-has-unilaterally-removed.html">taken</a> <a href="http://developer.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1185512%3ATopic%3A63551">offline</a>, so I'm afraid this feature is no longer available. Hopefully I'll be able to find a replacement some time in the future, but for now, I've had to…
Some of you may have become quite used to the "Who's Online" feature on the right hand sidebar of CrimeSpace. Turns out that the third party developer has been <a href="http://widgetlaboratory.blogspot.com/2008/08/ning-has-unilaterally-removed.html">taken</a> <a href="http://developer.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1185512%3ATopic%3A63551">offline</a>, so I'm afraid this feature is no longer available. Hopefully I'll be able to find a replacement some time in the future, but for now, I've had to simply remove the feature.