The magazine formerly known as Apex Digest, has raised its payment to minimum pro rates — 5c/ word — and has gone online. So now they really are Apex Online.

It’s a good move for them, I believe, there’s more room for growth and a larger readership for a semi-prozine on the interwebs. What peeves me a little bit, is it seems they will also be posting stories on Mondays.

So — Strange Horizons, Fantasy and Apex: all on Monday. Is Monday official story day in America or what?

Speaking of Fantasy, check out their new website — looks stunning, in my opinion.

I’m a bit disappointed to see they removed the Sharethis button, which I personally think has so much potential. Suppose they had their reasons, especially since Sharethis upgraded their services a couple of weeks ago and now include the option to share/ link to blogs, such as wordpress, blogger, or livejournal.

Most of the time when people link to stories they like, it is on their blogs, and now that Sharethis finally allows the option to shoot a link straight to your blog..well, it is a pity. Clarkesworld still has it, although they’re using the older one.

(Mind you, sharethis isn’t all that easy to install on some systems; absolute child’s play on wordpress, but with the Nebula site I’m scratching my head figuring out where the code snippet has to go. Hopefully the designer knows.)

This is the fascinating thing about net-tools: they are out there, hordes of them and they can do oh so much. But a very large number you have to tag, and keep checking back, be a little patient (ha! like that is in keeping with net mentality, where every conversation older than 30 days is null and void, and the drive is for now!now!now! rather than permanence) and wait for them to sort their stuff out and do what you want them to do how you want them to do it.

Some good examples here would be Shelfari, who is getting better all the time, or Retaggr, a very promising idea that still needs some work.

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