OUR 25TH YEAR( culture / writing / blog / friendsnews )
Can you believe we've been whois.com/whois/friendnews.comonline since 1999 !?!? Even more unbelievable, we STILL have almost no audience! Truly amazing. Shouting into the void for a quarter century. Quite impressive, no? Anyone reading this can honestly say they're special!
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ABOUT FRIENDSNEWS( home / friendsnews )
This is quite possibly THE COOLEST SITE ON THE INTERNET! Why? Because we let you come and go as you please without being bombarded with pop-ups asking you to join any sort of lists; our pages aren't 90% ads, like so many others; and, we don't use one of those annoying scripts that detects when you are moving your mouse to click away fr... read more
NO ANNOYING PROMPTS( culture / writing / blog / friendsnews )
Aren't you glad we don't have any of those annoying pop-up ads asking you to join our newsletter? Ironic, isn't it, given that we are an online newsletter?Please support this website, should you be so inclined: buy one of williamarthurholmes.com/my novels/novellas ; buy ... read more
MOST POPULAR SITE ON THE INTERNET( culture / writing / blog / friendsnews )
This is the 12,157,539th most popular website in the world, according to nibbler.silktide.com/silktide.com ! Wow! We have hit the big time. See image here: /images/friendsnews-nibbler-report.webp... read more
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HISTORY OF FRIENDSNEWS.COM( culture / writing / blog / friendsnews )
FYI for those researching insignificant corners of the web: web.archive.org/web/20060902062742/friendsnews.com/Wayback Machine Please support this website, should you be so inclined: buy one of williamarthurholmes.com/my novels/novellas ; b... read more
GUEST POSTING( culture / writing / blog / friendsnews )
I've been following and listening to Jeff Goins's goinswriter.comTribeWriters program, and he says an important aspect to successful blogging (at least as far as getting noticed) is to guest post on other people's blogs. Jeff is a great resource, by the way. So, if you want to post somethin... read more