Black Gate has arrived!

Received issue 14 of Black Gate and have started reading it. The magazine is a print magazine but given the expense of using the postal system, I elected to continue my subscription via PDF. So far happy with it. Formatting is good, I’ll test it on a variety of devices and give an update later.
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Board of Directors anyone?

Since I’ve retired from a dayjob I’ve been supporting myself a bit with my writing but primarily through stock and fund investments (the realworld kind, not the Empire Avenue kind). One aspect of owning stock that I hadn’t thought much about before actually owning shares in a company was the board of directors. Now [...]

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Empire Avenue – The Big Reset

Last week was the final week of the closed beta test for Empire Avenue, a new social networking site, unique from others like Facebook and Twitter in that it allows the users (Influencers) to actively trade one another with virtual cash. Influencer’s value is determined by their online activity on other social networks. Cash earned [...]

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I’m a stock… on Empire Avenue

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//Do not edit the following:
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var eav_asset_host = eav_is_ssl ? “https://badge.empireavenue.com/” : “http://badge.empireavenue.com/”;
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The Mystery at Empire Avenue

So a few former co-workers have formed a new company called Empire Avenue. They’ve been mostly quiet but they recently announced a beta of *whatever* it is they are doing. Now that’s the thing, this isn’t the first time people I worked with have went onto new and exciting things but this is the first [...]

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