- France has put its UFO files online
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What makes a writer a professional? – As in, do $4 keyword articles count, why do people write them, and shouldn’t companies want better quality articles and be willing to pay more?
Links to an interview with a guy (in the US) who writes the $4 articles.
The timing of this amused me. I recently signed up for a free account on the freelance bidding site Guru.com (I’m preparing to look for documentation assignments) and got a notification about a project to write 1000 articles for a grand total of $1000 to $2500. I don’t know if they got any bids; they certainly didn’t get mine.
- Missing Middle – An article in the Columbia Journalism Review wonders: Since all of the nation’s news networks and most of its top newspapers and magazines are based on the East Coast, “there’s no nationally distributed heartland perspective,” [said a journalism professor in Northwest Ohio]. If a network were based in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, or St. Louis, she asks, “what would its coverage look like?”
Readings on Writing- On the Internet There Is No Such Thing as a Brand. There Is Only You September 1, 2011Self-Portrait - Vincent van Gogh I believe this strongly about the Internet: There is no such thing as a brand. To me, a brand is a cultivated fiction, it's an image spun from a grain of truth. You hear about athletes and celebrities cultivating brands, whether it's a tough-guy image or a nice-guy image or one of dispassionate competency. Is it tru […]
- Updated Feature: Submissions Tracker August 24, 2011We added a small but useful new column to the Submissions Tracker for registered users. You can now see the ETA (estimated time of arrival) in days from today of when you might receive a response. This is based on our AvgRT and EstRT columns, and is just meant to be a ballpark figure (or range). […]
- The Other Side of the Story: Just Blog It: Why Blogging About Writing Can Help Writers Improve July 27, 2011[…]
- Ten Things Writers Shouldn’t Do « Twenty Palaces July 27, 2011[…]
- The Thing About Self-Promotion is That Self-Promotion Sucks (But You Have to Do It Anyway) July 18, 2011"Nen Dreier, det Schäfchen" by Theodor Hosemann So, in case you missed the to-do on Friday, I posted a "pledge drive" that was intended to be jocular but also nudge-nudge in its approach, and I received some negative feedback about its thrust and style (along with lots of positive feedback from people who didn't think anything of it) […]
- On the Internet There Is No Such Thing as a Brand. There Is Only You September 1, 2011
- Misc. Readings
- "It will be good exposure" July 30, 2011Well, it might be. Now that everyone, every brand, every organization and just about every person is in a race to build trust or an online following or a reputation, the question of working for free in exchange for exposure confronts us all. Should you art direct a new ad for the local zoo, merely to build your cred? Should you give that speech for free, bec […]
- Huzzah for the New Release! May 26, 2011The Importance of Being Emily is out now! And she's doing rather well. I'm trying not to obsessively check the Samhain store best seller list, but she was on it for a bit. I did break my "Thou Shalt Not Read Reviews/Ratings on GoodReads" commandment and was promptly crushed, so I will not be doing that again. It's a commandment for a […]
- Apple Rejects Sony Reader App Over In-App Purchases. Kindle Next? | Epicenter | Wired.com February 1, 2011Shared by Elizabeth Grr. I want to read my Sony books on my iPod. […]
- Stephen Wolfram Blog : Jeopardy, IBM, and Wolfram|Alpha January 27, 2011Contrast of IBM's language processing system for question answering on Jeopardy versus Wolfram|Alpha's approach using computable knowledge to derive answers. […]
- http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/15/if-youre-a-good-person-or-a-web December 15, 2010http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/15/if-youre-a-good-person-or-a-web-browsing-fiend-download-this-chrome-extension-now/ (And if you don't mind google counting your tabs...) […]
- "It will be good exposure" July 30, 2011