A big part of what I do, aside from being an info-provocateur, is writing – journalism, web content, you name it. Since I’m independent, I’m always on the lookout for interesting writing opportunities that pay.
Where do I look? About.com’s freelance writing guide Anne Wayman has made it very easy for me. Here’s how…
CONTENTIOUS already covers a lot of topics – but this blog is a work in progress, and I certainly want to keep my eye out for intriguing new topics of interest to my readers. Therefore, question 8 of my reader survey was: What NEW topics or issues would you like to see CONTENTIOUS cover? The 35 people who answered this question had some interesting ideas…
Back on July 30, Fredrik Wackå published an excellent article in Corporate Blogging Info about a common problem in the world of corporate weblogs: What do you do when the person who should be writing your company’s blog really can’t? The potential reasons behind that “can’t” usually stem from some critical lack – a lack of time, writing skills, interest, technical ability, or knowledge of proper blogging etiquette. Wackå offers pretty good advice for tackling this problem. I agree with him on some points, but have a different perspective on others…
I recently switched this weblog over to WordPress blogging software. Since then, all sorts of interesting things keep popping up related to the switch that I have to learn and/or handle.
Case in point: URL formatting – a surprisingly important issue for both my e-mail alerts and for search engines. Let me explain the issue, and then I’ll tell you about a really cool tool called TinyUrl that’s helping me leverage changing circumstances…
I am back home again, safe in Colorado, after outrunning hurricane Frances. I spent Thursday and part of Friday in Orlando, FL with my sister and her family, after spending a couple of days at the Poynter Institute working on a project. It was quite interesting to see gas station after gas station totally out of gas! Well, Frances has been downgraded, so hopefully the winds won’t be so severe, although the flooding is likely to be. Keep your fingers crossed for the people of Florida.
Anyway, now that I’m back I’m dealing with my own personal flood: my normal backlog of information overload. I’ve been contemplating how I might deal more effectively with information overload, especially since my to-do list for this weblog always seems to be running a month behind. Well, an Aug. 16 article by John Udell, Information routing, offers some very useful points to consider on this front…
According to this eWeek article, shortly Feedster will begin including its “sponsored links” (paid advertising) in its search-keyword-based webfeeds.
As I’ve written before, I don’t have a problem with the general concept of ads in webfeeds, as long as it’s implemented considerately. However, I was a bit surprised to hear about this ad deal between Feedster and Kanoodle – mainly because Feedster’s service is still pretty buggy, especially its custom webfeeds. Even Feedster founder Scott Johnson openly acknowledges his service’s many quality problems (to his great credit, I might add)…
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