Not Waving But Drowning

over my head in the information age

Freelancing for $2

My suggestions of browsing freelance job boards for work?
Don’t.
You will not believe the amount of writing people are willing to do for the most pathetic amounts of money. Look at the this posting:
A writing opportunity for serious article writers. Its more like a regular job than any other writing work. The writer would be required [...]


Significant for Some.

Apologies for the intrusive advertising in the right column.
The skyscraper banner ruins my theme, but I just haven’t got around to modifying it more to fit in better or replace it with something else.
Louis Gray wrote an article a couple of weeks back igniting a debate about advertising on blogs. Much of what he said [...]


Zunes, iPods and Paul Thurrott

I love reading Phil Thurrott’s SuperSite Blog.
He’s a great journalist and is also maybe the most balanced IT writer I have read. He may be involved in a lot of Microsoft work but if they do something stupid, he says so. If Apple does something great, he acknowledges it.
What I like best about his blog [...]


Weekly Feed Clean

Subscribing to feeds can become somewhat addictive. So unless I regularly go through and remove feeds I am not paying much attention to then it can become too much to handle. Not only is it a waste of bandwidth having an additional 2000 items downloading that you simply mark as “read” but it makes reading [...]


The Three Rules of Blogging

Over the last decade blogging has become possibly the most conflicting and confusing  communication medium.
Unlike traditional media which tends to look outwards, blogging tends to turn inwards and focus in on themselves, blogging, other bloggers and other blogs. As Matthew Ingram said a couple of weeks ago:
the number one rule of the blogosphere is that [...]


The Future of Literature

Whilst browsing the net I came across a website for freelance writers to post their latest articles for anyone to view and comment on. I actually forget the actual website and I am too lazy to go searching through my history right now.
Just take a look at this list of articles from the home page: [...]


RSS Awareness Day

Well today is May the 1st, the day Brian Clark declared as RSS awareness day a few weeks ago.
The idea is to show more people the benefits of RSS feeds and get them to use them instead of email notifications. I personally converted one person… my girlfriend, but that doesn’t count as I am now [...]


Best Quotes

Here are a few statements and quotes that caught my eye this week amongst some of the top bloggers:
Paris Lemon after joining in the Microsoft Vista internal promo bitchmeme…

Charles Cooper of CNET feels the need to inform everyone that the video was meant to be a spoof. Uh, no shit Charles! Just because it’s a [...]


  
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