I've been making my living as a business writer since 1988. Over the years I've noticed that those who make money writing are rarely the best writers, just the best at selling themselves and getting paid.
I have more respect for the "give it away and pray" crowd than I do for the slicksters whose business skills give them an edge over better writers. Much more respect.
When I started up City Pages blogging community in 2003, I wrote an anonymous front page blog that did exactly what you are proposing. Each day's early morning post was a mix of the best of the net and just about every linkable page of new City Pages content that had been posted since my previous blog post.
I thought Village Voice Media should have a website dedicated solely to driving traffic to other VVM sites, but mine was a very small voice in a very large media corporation where all the important people were obsessed with 2) being important, and 1) not being laid off.
VVM changed their site architecture since then, but I'd be glad to email you some samples of what we were doing. City Pages kept doing this concept after I left, but changed the concept radically a year or two ago.
Mike, I deeply appreciate your criticism of Apple, but please don't use Microsoft as an alt example. That's too much like saying "if you don't like Hitler, you must be Stalin."
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Their name was always obscenely racist
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Give it away and pray
I have more respect for the "give it away and pray" crowd than I do for the slicksters whose business skills give them an edge over better writers. Much more respect.
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Konrath's not kidding
Didn't know he was behind it, but I did wonder if the whiskey folks paid him to create that character.
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Maybe it's time for corporations to grow up
Because you're right, no one wants to read about Cogswell cogs or Spacely sprockets.
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Been there, done that
I thought Village Voice Media should have a website dedicated solely to driving traffic to other VVM sites, but mine was a very small voice in a very large media corporation where all the important people were obsessed with 2) being important, and 1) not being laid off.
VVM changed their site architecture since then, but I'd be glad to email you some samples of what we were doing. City Pages kept doing this concept after I left, but changed the concept radically a year or two ago.
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this DSL user not blocked
Altho I'd never been to 4chan, I had no trouble accessing their site.
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