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[content] Is writing for the rich? - THE WEEK
On the web, no bureaucracy makes them wait their turn, no dunderheaded editors hold back their talents. But for a host of other young writers, there is still the problem of getting paid. Newspapers are no longer an option.
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A quarter century later, John Maynard Keynes often earned the equivalent of thousands of dollars freelance writing for newspapers and serious periodicals. Indeed, earnings from newspapers were at times a significant part of his income. Keynes was famous and controversial in addition to being brilliant, which surely elevated his earning power. But he also benefited, as Davis had, from a marketplace in which reporting, analysis and opinion—that is, writing—was not relentlessly dirt cheap.
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Yet judging from what I paid this morning to read a slew of expert reporting and commentary online, the value of journalistic writing in the marketplace is not at all high.
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[publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow
I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
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I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
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Most people who download the book don't end up buying it, but they wouldn’t have bought it in any event, so I haven’t lost any sales, I’ve just won an audience
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A List Apart: Articles: The Discipline of Content Strategy
But who among us is asking the scary, important questions about content, such as “What’s the point?” or “Who cares?” Who’s talking about the time-intensive, complicated, messy content development process? Who’s overseeing the care and feeding of content o
Knol and void: The day I became a published Google 'expert' | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
Google's response didn't give me any confidence that the system won't be widely abused. And it's likely that people who disagree with my knol will create one of their own with contradictory conclusions.
Time for a rethink on internet plagiarism? | Schools comment | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Teachers must be highly skilled in training pupils to analyse, to question, to hypothesise, to test out theories and to back up findings with evidence so that when they research using the internet they can discriminate between the substantial, the flimsy
infocalypse - For Only One Day (also, “Ouch!”)
Eric Rice started the scratchblogging meme the other day with his idea to write a blog post - by hand. A few of us followed suit. Let the revolution begin
George Orwell: Why I Write
"I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer" George Orwell
The birth of microjournalism : CyberJournalist.net
Journalists are increasingly finding new ways to use Twitter, the microblogging application, and now it’s becoming more common on the campaign trail.
Rabble.ca writer Wayne McPhail uses Twitter for reader feedback on draft article
From writer Wayne MacPhail: "Posted a draft of my next rabble.ca colum http://wmacphail.tumblr.com/ please DM feedback to make it better. Pubs on Thurs. Thanks!"
The Future of Ideas is now Free (Lessig Blog)
Lawrence Lessig's new book, The Future of Ideas - now FREE for download via a CC license. I applaud this - so much so that I will also PURCHASE the paper thing from the bookstore :-)
TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)
The video I showed you today about user generated content, mashups new ideas about Copyright.
NYT: Japanese cel phone novels shift publishing paradigm
Smartmob trend picks up mainstream cred as legitimate publishing model.
Online writing style guides - a list of sources
Online writing (via Khalyboy - thanks!)
feeding change
The most wonderful kids writer in Canada - just returned from his arctic adventure.
Harlan Ellison - you must pay the writer
Harlan Ellison on why you should pay writers for their work - as you would pay for any other work (warning: explicit language)
Writing tips from George Orwell
"Two legs good, four legs baaaaaad!" ... just kidding. Orwell wrote a lot more than Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four. He wrote and wrote and wrote and then some.Word!
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