In the spirit of my recent Craig’s List finds, here’s an older one from Simpson’s Paradox on the same topic: Just saw an ad looking for writers for “an upstart magazine”. I’m thinking they meant “a startup magazine”, you know, a no pay, write for exposure, percentage of clickthoughs, etc., magazine, rather than a presumptuous…

An anonymous Craig’s Lister posted this guide to standard market rates. I guess he or she was also tired of applying to jobs, and wasting time exchanging emails to find out that “the going rate” is 25 cents per blog post. Sure, you can get content for that price… if you want to outsource to…

Do you use Twitter? I’ve heard that blogging breaks the barriers between Author and Audience. Well, Twitter breaks the barrier between blogger and commenter. It’s group instant messaging or microblogging for your phone or on the web. Whenever Stick’s dad asks me about a tech buzzword, I make an offline comparision and end with “Like…

What do you all think of the Today.com blog network? Has anyone gotten a real live check from these people? I made an account because I’m interested in a $1/post scheme in a world of .00000001 per word (or percentage of ad revenue). But I’m annoyed by the AdSense ads all over the control panel…

<div xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’>These rules for writing more pretentious poetry also work for writing more pretentious blog posts!<br/><blockquote>Need help annoying the hell out of your writer’s group? The best way is to learn how to write a pretentious poem. This lesson works best with an example, so let’s start with one of the simplest and most well…