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What the Internet has done for writing

Found this while browsing through the popular writing-related links on social bookmarking site Delicious. I can’t help but get a little annoyed at the $2-blog-writing schemes, SEO “content” farms, and a general deterioration of originality, voice, and real content that passes for so-called writing online.
Now I have an image to conjure whenever this black mood [...]

Posted 06 August 2008 † gordon § Just a thought § Links § Writing § Writing craft § Writing tech ‡ Comments (1)

Let’s See, Now… What Else Can We Outsource?

It was probably arrogant and short-sighted of me to think journalism would ever be spared from the outsourcing wave. I’m all for emerging economies, but this is beyond bullshit.
A publisher in Pasadena hired two journalists in India to cover city council meetings via the web. It’s only costing him about $20k. I don’t like [...]

Posted 11 May 2007 † gordon § Links § Work § Writing ‡ Comments (2)

Maybe We Should Just Stop

Book and lit blog, BookFox (which I just discovered from my logs of links to this site) has a post about literary journals and their response times. I quote:
I’ll have a tiny journal like Apple Valley Review reject my short shorts in less than a week, while a heavy hitter like Columbia Journal still hasn’t [...]

Posted 02 February 2007 † gordon § Links § Markets § Publishing § Writing ‡ Comments (7)