Why writing for the Web is like writing for the road.
Writing for the Web is a lot like writing billboards. Think about it: when you’re driving at highway speeds and you see billboards, you can actually only read the ones that are short and sweet. There’s...
View ArticleContent mills: degrading writing quality and writers’ lives.
Have you noticed sloppy, even grossly inaccurate writing on “how-to” Web sites? Or on travel and food sites? How about oddly similar articles showing up on multiple sites? Or enticing headline links...
View ArticleContent Mills: Bad for Writers … Bad for Clients.
Is content still king? Ever since the earliest days of the Internet, there has been one great need above all other needs: content. Without good, relevant content, there’s no value to a web site or...
View ArticleSocial media fatigue and really bad writing.
The sheep in wolf’s clothing. A great deal of social media is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. There’s absolutely nothing simpler than posting an opinion or an article to a blog, or a brief message on...
View ArticleWriting “content” does not make you a writer.
“I always wanted to be a writer.” Do you remember being taught and encouraged to write as well as you possibly could? To write a first draft, set it aside for a couple of days then come back to it and...
View ArticleAre you paying for plagiarism?
That question up in the headline could mean several things, and could be taken several ways … I mean all of them: Are you promoting plagiarism in your content by using the cheapest possible provider?...
View ArticleEt tu, Hugh Laurie?
This really bugs me. There are things that bother all of us, gnaw at us in small ways, like gnats. It’s like that for me whenever I hear grammatical laziness – grammatical gaffs that are allowed to...
View ArticleAre you still slaving away for content mills?
Wake up writers, or we’re all through. Content mills and farms are slave ships … highly profitable slave ships. They profit from the labors of inexperienced or desperate people who would like to think...
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