{"id":378,"date":"2007-04-01T15:41:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T19:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/weekly-summaries-march-25\/"},"modified":"2007-04-01T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T19:41:26","slug":"weekly-summaries-march-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/weekly-summaries-march-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.wired.com\/dynamic\/stories\/F\/FRANCE_UFOS?SITE=WIRE&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">France has put its UFO files online<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.b5media.com\/~r\/b5media\/TheGoldenPencil\/~3\/104314090\/\">What makes a writer a professional?<\/a> &#8211; As in, do $4 keyword articles count, why do people write them, and shouldn&#8217;t companies want better quality articles and be willing to pay more?<\/p>\n<p>Links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldenpencil.com\/2006\/10\/31\/the-4-article-writer\/\">an interview with a guy (in the US) who writes the $4 articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of this amused me.  I recently signed up for a free account on the freelance bidding site Guru.com (I&#8217;m preparing to look for documentation assignments) and got a notification about a project to write 1000 articles for a grand total of $1000 to $2500.  I don&#8217;t know if they got any bids; they certainly didn&#8217;t get mine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/issues\/2007\/2\/Massing.asp\">Missing Middle<\/a> &#8211; An article in the Columbia Journalism Review wonders: <em>Since all of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s news networks and most of its top newspapers and magazines are based on the East Coast, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no nationally distributed heartland perspective,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [said a journalism professor in Northwest Ohio]. If a network were based in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, or St. Louis, she asks, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what would its coverage look like?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has put its UFO files online What makes a writer a professional? &#8211; As in, do $4 keyword articles count, why do people write them, and shouldn&#8217;t companies want better quality articles and be willing to pay more? Links &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/weekly-summaries-march-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}