I finally did it, I wrote my first article for the Demand Studios content farm site, eHow. I wasn’t playing the part of a content farmer, though, but rather a farm worker, writing an article for little pay (compared to other rates I have earned as a professional writer). I signed up for Demand Studios […]
Collaboration thoughts
Some of my favorite quotes that make me chuckle are the ones about collaborative authoring and the difficulty being people, not tools. For example, Alan Porter recently wrote an article Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction for Ars Technica. My favorite line from the comments was “Remember that the people contributing to it are […]
What’s micro boredom?
The term microboredom caught my eye on this Trend Blend 2009 graphic under Media, furthest out on the Information Overload tentacle. Beth Kanter blogged about the graphic and trends she’ll be looking into in Trend Blend 2009: A Map of Time and Tide. Click on the image to go to a flickr-stored full sized version […]