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A veritable article fest

September 29th, 2009 · 5 Comments

This year has been busy and exciting and just plain exhausting. But I’ve finally found some time to upload a bunch of the articles that I’ve had published this year for alive and blush magazines. The majority focus on green issues. I’ve been somewhat typecast as the devil’s green advocate, being asked to find flaws […]

Tags: reading · freelancing · article

21st century tips on finding work

January 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

You may as well recycle those newspaper classifieds, because that old school job-finding tool belongs in the 20th century. Spurred on by the recession, a number of tech-savvy people have started blogging on various “new school” ways of getting a job. Tech evangelist Robert Scoble has some crafty tips. I tend to agree with […]

Tags: resources · inspiration · employment · freelancing

Want to write for Wired?

October 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Wired magazine has some interesting pieces this month. Well, every month is pretty good, but writers might appreciate this behind-the-scenes look at how an article is assigned, written, edited, and designed. You can  read the email correspondence between author and editor, and get an idea of how to pitch your story idea to a magazine. […]

Tags: writing · documentation · technical writing · freelancing

Is Brijit liberating or enslaving?

April 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, Brijit is a website that publishes 100-word summaries of various web, TV, radio, and print media. The idea is that there is so much information out there - wouldn’t it be nice if we had the short-short version so we can get the gist of […]

Tags: writing · journalism · web 2.0 · freelancing · the internet