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The Future of Freelancing

Archives for January 25, 2008

January 25, 2008 By Michelle V. Rafter

Go Web, Young Man

Newspapers see the future, and it’s digital. The latest evidence: earlier this week the New York Times Co. and three other investors sank $29.5 million into Automattic, the company that makes WordPress blogging software runs the WordPress.com free blogging Website. (Disclaimer: I use WordPress.com to create and host this blog.) According to a news report, […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Freelancing, Media Business, Newspapers, Technology, Web 2.0, Writing Tagged With: About.com, Akismet, Automattic, Blogger, Blogging, Blogs, E.W. Scripps, Google, Los Angeles Times, Movable Type, New York Times, newspaper business sections, Newspapers, Orange County Register, Publishing, Publishing 2.0, Russ Stanton, Six Apart, TypePad, Wall Street Journal, WordPress, WordPress.com, World Economic Forum

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