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10 Reasons Every Freelance Writer Should Have a Blog

By Michelle V. Rafter on February 18, 2008 | 7 Responses

I took to blogging fairly quickly and I finally figured out why. I wrote a weekly newspaper column for more than five years. After that, I wrote a weekly column for Reuters, the financial wire service, for seven years. After a dozen years, writing something once a week – or more – was so second [...]

Posted in Blogs, Freelancing, Web 2.0, Writing | Tagged Amazon Associates, Blogger, BloggerJobs, Blogging, Blogs, blogs for writers, freelance writers, freelance writers who have blogs, Google Adsense, ProBlogger, TypePad, WordPress | 7 Responses

Go Web, Young Man

By Michelle V. Rafter on January 25, 2008 | 1 Response

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, [...]

Posted in Blogs, Freelancing, Media Business, Newspapers, Technology, Web 2.0, Writing | Tagged 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 | 1 Response

Go Web, Young Man

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