To do great writing, read great writing. Here’s the great writing I’ve been reading this week:
The sky didn’t fall, the earth didn’t shake, but Demand Media did go public this week. Stock in the content farm gained a third in its opening day of trading, a gain that was being interpreted any number of ways in the immediate aftermath. SearchEngineLand’s Danny Sullivan noted that based on the first day’s trading, Demand was worth more than The New York Times, which led him to wonder what the newspaper would look like if it was re-written in Demand’s SEO-driven style. Since he’s creative as well as inquisitive, Sullivan dummied up just such a Times front page and included it in a post he called The New York Times, Demand Media Edition. Here’s what it looks like:
Here’s what else I’ve been reading this week:
- Men’s Health Editor Plagiarizes His Own Writers (Gawker)
- Tracking Down My Online Haters (CNN.com)
- Is This Google Algorithm Change About Content Farms or Not? (WebProNews)
- Tools of the day: definr & Thsrs (Mediabistro’s 10,000 Words)
- 5 Things I Learned About Writing by Watching Football (Romance Writer’s Revenge)