Thursday, February 17, 2011

Making Money Web


Listing the eight big trends journalism will see over the next year, Josh highlighted the increasing role that the singles model will play in the news. He was talking about the disaggregation of the author and the publisher — “a way for an individual writer to kind of go around getting the approval of a glossy magazine editor or getting a newspaper editor’s approval to get something to an audience.” But the idea has another intriguing twist, as well: individual news organizations using the singles model to circumvent traditional constraints on publishing.


One outlet that’s making a go of that approach is ProPublica, which, at the launch of Amazon’s Kindle Singles platform late last month, published a story as a Kindle Single: staff writer Sebastian Rotella’s nearly 13,000-word-long exposé, “Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story.”


The piece, also available for free on the web, is a work of long-form investigative journalism, telling the story of the complex stew of relationships and circumstances that led to the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai. It’s long for a web piece, short for a book — right in the sweet spot Kindle Singles are trying to hit.


Selling it through Amazon for 99 cents was an experiment, Richard Tofel, ProPublica’s general manager, told me. From the looks of things, though, it’s been a successful one: The story’s been a regular in the top 10 of Kindle Singles bestsellers (it’s been as high as #2, as far as I’ve seen; it’s #6 at this writing). It’s also currently #1 in books about both terrorism and international security — and #1, for that matter, across all books (e- and otherwise) in Amazon’s International Security category. That, with almost no marketing effort (besides the placement of the story on Amazon’s site itself) on the part of ProPublica.


And if you’re wondering what being a top-10 Kindle Single gets you in terms of actual sales: In the first two weeks of its availability in the Singles Store, the piece sold more more than 1,900 copies, Tofel says.


The 1,900 sales number is certainly not a lot compared to other metrics (pageviews and the like). And given the story’s 99-cent pricing (the minimum amount for a Single) and the 70 percent royalty it means for ProPublica, the direct financial gain isn’t much, either. “The money will be nice, but even if you multiply the eventual sales of this by ten — and multiply that by 20 — it still doesn’t turn into enough money to float our boat,” Tofel notes.


Then again, pageviews — while they’re good at measuring a story’s popularity and decent at measuring its impact — don’t accrue to much direct financial gain, either, even on a site that accepts advertising. The Singles model, instead, allows ProPublica to take a new twist on the old “diversify your assets” maxim: It’s one more revenue stream for the outfit. And, given the broad brand exposure that being listed on Amazon’s site allows, the Singles model could allow separate (and sometimes contradictory) goals to be achieved on the same publishing platform: editorial impact and financial gain.


Besides, the value proposition here lies more in the cultural shift that the Kindle Single and its counterparts represent: the editorial normalization of long-form. The web isn’t bringing about the long-predicted “death of long-form”; on the contrary, it seems, the digital world is heralding a renaissance in long-form reportage. “The economics of book and magazine publishing for the last 100 years have had the effect of saying that you cannot write narrative nonfiction at longer than 10,000 words,” Tofel says — and, for that matter, shorter than book length.


Sheri Fink’s story on the chaos at a hospital devastated by Hurricane Katrina — the New York Times Magazine piece that won ProPublica its Pulitzer — was about the same length as Rotella’s story, around 13,000 words. And “that’s pretty much the outer edge of the range for a magazine piece,” Tofel notes. On the other side of the equation, you have books, where short of a certain length, Tofel notes, “it’s hard to charge enough for a book to make money.” Essentially, magazines have had a maximum length for stories, while books have had a minimum. The end result: “There’s this void,” Tofel notes. “And the void is dictated not by narrative, but by economics.” Despite the web’s ability to remove the physical constraints from the editorial process, until now, there hasn’t been a platform that’s been well suited to the length. Journalism hasn’t had its equivalent of the novella.


“One of the things that people were saying a few years ago is that long-form is dead,” Tofel notes. In reality, though, “long-form was never alive as a mass medium.”


Selling 1,900 copies at 99 cents doesn’t make for a mass medium either, exactly, but the hope is that the Singles model might allow for a kind of renaissance of the pamphlet, with benefits accruing to reported pieces. The platform allows users to get used (re-used) to the idea of journalism as a long-form, immersive proposition. And for an outfit whose specialty is deep-dive, attention-requiring narrative, that’s valuable. “Anything that promotes ways for people to effectively consume long-form journalism in the modern world is good for us,” Tofel notes. If the big question is whether there’s an audience for longform, he says, “this, to us, looks like an interesting way to find an audience.”



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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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At the time of the now famous Ibanez decision, in which the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court dealt the securitization industry a not-all-that-surprinsing loss by saying that lenders and servicers had to be able to produce reasonable evidence that the mortgage had indeed been transferred to the party that was trying to seize the house. The court wrote:


When a plaintiff files a complaint asking for a declaration of clear title after a mortgage foreclosure, a judge is entitled to ask for proof that the foreclosing entity was the mortgage holder at the time of the notice of sale or foreclosure…. A plaintiff that cannot make this modest showing cannot make this modest showing cannot justly proclaim that it was unfairly denied a declaration of clear title.


Also note this section of the concurring opinion by Judge Cordy:


Foreclosure is a powerful act with significant consequences, and Massachusetts law has always required that it proceed strictly in accord with the statutes that govern it….The plaintiff banks, who brought these cases to clear the titles that they acquired at their own foreclosure sales, have simply failed to prove that the underlying assignments of the mortgages that they allege (and would have) entitled them to foreclose ever existed in any legally cognizable form before they exercised the power of sale that accompanies those assignments.


We were reminded of an outstanding mystery in the Ibanez case by a story tonight by Abigail Field on the role of carelessness by lawyers in the mortgage mess. She mentions a stunning aspect of the Ibanez case, one that quite a few observers, including yours truly, discussed privately at the time: that neither of the banks involved in the case produced a decent set of transaction documents (US Bank didn’t even provide a copy of the pooling and servicing agreement).


It is hard to convey how surprising this revelation is. If you have participated in any kind of corporate transaction, even at the small business level, your attorney as a matter of course will keep a signed copy of the agreement and any important related documents. The servicers and trustees would know that full well. So why did no one call issuer’s counsel and get the paperwork?


Field puzzles through this lapse and comes up with an incomplete list of possibilities:


So, the issue of partial deal documents that came to light in Ibanez and continues to crop up elsewhere means one of three things:


1. Securitization deals were so carelessly done that, despite all the proper documents being created, closing sets don’t exist.

2. Securitization deals were so carelessly done that not all the proper documents were created (such as lists of the mortgages involved) and so closing sets don’t exist.

3. All the documents and closing sets are fine, and the big banks have grown so incompetent they can’t give their foreclosure attorneys deal documents that they do have or could get from their securitization counsel.



I have trouble with her theories 1 and 2. The firms that did securitizations were white shoe firms, some of them of the cusp of top tier, the others just a wee notch below. And this was a bread and butter business. The donkey work of making sure all the documentation is in order is junior level time, which is marked up fully and thus nicely profitable. There would be no reason for the law firm to scrimp on it, and no reason for the client to want the law firm to cut corners.


MBS Guy has an opinion much more in keeping with mine:


I am even more convinced that the failure of the banks’ attorneys to track down the actual legal documents was not “carelessness”. I find it too hard to believe that the attorneys were this incompetent on an appeal of a major issue to the state’s supreme court. They had plenty of time (over a year).


Every deal I ever worked on had a full set of closing documents prepared in a binder. The issuer’s counsel law firm typically sent all of the documents to us via CD. We had stacks of them.


I suspect the foreclosing attorneys requested the documents and the requests were rejected by clever attorneys for the issuers who saw the potential liability and didn’t want to create a clear paper trail back to them.


If the low level foreclosing attorney looks incompetent in assembling his case, that’s one thing. If a big Wall Street law firm made a major mistake about the legal basis for selling loans without proper title in Massachusetts or any other state, well, that’s a whole different story.


Professor Adam Levitin has similarly pointed out that the major securitization law firms are in a sticky position, since they have legal liability on opinion letters.


But how would that operate? Those opinion letters were in an “if-then” form, “if you followed the steps you set forth, then you have a true sale.” But it now appears that much if not all of the securitzation industry opted, sometime after 2002, to change its procedures for how it handled promissory notes and liens without changing its contracts. That means, as we have pointed out repeatedly, that the parties in the origination process made very specific commitments to investors that they violated repeatedly, as a matter of business practice. Yet astonishingly they didn’t change the agreements to reflect what appears to have been a widespread adoption of new practices. Instead, they let the disparity, and the attendant liability, go unremedied.


It seems inconceivable that some of the players involved did not get counsel’s advice on this issue (I’d be stunned if Goldman didn’t; the firm is obsessed with having legal cover for its actions). But the breakdown was primarily in the custodial/trustee end of the process, which is a particularly low fee activity. So it is possible that the trustees or custodians conferred with their attorneys and did not formally bring issuer’s counsel into the loop. At the same time, these bad practices appear to have become so deeply embedded that I find it hard to believe that everyone on the sell side of these deals did not know what was happening as the new procedures became widespread.


As Field intimates, and I’ve said separately, until we see lawyers disbarred and facing charges, we can be pretty certain that we are only scratching the surface of mortgage abuses. But it is beginning to look like that day is not too far off.



ThinkFast: January 4, 2010




President Obama, on his way home from Hawaii, offered an assessment of how Republicans will act in the opening months of 2011, saying he expects they will “play to their base for a certain period of time.” He still retained some optimism, however. “My expectation, my hope is that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell will realize that there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012.”


In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) yesterday, Senate Democratic leadership said “we will block” in the Senate any attempt by the House to “move forward with a repeal of the health care law.” Particularly concerned over the elimination of the “donut hole” Medicare fix, Democrats said the law “is too important to be treated as collateral damage in a partisan mission.”


House Republicans, led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), have announced a list of investigations they hope “could embarrass the Obama administration.” Over the next three months, Issa plans six investigations: into the WikiLeaks scandal; recalls at the Food and Drug Administration; the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the foreclosure crisis; the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s failure to identify the origins of the meltdown; and corruption in Afghanistan.


Obama’s advisers are debating whether he should use his executive authority to issue a signing statement that would allow him to bypass new restrictions on the transfer of Guantánamo detainees. Congress included the restrictions — which would make it harder to close the detention facility — in a defense bill it passed last month and the President is expected to act on the measure this week.


Republican military expert John Wheeler, 66, was found dead in a Delaware landfill Monday. A former aide in the Reagan and both Bush administrations and a veteran of the Vietnam War, Wheeler’s “death has been ruled a homicide.”

 

“A band of Senate Democrats signaled on Monday that it would press forward when Congress convenes this week with a proposal to curtail filibusters and other methods of slowing the chamber’s work.” Democrats will likely use some “procedural sleight-of-hand” to buy time for negotiations with Republicans over rule changes, delaying implementation for a few weeks.


Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) plans to reach out to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to craft a bipartisan immigration reform bill in the new Congress, but it is unclear if Graham will respond favorably to Menendez’s outreach. Otherwise, Menendez said he will introduce his own bill. “If there’s nothing to have hearings about, nothing to debate over, you will never move forward,” he said last month.


And finally: While debating the authenticity of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) new tan, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough wondered if the senator was attempting to mimic pop star David Bowie’s space-traveling alter ego. “Did you follow David Bowie through the Ziggy Stardust years? He had more makeup than Bowie did,” Scarborough said of Graham.  “I think the senator was just out in the sun over the holidays,” replied co-host Willie Geist.


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Before personal computers, most people tracked their finances with a pen and a notebook or other handy paper book that allowed you to write down every bit of money you spent and to post that budget for future reference.

With the invention of the PC, keeping track of your money doesn't have to be rocket science. My own personal strategy for my finances is a combination of efforts that allow both freedom from the boring and freedom from having to double check your figures all the time. It also gives me accurate and up to date looks at my financial situation.

My first strategy is to keep a file box underneath my desk for receipts to go in. Once a week I clean out my purse and my wallet of the receipts collected for purchases or bills. My husband also surrenders his receipts if any for his week of purchases. Once we have put these in the box for a month, we then scan then into monthly files. This eliminates the need to keep the paper receipts out in the open. Saving them to a file also automatically lets you identify exactly each month and the expenses incurred.

After we have scanned and filed these receipts, I enter them into my Quicken program. If you have not used Quicken, you are complicating your life. Quicken is an excellent personal financial tool. It is simple and has excellent help features included. You can download your online accounts right into your Quicken program.

It lets you set up all of your accounts so that everything coming in and everything going out is connected. You know in a second how much money you have available at any given moment. It also gives you the opportunity to connect bank accounts, 401 accounts, mortgage and loan accounts and more with one password. I love that feature. I use that to know if we are growing at a rate we should in the 401k plan and also transfer funds from various accounts without spending a lot of time going from site to site.

The most cherished part of the Quicken software is the tax preparation features. With less than 5 clicks you can have your taxes totally done without worrying about errors. The information you have been putting in for the last year will be processed into your tax return without the hassle of going into a tax preparation place. Or you can print out your yearly information to take to the tax office with you.

We use the scanning of receipts and the Quicken software to manage every aspect of our financial world. To simply our lives, we stay on top of the finances. We set aside one day a month to take care of all of it. It is very efficient and has changed our financial future from speculation to a plan that will provide us with a stable future and a stable retirement.

Finances don't have to be a disaster if you are aware of where your money is going and you keep track efficiently.

Quicken also helps you set goals for saving and spending and gives advice on potential transactions you are planning.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Making Money With Youtube

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Not making money as a YouTube partner? Here are some tips from YouTube itself


YouTube hosted a live event today to help partners get the most out of their YouTube revenue.


Phil Farhi of YouTube, began the event by telling partners about a few of the new initiatives that YouTube is working on, to help make partners as successful as possible. He started by bringing us through the history of advertising on YouTube.


Phil mentioned that just 3 short years ago, YouTube began using in-video and overlay ads, the first step in monetizing videos. And following the first format of ads, YouTube brought Ad Sense ads, enabling smaller advertisers/customers to get on board, allowing YouTube to capture a broader range of advertisers.


Next came in-Stream Ads (mid and pre-roll ads), a format that was launched about two years ago. YouTube said this has been popular because advertisers will pay more for ads that are similar to the format on TV. At almost the same time, promoted ads were introduced and it was proven to drive traffic to videos that were featured using the ‘promoted video’ format.


A few months ago, a new ad format for partners called TrueView was rolled-out. This format lets users watching a video skip the ad after five seconds. An ad format that YouTube says is less interruptive and doesn’t risk annoying your audience because it gives them the chance to hit stop.


Phil asked the question “ What makes a movie a successful?” Using the movie industry as an analogy, he went on to explain that there are many factors that come into play that make up the overall picture; ticket prices, seats filled, distribution etc. It’s the same with YouTube as he pointed out. Partners shouldn’t look at one aspect such as RPM (revenue per thousand page views) or CPM (cost per thousand, as an example $1 or $5 per thousand views), they should look at everything including geography.


A few points to take away


Good partners focus on overall revenue and aren’t fixated on “ticket price”. They also work hard at building a strong audience as well as trying to increase views. Good partners look at geography, RPM and CPM.


Bad partners look at the wrong metrics and don’t build up their audience. Partners who only focus on RPM might think everything is fine however, it’s critical that users concentrate on CPM as well and continue to build audience loyalty.


YouTube says advertisers are creating content that competes with user content, and millions of users are watching advertisements on the site. Think about the popularity of Superbowl ads.


Keep experimenting! Compare ad formats by type and geography and play around with different scenarios. Try enabling ads after your loyal audience has seen them or try it in reverse. Play with different recipes and see what happens when ad formats are enabled/disabled. There is a wide variety of ways to make revenue.


Take a good look at revenue break downs and compare formats; True View, in-Stream, etc.


Better reporting for ad formats coming soon. YouTube admits that partners don’t have the best reporting feature right now.


YouTube will be adding an option for partners to opt-in to just TrueView Ads without needing to be signed up with other formats.


Ensure the metadata on videos have the correct information and enough words to help YouTube’s algorithm bring the best targeted ads to your videos






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Read our Xbox 360 news of GAME selling XBLA games and DLC.

House Unexpectedly Defeats Patriot Act - FoxNews.com

It was the Congressional version of never count your chickens before they're hatched.

OFWs claim jail beatings - Arab <b>News</b>

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Not making money as a YouTube partner? Here are some tips from YouTube itself


YouTube hosted a live event today to help partners get the most out of their YouTube revenue.


Phil Farhi of YouTube, began the event by telling partners about a few of the new initiatives that YouTube is working on, to help make partners as successful as possible. He started by bringing us through the history of advertising on YouTube.


Phil mentioned that just 3 short years ago, YouTube began using in-video and overlay ads, the first step in monetizing videos. And following the first format of ads, YouTube brought Ad Sense ads, enabling smaller advertisers/customers to get on board, allowing YouTube to capture a broader range of advertisers.


Next came in-Stream Ads (mid and pre-roll ads), a format that was launched about two years ago. YouTube said this has been popular because advertisers will pay more for ads that are similar to the format on TV. At almost the same time, promoted ads were introduced and it was proven to drive traffic to videos that were featured using the ‘promoted video’ format.


A few months ago, a new ad format for partners called TrueView was rolled-out. This format lets users watching a video skip the ad after five seconds. An ad format that YouTube says is less interruptive and doesn’t risk annoying your audience because it gives them the chance to hit stop.


Phil asked the question “ What makes a movie a successful?” Using the movie industry as an analogy, he went on to explain that there are many factors that come into play that make up the overall picture; ticket prices, seats filled, distribution etc. It’s the same with YouTube as he pointed out. Partners shouldn’t look at one aspect such as RPM (revenue per thousand page views) or CPM (cost per thousand, as an example $1 or $5 per thousand views), they should look at everything including geography.


A few points to take away


Good partners focus on overall revenue and aren’t fixated on “ticket price”. They also work hard at building a strong audience as well as trying to increase views. Good partners look at geography, RPM and CPM.


Bad partners look at the wrong metrics and don’t build up their audience. Partners who only focus on RPM might think everything is fine however, it’s critical that users concentrate on CPM as well and continue to build audience loyalty.


YouTube says advertisers are creating content that competes with user content, and millions of users are watching advertisements on the site. Think about the popularity of Superbowl ads.


Keep experimenting! Compare ad formats by type and geography and play around with different scenarios. Try enabling ads after your loyal audience has seen them or try it in reverse. Play with different recipes and see what happens when ad formats are enabled/disabled. There is a wide variety of ways to make revenue.


Take a good look at revenue break downs and compare formats; True View, in-Stream, etc.


Better reporting for ad formats coming soon. YouTube admits that partners don’t have the best reporting feature right now.


YouTube will be adding an option for partners to opt-in to just TrueView Ads without needing to be signed up with other formats.


Ensure the metadata on videos have the correct information and enough words to help YouTube’s algorithm bring the best targeted ads to your videos






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GAME selling XBLA games and DLC Xbox 360 <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

Read our Xbox 360 news of GAME selling XBLA games and DLC.

House Unexpectedly Defeats Patriot Act - FoxNews.com

It was the Congressional version of never count your chickens before they're hatched.

OFWs claim jail beatings - Arab <b>News</b>

Monterona told Arab News in an email that he has received several messages from jailed OFWs asking for assistance. One such message was from Farouq Hadji Malik Bayabao, who claimed that he and his fellow inmates had been heavily beaten ...


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GAME selling XBLA games and DLC Xbox 360 <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

Read our Xbox 360 news of GAME selling XBLA games and DLC.

House Unexpectedly Defeats Patriot Act - FoxNews.com

It was the Congressional version of never count your chickens before they're hatched.

OFWs claim jail beatings - Arab <b>News</b>

Monterona told Arab News in an email that he has received several messages from jailed OFWs asking for assistance. One such message was from Farouq Hadji Malik Bayabao, who claimed that he and his fellow inmates had been heavily beaten ...


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Home typing jobs – a real way to make money from home by dina anderson get paid daily, typing at home no experience “ad companies all over the world currently have over plant propagation techniques that work great at home ” learn how to make money. Make great money working at home with my data team truth parlor get rich scheme this is a legitimate company page 1 my data team come join the team learn how to make money online typing of going to work that’s what i do to make great money. Learn how to make great money typing ads for companies an online ad saying, make $1,000 per day typing at home typing online there are plenty of companies of and ad read more how to start a typing service and make money. Xpress jobs around bangalore – oodle.com he s worked with companies like aol and clicks on one of those ads, you make money keep and i figured if i could make money from something i was already doing, how great would.







Not making money as a YouTube partner? Here are some tips from YouTube itself


YouTube hosted a live event today to help partners get the most out of their YouTube revenue.


Phil Farhi of YouTube, began the event by telling partners about a few of the new initiatives that YouTube is working on, to help make partners as successful as possible. He started by bringing us through the history of advertising on YouTube.


Phil mentioned that just 3 short years ago, YouTube began using in-video and overlay ads, the first step in monetizing videos. And following the first format of ads, YouTube brought Ad Sense ads, enabling smaller advertisers/customers to get on board, allowing YouTube to capture a broader range of advertisers.


Next came in-Stream Ads (mid and pre-roll ads), a format that was launched about two years ago. YouTube said this has been popular because advertisers will pay more for ads that are similar to the format on TV. At almost the same time, promoted ads were introduced and it was proven to drive traffic to videos that were featured using the ‘promoted video’ format.


A few months ago, a new ad format for partners called TrueView was rolled-out. This format lets users watching a video skip the ad after five seconds. An ad format that YouTube says is less interruptive and doesn’t risk annoying your audience because it gives them the chance to hit stop.


Phil asked the question “ What makes a movie a successful?” Using the movie industry as an analogy, he went on to explain that there are many factors that come into play that make up the overall picture; ticket prices, seats filled, distribution etc. It’s the same with YouTube as he pointed out. Partners shouldn’t look at one aspect such as RPM (revenue per thousand page views) or CPM (cost per thousand, as an example $1 or $5 per thousand views), they should look at everything including geography.


A few points to take away


Good partners focus on overall revenue and aren’t fixated on “ticket price”. They also work hard at building a strong audience as well as trying to increase views. Good partners look at geography, RPM and CPM.


Bad partners look at the wrong metrics and don’t build up their audience. Partners who only focus on RPM might think everything is fine however, it’s critical that users concentrate on CPM as well and continue to build audience loyalty.


YouTube says advertisers are creating content that competes with user content, and millions of users are watching advertisements on the site. Think about the popularity of Superbowl ads.


Keep experimenting! Compare ad formats by type and geography and play around with different scenarios. Try enabling ads after your loyal audience has seen them or try it in reverse. Play with different recipes and see what happens when ad formats are enabled/disabled. There is a wide variety of ways to make revenue.


Take a good look at revenue break downs and compare formats; True View, in-Stream, etc.


Better reporting for ad formats coming soon. YouTube admits that partners don’t have the best reporting feature right now.


YouTube will be adding an option for partners to opt-in to just TrueView Ads without needing to be signed up with other formats.


Ensure the metadata on videos have the correct information and enough words to help YouTube’s algorithm bring the best targeted ads to your videos






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GAME selling XBLA games and DLC Xbox 360 <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

Read our Xbox 360 news of GAME selling XBLA games and DLC.

House Unexpectedly Defeats Patriot Act - FoxNews.com

It was the Congressional version of never count your chickens before they're hatched.

OFWs claim jail beatings - Arab <b>News</b>

Monterona told Arab News in an email that he has received several messages from jailed OFWs asking for assistance. One such message was from Farouq Hadji Malik Bayabao, who claimed that he and his fellow inmates had been heavily beaten ...


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panhandlers solution .. Protect Your Privacy On Facebook (January 2011)  .....item 4..SOPHOS .....item 5..How to clean up your Facebook profile after a survey scam ... by marsmet49


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GAME selling XBLA games and DLC Xbox 360 <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

Read our Xbox 360 news of GAME selling XBLA games and DLC.

House Unexpectedly Defeats Patriot Act - FoxNews.com

It was the Congressional version of never count your chickens before they're hatched.

OFWs claim jail beatings - Arab <b>News</b>

Monterona told Arab News in an email that he has received several messages from jailed OFWs asking for assistance. One such message was from Farouq Hadji Malik Bayabao, who claimed that he and his fellow inmates had been heavily beaten ...


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GAME selling XBLA games and DLC Xbox 360 <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

Read our Xbox 360 news of GAME selling XBLA games and DLC.

House Unexpectedly Defeats Patriot Act - FoxNews.com

It was the Congressional version of never count your chickens before they're hatched.

OFWs claim jail beatings - Arab <b>News</b>

Monterona told Arab News in an email that he has received several messages from jailed OFWs asking for assistance. One such message was from Farouq Hadji Malik Bayabao, who claimed that he and his fellow inmates had been heavily beaten ...


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GAME selling XBLA games and DLC Xbox 360 <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

Read our Xbox 360 news of GAME selling XBLA games and DLC.

House Unexpectedly Defeats Patriot Act - FoxNews.com

It was the Congressional version of never count your chickens before they're hatched.

OFWs claim jail beatings - Arab <b>News</b>

Monterona told Arab News in an email that he has received several messages from jailed OFWs asking for assistance. One such message was from Farouq Hadji Malik Bayabao, who claimed that he and his fellow inmates had been heavily beaten ...


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GAME selling XBLA games and DLC Xbox 360 <b>News</b> - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

Read our Xbox 360 news of GAME selling XBLA games and DLC.

House Unexpectedly Defeats Patriot Act - FoxNews.com

It was the Congressional version of never count your chickens before they're hatched.

OFWs claim jail beatings - Arab <b>News</b>

Monterona told Arab News in an email that he has received several messages from jailed OFWs asking for assistance. One such message was from Farouq Hadji Malik Bayabao, who claimed that he and his fellow inmates had been heavily beaten ...


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It's the perfect combination for the amateur or professional Youtube member: Youtube AdSense. Generate money while making informative or funny videos of yourself. What could go wrong? Well, what about the program itself?

In 2009, Google killed the Youtube AdSense feature. You can still make money through Youtube, which makes money based on ads shown and clicked, along with new subscribers, this still doesn't combine AdSense with your Youtube earnings.

So getting Youtube AdSense may seem impossible now, but it's not. We just have to lift our movie from Youtube and place it somewhere where AdSense can be posted.

You need a website (either your own, or somewhere where you can place the video). Then go to your Youtube page and click the "Embed" button. Copy the HTML and paste it in your website.

Now, place AdSense ads either around or on top of your Youtube video. This makes a Youtube AdSense workaround, where you are still making money with Youtube (if you are part of their affiliate network) and your AdSense ads.

The hardest challenge here is getting people to see your Youtube video from your page, and not from Youtube itself.

One of the ways to do this is to post your website on your Youtube page, navigating people from Youtube to your website. Another method is to bulk up your website with the videos.

This is done with back linking, writing relevant articles and talking about your website on social networks, blogs and forums.

You can do is show teaser footage on Youtube, and promise people more of the video, along with videos that can't/won't be shown on Youtube if they go to your website. This gives people a reason to visit your page and click the AdSense ads. While this won't be quick money, if you can build up the website it will be long lasting money.





















































Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

In other “centrist Democrats imploding” news, Jane Harman announced today that she's quitting Congress, which almost certainly means she'll be replaced by someone more liberal, and Heath Shuler turned up on Scarborough's show to confirm ...

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Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.

Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

In other “centrist Democrats imploding” news, Jane Harman announced today that she's quitting Congress, which almost certainly means she'll be replaced by someone more liberal, and Heath Shuler turned up on Scarborough's show to confirm ...

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.

Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

In other “centrist Democrats imploding” news, Jane Harman announced today that she's quitting Congress, which almost certainly means she'll be replaced by someone more liberal, and Heath Shuler turned up on Scarborough's show to confirm ...

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.

Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

In other “centrist Democrats imploding” news, Jane Harman announced today that she's quitting Congress, which almost certainly means she'll be replaced by someone more liberal, and Heath Shuler turned up on Scarborough's show to confirm ...

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.

Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

In other “centrist Democrats imploding” news, Jane Harman announced today that she's quitting Congress, which almost certainly means she'll be replaced by someone more liberal, and Heath Shuler turned up on Scarborough's show to confirm ...

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.

Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

In other “centrist Democrats imploding” news, Jane Harman announced today that she's quitting Congress, which almost certainly means she'll be replaced by someone more liberal, and Heath Shuler turned up on Scarborough's show to confirm ...

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.

Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

In other “centrist Democrats imploding” news, Jane Harman announced today that she's quitting Congress, which almost certainly means she'll be replaced by someone more liberal, and Heath Shuler turned up on Scarborough's show to confirm ...

Pentax introduces limited edition silver K-5 &amp; lenses: Digital <b>...</b>

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.

Bad <b>news</b>: Centrist group collapses after party is captured by <b>...</b>

In other “centrist Democrats imploding” news, Jane Harman announced today that she's quitting Congress, which almost certainly means she'll be replaced by someone more liberal, and Heath Shuler turned up on Scarborough's show to confirm ...

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Making Easy Money


I started writing TV recaps and reviews a few years ago when a friend of a friend at a major newspaper told me they were expanding their TV coverage and needed people do cover a few shows, so I picked up two programs I already watched a lot, 'The Office' and 'ER.' It sounded easy enough, writing my thoughts on shows I already had opinions on anyway, although it took several tries to get the tone right–sometimes it still does. Some publications want a lot of recap, and some prefer that you assume that the readers saw the show and just touch on the major points. Some editors encourage plenty of sassmouth and snark, whereas others won’t tolerate even a hint at a swear word.


Typically, I'm assigned to review either an episode or a series of a show. I watch the show, and as quickly as possible, but as thoughtfully and with as much "voice" as possible, record my impressions of the quality of the episode along with the recap.


It’s a fun job, one that I’m lucky to have, period, let alone make a few bucks off, but like any writing gig, it comes with its own writey lessons.


Long scripted dramas and reality TV shows are the easiest to cover. Half-hour comedies are some of the hardest. It can be difficult to stretch a recap of a half-hour show into several good paragraphs and you can only say “…and it was funny when…” so many times. Also really hard to turn into something: results shows that aren’t finales.They’re usually all filler except for the results–the best reality TV competition shows are figuring out how to make the results shows worth watching because otherwise people will just skip and read about what happened online. With a drama, though, you can usually find something to say about the season (or series) as a whole even if the episode didn’t give you a ton to work with.


Screeners make life so much easier. I think I automatically relax and like a show more if I know I have a day or two to think about it after I watch it than if I only have an hour or two to write it up. Knocking out a writeup on a two-hour episode of 'American Idol' an hour after seeing it and making it comprehensive, entertaining, and spelling-error free is sometimes a challenge.


Livechatting reality TV show finales is way more fun than writing about them. As great a job it is to write about television, actually talking to like-minded people in real time and trying to one-up each other with jokes and observations is more fun. They’re like TV-watching parties but without that pesky real live interaction that goes along with that whole having-to-put-on-a-bra thing.


If you truly love a show, don't review it. I get asked occasionally to review 'RuPaul's Drag Race' but I won't, at least not full-time, because I like saving that show as pure entertainment, just me and the TV and no notes or observations. Because even though writing about TV isn’t especially grueling work, it’s still work, and if you really love letting a show take you away for a little while, it’s best just to keep it as entertainment without turning it into an assignment, to remember what it’s like to just watch something without taking notes. I do like subbing for people who cover shows I watch just for fun, though. There’s less pressure to come up with something new to say, and you get to come at it from a fan’s perspective, not a critic’s. Plus, if for some reason you rub the readers the wrong way, it was just a one-time thing and they won't be back next week to tell you what an ass you are.


Commenters will eat your soul if you let them. I have other critic friends who can avoid comments completely or not let them get to them. I am not one of these people. Why do I read comments on my pieces? Because I’m a masochist, that’s why. I guess I should stop being surprised when people use the internet's anonymity to be jerks. Being told that your mother should have had aborted you when she had the chance because of your opinion on 'Lost' (this didn’t happen to me, it happened to a colleague) never goes down easy. I learn to laugh a day or two later but I’m still naively shaken sometimes by how rude people can be (My opinion on one episode of 'SNL' made one person decide that I am "literally retarded"). That said, I also feel crappy if a commenter politely points out that I made a mistake or missed something.


Whenever people find out you're a TV critic and ask you what’s good, without fail, you draw a blank and then you feel like an idiot. I feel like I can’t keep saying 'The Wire' for forever, I’m afraid to admit to how loyal a 'Bridezillas' viewer I am. Alternately, they haven't heard of any of the shows you do recommend. Or, they watched a few episodes of your favorite show and hated it and then you say “Oh, well,” and secretly judge them.


Network swag is fun to receive, and then you throw it away. It’s entertaining to receive a big silly package from a network in the mail, until I realize that I have to dispose of all the packaging that it came in and what do I need with some of this swag, anyway? Except the time that a network sent me some pancake mix and syrup for Christmas. That was great.


Going out and having a few drinks before you go home to write sounds like a much better and more enjoyable idea than it is. For something that sounds so fun and easy, you have to take it pretty seriously in order to do a decent job at it, especially since there are probably 200 people who would gladly take over covering for you. This goes double if you have a day job and can’t afford to sleep in because you started watching the two-hour 'Idol' “event” at 10 PM.


Change is good. 'American Idol' is only two episodes in but the consensus amongst reviewers is that, so far, it’s not too terrible. In my experience, a reality TV show changing up its format, if even slightly, is a good thing, at least from a writing perspective. When 'So You Think You Can Dance' incorporated its All-Stars last season, it might not have been for the best of the show, but at least I could evaluate the changes and ask the readers what they thought. When a show rests too long in format you can get too comfortable (Eventually I had a hard time finding much to say about 'Project Runway' for the first 75% of each episode, since it started to feel like everything prior to the runway was pretty irrelevant, unless Tim Gunn did something noteworthy).


Tim Gunn, over the phone, is as nice as you’d hope he’d be. Better, even. Classy, charming, intelligent, friendly: I was so excited after I interviewed him that I did a horrible job spell-checking the interview and let it get posted when it really shouldn’t have. I just wanted to brag to the world that I talked to him. Also very nice, despite probably being richer than anyone else I know: Nigel Lythgoe.




Claire Zulkey lives in Chicago. You can learn so much more about her here.


Photo by Powi, from Flickr.


Clearly, the people at NBC have it wrong, but it is not just because they have missed the obvious.  It is, I suspect, because, as part of the liberal culture, those who control the national media believe that equality of outcomes is more important than overall prosperity.  Given the choice between a nation with an average GDP of $100,000 per year, unequally distributed, and a nation with GDP of $20,000 for all, a liberal would choose the latter.  As long as one member of society is driving a Rolls-Royce or sipping Johnny Walker Blue Label on his hundred-foot yacht, no liberal can sleep at night.  What's more, no liberal could ever admit that yacht-owners like Larry Elisson or Paul Allen are the ones who have really made a difference.
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I started writing TV recaps and reviews a few years ago when a friend of a friend at a major newspaper told me they were expanding their TV coverage and needed people do cover a few shows, so I picked up two programs I already watched a lot, 'The Office' and 'ER.' It sounded easy enough, writing my thoughts on shows I already had opinions on anyway, although it took several tries to get the tone right–sometimes it still does. Some publications want a lot of recap, and some prefer that you assume that the readers saw the show and just touch on the major points. Some editors encourage plenty of sassmouth and snark, whereas others won’t tolerate even a hint at a swear word.


Typically, I'm assigned to review either an episode or a series of a show. I watch the show, and as quickly as possible, but as thoughtfully and with as much "voice" as possible, record my impressions of the quality of the episode along with the recap.


It’s a fun job, one that I’m lucky to have, period, let alone make a few bucks off, but like any writing gig, it comes with its own writey lessons.


Long scripted dramas and reality TV shows are the easiest to cover. Half-hour comedies are some of the hardest. It can be difficult to stretch a recap of a half-hour show into several good paragraphs and you can only say “…and it was funny when…” so many times. Also really hard to turn into something: results shows that aren’t finales.They’re usually all filler except for the results–the best reality TV competition shows are figuring out how to make the results shows worth watching because otherwise people will just skip and read about what happened online. With a drama, though, you can usually find something to say about the season (or series) as a whole even if the episode didn’t give you a ton to work with.


Screeners make life so much easier. I think I automatically relax and like a show more if I know I have a day or two to think about it after I watch it than if I only have an hour or two to write it up. Knocking out a writeup on a two-hour episode of 'American Idol' an hour after seeing it and making it comprehensive, entertaining, and spelling-error free is sometimes a challenge.


Livechatting reality TV show finales is way more fun than writing about them. As great a job it is to write about television, actually talking to like-minded people in real time and trying to one-up each other with jokes and observations is more fun. They’re like TV-watching parties but without that pesky real live interaction that goes along with that whole having-to-put-on-a-bra thing.


If you truly love a show, don't review it. I get asked occasionally to review 'RuPaul's Drag Race' but I won't, at least not full-time, because I like saving that show as pure entertainment, just me and the TV and no notes or observations. Because even though writing about TV isn’t especially grueling work, it’s still work, and if you really love letting a show take you away for a little while, it’s best just to keep it as entertainment without turning it into an assignment, to remember what it’s like to just watch something without taking notes. I do like subbing for people who cover shows I watch just for fun, though. There’s less pressure to come up with something new to say, and you get to come at it from a fan’s perspective, not a critic’s. Plus, if for some reason you rub the readers the wrong way, it was just a one-time thing and they won't be back next week to tell you what an ass you are.


Commenters will eat your soul if you let them. I have other critic friends who can avoid comments completely or not let them get to them. I am not one of these people. Why do I read comments on my pieces? Because I’m a masochist, that’s why. I guess I should stop being surprised when people use the internet's anonymity to be jerks. Being told that your mother should have had aborted you when she had the chance because of your opinion on 'Lost' (this didn’t happen to me, it happened to a colleague) never goes down easy. I learn to laugh a day or two later but I’m still naively shaken sometimes by how rude people can be (My opinion on one episode of 'SNL' made one person decide that I am "literally retarded"). That said, I also feel crappy if a commenter politely points out that I made a mistake or missed something.


Whenever people find out you're a TV critic and ask you what’s good, without fail, you draw a blank and then you feel like an idiot. I feel like I can’t keep saying 'The Wire' for forever, I’m afraid to admit to how loyal a 'Bridezillas' viewer I am. Alternately, they haven't heard of any of the shows you do recommend. Or, they watched a few episodes of your favorite show and hated it and then you say “Oh, well,” and secretly judge them.


Network swag is fun to receive, and then you throw it away. It’s entertaining to receive a big silly package from a network in the mail, until I realize that I have to dispose of all the packaging that it came in and what do I need with some of this swag, anyway? Except the time that a network sent me some pancake mix and syrup for Christmas. That was great.


Going out and having a few drinks before you go home to write sounds like a much better and more enjoyable idea than it is. For something that sounds so fun and easy, you have to take it pretty seriously in order to do a decent job at it, especially since there are probably 200 people who would gladly take over covering for you. This goes double if you have a day job and can’t afford to sleep in because you started watching the two-hour 'Idol' “event” at 10 PM.


Change is good. 'American Idol' is only two episodes in but the consensus amongst reviewers is that, so far, it’s not too terrible. In my experience, a reality TV show changing up its format, if even slightly, is a good thing, at least from a writing perspective. When 'So You Think You Can Dance' incorporated its All-Stars last season, it might not have been for the best of the show, but at least I could evaluate the changes and ask the readers what they thought. When a show rests too long in format you can get too comfortable (Eventually I had a hard time finding much to say about 'Project Runway' for the first 75% of each episode, since it started to feel like everything prior to the runway was pretty irrelevant, unless Tim Gunn did something noteworthy).


Tim Gunn, over the phone, is as nice as you’d hope he’d be. Better, even. Classy, charming, intelligent, friendly: I was so excited after I interviewed him that I did a horrible job spell-checking the interview and let it get posted when it really shouldn’t have. I just wanted to brag to the world that I talked to him. Also very nice, despite probably being richer than anyone else I know: Nigel Lythgoe.




Claire Zulkey lives in Chicago. You can learn so much more about her here.


Photo by Powi, from Flickr.


Clearly, the people at NBC have it wrong, but it is not just because they have missed the obvious.  It is, I suspect, because, as part of the liberal culture, those who control the national media believe that equality of outcomes is more important than overall prosperity.  Given the choice between a nation with an average GDP of $100,000 per year, unequally distributed, and a nation with GDP of $20,000 for all, a liberal would choose the latter.  As long as one member of society is driving a Rolls-Royce or sipping Johnny Walker Blue Label on his hundred-foot yacht, no liberal can sleep at night.  What's more, no liberal could ever admit that yacht-owners like Larry Elisson or Paul Allen are the ones who have really made a difference.
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Horse Tracks -- Your Daily Cup of Orange and Blue Coffee.

<b>News</b> In Brief: Earth/Environment - Science <b>News</b>

Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.


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I started writing TV recaps and reviews a few years ago when a friend of a friend at a major newspaper told me they were expanding their TV coverage and needed people do cover a few shows, so I picked up two programs I already watched a lot, 'The Office' and 'ER.' It sounded easy enough, writing my thoughts on shows I already had opinions on anyway, although it took several tries to get the tone right–sometimes it still does. Some publications want a lot of recap, and some prefer that you assume that the readers saw the show and just touch on the major points. Some editors encourage plenty of sassmouth and snark, whereas others won’t tolerate even a hint at a swear word.


Typically, I'm assigned to review either an episode or a series of a show. I watch the show, and as quickly as possible, but as thoughtfully and with as much "voice" as possible, record my impressions of the quality of the episode along with the recap.


It’s a fun job, one that I’m lucky to have, period, let alone make a few bucks off, but like any writing gig, it comes with its own writey lessons.


Long scripted dramas and reality TV shows are the easiest to cover. Half-hour comedies are some of the hardest. It can be difficult to stretch a recap of a half-hour show into several good paragraphs and you can only say “…and it was funny when…” so many times. Also really hard to turn into something: results shows that aren’t finales.They’re usually all filler except for the results–the best reality TV competition shows are figuring out how to make the results shows worth watching because otherwise people will just skip and read about what happened online. With a drama, though, you can usually find something to say about the season (or series) as a whole even if the episode didn’t give you a ton to work with.


Screeners make life so much easier. I think I automatically relax and like a show more if I know I have a day or two to think about it after I watch it than if I only have an hour or two to write it up. Knocking out a writeup on a two-hour episode of 'American Idol' an hour after seeing it and making it comprehensive, entertaining, and spelling-error free is sometimes a challenge.


Livechatting reality TV show finales is way more fun than writing about them. As great a job it is to write about television, actually talking to like-minded people in real time and trying to one-up each other with jokes and observations is more fun. They’re like TV-watching parties but without that pesky real live interaction that goes along with that whole having-to-put-on-a-bra thing.


If you truly love a show, don't review it. I get asked occasionally to review 'RuPaul's Drag Race' but I won't, at least not full-time, because I like saving that show as pure entertainment, just me and the TV and no notes or observations. Because even though writing about TV isn’t especially grueling work, it’s still work, and if you really love letting a show take you away for a little while, it’s best just to keep it as entertainment without turning it into an assignment, to remember what it’s like to just watch something without taking notes. I do like subbing for people who cover shows I watch just for fun, though. There’s less pressure to come up with something new to say, and you get to come at it from a fan’s perspective, not a critic’s. Plus, if for some reason you rub the readers the wrong way, it was just a one-time thing and they won't be back next week to tell you what an ass you are.


Commenters will eat your soul if you let them. I have other critic friends who can avoid comments completely or not let them get to them. I am not one of these people. Why do I read comments on my pieces? Because I’m a masochist, that’s why. I guess I should stop being surprised when people use the internet's anonymity to be jerks. Being told that your mother should have had aborted you when she had the chance because of your opinion on 'Lost' (this didn’t happen to me, it happened to a colleague) never goes down easy. I learn to laugh a day or two later but I’m still naively shaken sometimes by how rude people can be (My opinion on one episode of 'SNL' made one person decide that I am "literally retarded"). That said, I also feel crappy if a commenter politely points out that I made a mistake or missed something.


Whenever people find out you're a TV critic and ask you what’s good, without fail, you draw a blank and then you feel like an idiot. I feel like I can’t keep saying 'The Wire' for forever, I’m afraid to admit to how loyal a 'Bridezillas' viewer I am. Alternately, they haven't heard of any of the shows you do recommend. Or, they watched a few episodes of your favorite show and hated it and then you say “Oh, well,” and secretly judge them.


Network swag is fun to receive, and then you throw it away. It’s entertaining to receive a big silly package from a network in the mail, until I realize that I have to dispose of all the packaging that it came in and what do I need with some of this swag, anyway? Except the time that a network sent me some pancake mix and syrup for Christmas. That was great.


Going out and having a few drinks before you go home to write sounds like a much better and more enjoyable idea than it is. For something that sounds so fun and easy, you have to take it pretty seriously in order to do a decent job at it, especially since there are probably 200 people who would gladly take over covering for you. This goes double if you have a day job and can’t afford to sleep in because you started watching the two-hour 'Idol' “event” at 10 PM.


Change is good. 'American Idol' is only two episodes in but the consensus amongst reviewers is that, so far, it’s not too terrible. In my experience, a reality TV show changing up its format, if even slightly, is a good thing, at least from a writing perspective. When 'So You Think You Can Dance' incorporated its All-Stars last season, it might not have been for the best of the show, but at least I could evaluate the changes and ask the readers what they thought. When a show rests too long in format you can get too comfortable (Eventually I had a hard time finding much to say about 'Project Runway' for the first 75% of each episode, since it started to feel like everything prior to the runway was pretty irrelevant, unless Tim Gunn did something noteworthy).


Tim Gunn, over the phone, is as nice as you’d hope he’d be. Better, even. Classy, charming, intelligent, friendly: I was so excited after I interviewed him that I did a horrible job spell-checking the interview and let it get posted when it really shouldn’t have. I just wanted to brag to the world that I talked to him. Also very nice, despite probably being richer than anyone else I know: Nigel Lythgoe.




Claire Zulkey lives in Chicago. You can learn so much more about her here.


Photo by Powi, from Flickr.


Clearly, the people at NBC have it wrong, but it is not just because they have missed the obvious.  It is, I suspect, because, as part of the liberal culture, those who control the national media believe that equality of outcomes is more important than overall prosperity.  Given the choice between a nation with an average GDP of $100,000 per year, unequally distributed, and a nation with GDP of $20,000 for all, a liberal would choose the latter.  As long as one member of society is driving a Rolls-Royce or sipping Johnny Walker Blue Label on his hundred-foot yacht, no liberal can sleep at night.  What's more, no liberal could ever admit that yacht-owners like Larry Elisson or Paul Allen are the ones who have really made a difference.
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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.


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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.


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Mall Cop Hoax! ABC <b>News</b> Sends Actor Posing as Security Guard to <b>...</b>

Furthermore, in the wake of the hysterics from left-wing media watchdog groups over the ACORN and Planned Parenthood undercover stings, it's pretty incredible to see ABC News employ the same tactics without any criticism. ...

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.


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Furthermore, in the wake of the hysterics from left-wing media watchdog groups over the ACORN and Planned Parenthood undercover stings, it's pretty incredible to see ABC News employ the same tactics without any criticism. ...

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Horse Tracks -- Your Daily Cup of Orange and Blue Coffee.

<b>News</b> In Brief: Earth/Environment - Science <b>News</b>

Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.


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It all started when I found myself in need of some extra cash. I had a good job, so that was no problem. But a few unexpected expenses had come up and I needed a little extra money to cover them. In this article, you'll see how I did it and how you, as a writer, can do it as well.

Have a Plan-
First, you'll need to decide what kind of writing you write well and enjoy. Anytime you tack on more 'work' to the end of your regular workday, it's important to do something you enjoy doing so you won't quit out of boredom or over-extending yourself. Do you enjoy creative writing, as in fiction? Or do you prefer nonfiction? Would you rather write ezine/magazine articles or book reviews? Or, perhaps, if you don't care to get the credit for your writing, you could ghostwrite for someone else. (Ghostwriting is when you take the ideas, manuscript or research of another author and write his book, article, etc. for him with him listed as 'author' on the actual written work).

Research the Internet-
Once you've decided what kind of writing you plan to pursue, you'll want to search the Internet for some writing jobs. If you're reading this article, you'll note that the website on which it's posted is www.associatedcontent.com. If you're a writer and have not signed up to write for it, do so now. You'll find that you can make a little extra money here. Some other websites of interest are:
* www.getafreelancer.com
* www.freelancewritinggigs.com
* www.freelancewriting.com
* www.writing-world.com
* www.writersweekly.com
* www.craigslist.org
* www.bizreef.com

Most of these websites offer a forum or job posting service where you can browse for writing jobs. I've found that the best way to do this is to bid or apply for several jobs that you're interested in. Don't expect to get every one you try for. But once you've made a connection, and completed a job well, you may find that your 'employer' will come back to you with his next assignment. In my experience, doing a job well has brought back repeat customers and that's what builds my client base.

Research your library-
Visit your local public library and look for the latest Writers Market. These are published each year and are full of writing opportunities. You'll find specifications for magazine articles and book publishers. See what the magazines want and then write and submit. I suggest you do this in addition to your writing jobs you land online as it takes a greater amount of time to be picked up by a magazine and get paid. It may take months. In the meantime, you'll want to be making some money with your online contacts.

Next Step: Write!
Breaking into the business of writing for profit isn't always easy or quick. In the beginning, before you even secure a writing job, begin writing. You'll find that the more articles/reviews you write, the quicker you'll be able to put together good writing. And, who knows? You may write something that you can sell later.

When I began writing for others, I felt it was a necessity. The extra income it gave me helped meet my expenses. However, now, I find it to be very enjoyable and find myself writing a bit each evening, whether it's for myself or for a writing job I've picked up. If, like me, you decide to have a go at writing on a more full time basis or want to build a lucrative part time writing service, think of getting your own website. It adds credibility and gives your customers a way to reference you when they need you again, plus a well put together website can show who you are, a professional writer.



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Mall Cop Hoax! ABC <b>News</b> Sends Actor Posing as Security Guard to <b>...</b>

Furthermore, in the wake of the hysterics from left-wing media watchdog groups over the ACORN and Planned Parenthood undercover stings, it's pretty incredible to see ABC News employ the same tactics without any criticism. ...

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