Jennifer Walker » 2009 » July

What is so hard??

My husband and I like coffee. We like the actual taste of it, not the taste of the sugar or whatever you put in it. Coffee and cream…hot or iced. That’s what we like. This doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to get, but the good folks who work at McDonald’s can’t seem [...]

Current Associated Content Review Time

I’ve heard of long waits for some people, but my Associated Content review time has been quite reasonable for the sparse pieces I’ve submitted lately…I submitted one on July 24th and got an offer today, the 28th–just four days later, including a weekend. I submitted one on the 15th and got an offer on the [...]

Everything you do is an article

The other day I was talking to Michy, and I said I needed software that would extract pictures from a PDF. She helped me find one, and it worked great. I was raving to her about how easy it was to use and did exactly what I wanted in seconds. “Sounds like an article,” she [...]

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family trees – Genealogy – Celebs – Collage – Morph

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family tree – Genealogy – Celebrity – Collage – Morph

Apple Encourages Copyright Infringement

Michy recently brought to my attention that there is an Apple iphone commercial that demonstrates its copy-and-paste functionality by showing a user copying a whole article from the web and pasting it into an email. This is ILLEGAL. For more information on why this is illegal, why you as a writer should be mad as [...]

No I’m not and no I don’t!

You’re reading an article on the Internet, and you suddenly find yourself starring in a hypothetical situation you could never imagine thinking to yourself. You think, “What in the name of Pete?” And then you think, “Wait a minute. I’d never do that, and I never say ‘What in the name of Pete!’” Somewhere along [...]

Why write for online content sites?

Sorry to those of you who commented on my last post that I haven’t responded–I’ve been out of town and didn’t have internet (*gasp* the torture!). A couple of the commenters questioned the usefulness of writing for online content sites, so I thought I’d use it as an excuse to make a new post. Why [...]

Associated Content vs Helium vs Suite101 vs Examiner vs Ehow

While I did not do any kind of official challenge to compare the various content sites I wrote for, I thought it would be valuable to compare the results of each one. I did not set out this month with the intention of doing this; I just tried to increase my production so I can [...]