Maria Shriver has a foothold in all the major social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, WordPress and, presumably, whatever promises to be the next best thing. Media and communications are her career. But how she uses them is worth noting. There are enough voices on the internet going for cheap attention. Expensive attention, as [...]
#FreedomIsBlogging
Originally published in April 2012 in Blog
Show me the money ~ Part 3
Originally published in March 2012 in Blog
I feel a change in the air. No, not spring. This may be even better than raindrops on tulips and girls in white dresses. The first sign of climate change for freelance writers is emerging for real, and, in a very unexpected twist, the future looks bright. Really bright. After four decades of earning a [...]
Thanks for tuning in
Originally published in February 2012 in Blog
When I started this blog, I didn’t know what would happen, what I would say or who would listen. I still don’t. Last spring, I noticed a spike in my traffic from Québec and it took a while before I realized my posts were lighting up computer screens in dorm rooms at Bishop’s University in the Eastern [...]
Show me the money: Part deux
Originally published in January 2012 in Blog
For all you old-school print journalists still wondering how to make a buck from blogging, here’s how it works: Editor sees your McSweeney’s post reposted on Facebook (you’re not even friends … yet), and says, “Oh my God, I own a print of “Poster Making” (a.k.a. the FUCK OFF poster). She purchased it at the [...]
It can happen to you
Originally published in January 2012 in Blog
VIEWERS POUNCE ON CRUNCHY CONTENT For those of you who still haven’t tried letting the internet do your networking for you, here’s an edited list of some of the organizations who came knocking at my door yesterday after I posted this. BTW, I crested at 870 hits and 1,100 pageviews. List courtesy of Google [...]
In conversation with Evan Jones
Originally published in May 2011 in Blog
2010 Roundup
Originally published in December 2010 in Blog
The scariest post to write My best posts are usually the scariest to write. I’ve found that the more scared I am about the content, the more likely I am to connect with my readers because we all struggle with the same stuff. But there’s a fine line between tacky confessionals and honest storytelling. Maybe [...]
It’s time for a survey
Originally published in July 2010 in Blog
Gary Shteyngart is a funny guy. His new book, Super Sad True Love Story, follows the obsessions and catastrophes of the information age, and I can’t wait to read it! In Garyland, “books are extinct, eternal life can be purchased by the elite, subways offer business class and see-through jeans are the latest fashion.” (hat [...]
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