Freelance-ology: Should I bother?
A few weeks ago I declared that I would experiment with Helium.com as a freelance writing income model, under my hypothesis that content aggregators like Helium are not viable income sources for writers—and might encourage the demise of journalism’s integrity. When I first joined the debate over Helium last month, I found a muddled mess [...]
From Montgomery to Tehran: Three Steps to Protest Success
Iranian protesters could learn from the pre-tech techniques of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Unfortunately, many modern day protests are simply exercises in misguided indignation—blow off some steam, waste a considerable amount of posterboard, and then go home and forget about the issue. For example, here’s a photo I took of a random protest that popped [...]
GettingMarriedonLongIsland.com
This project included a site migration from Wordpress.com to a hosted domain where a previously designed page already existed. My tasks included migrating the site, optimizing for search engines, transferring affiliate ads, and creating a seamless integration with the original design work.
My First Obituary
I know, I know. That’s a golden title for a humor writer, teeming with comedic potential, but no funny stuff today. My mother passed away on Thursday, ending a long battle with ocular melanoma that metastasized in her liver. I wrote the following obituary, which was published in the Roswell Daily Record on Friday, 19 [...]
Freelance-ology: How to Stop Stalling and Start Freelancing
Step #1: Turn that Freelance Dream into Reality! For whatever reason—you were downsized, your family was upsized, or you grew an ulcer the size of the Astrodome and decided the 9-to-5 life was not for you—now you’re a member of the Gig Economy and hoping to scrape together enough small projects to score a Nut [...]
