It’s always a challenge when you have to write about a new topic. This week I’ve been writing about three topics: UK finance, paid membership sites and Beverley Hills cosmetic surgery. I knew something about UK finance – all those years at the Financial Times were not wasted. But I had to research the other two.
I was amazed by the potential of membership sites. It almost made me want to start one myself, but then I thought I would have to keep adding member-only content. I like blogging, because I can just put my stuff out there. No passwords to think about. So maybe I’m not ready for a membership site just yet, but all that residual income IS tempting.
As for the plastic surgery, I’ll tell you more about that another time, but there are some BIZARRE sites out there. Ewww!
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Getting sponsorship for your blog is a bit like ghostwriting. At the drop of a hat you could be asked to write about a subject you know absolutely nothing about. For example, when reading a press release from Epocrates Online about Augmentin, you could take the easy route and look it up on the Internet to see what the product actually does. If I were a doctor and used their service, I could download all the info onto my PDA, but I’m not, so I’ll just have to guess. With a name like that, it obviously boosts something, but that something could be anything. I like to think it might make my hair grow. Others might consider that it relates to boob size. Who knows, one day I might find out.
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Just found a good article on plagiarism. It describes how a piece of software called Instant Article Ghostwriter works:
PlagiarismToday » Instant Article Ghostwriter: Nickle & Dime Plagiarism
IAG, fundamentally, is a twist on the old content scrapers. However, rather than stealing all of the content from a single site, IAG scrapes a sentence or two from hundreds of sources and attempts to piece them back together in something resembling an article.
When I read this, I thought – AHA!. So that’s how they did it. I’ve seen my content in various forms on various sites and it always seemed a lot of trouble to go to.
Anyway, the site looked interesting, so I’ll check around and see what other gems are on it.
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