Beyond the Rhetoric

Thank goodness that the Internet is open. After all, it is because of the world wide web that I got into the business of freelance writing in the first place and I’m not entirely sure what I would do without it. And it is with that line of thought that we dive into this Internet-themed [...]

Every Wednesday, I share some posts from around the Internet that I thought were worth sharing. This is my way of giving back to the online community, so if you want some free link love, hit me up on Twitter on Tuesdays, as I usually put a call out for submissions. Let’s see what I [...]

Video blogging, video reviews, and other uses of online video are more popular than ever. If a picture is worth a thousand words and the standard video is 30 frames a second, you are effectively getting 1.8 million words a minute. (I’ll pause for a moment as you confirm my calculations.) That’s all well and [...]

Nearly every blog owner has had an experience with a scraper. As you may already know, scrapers are people (or bots) that “scrape” the content from your blog for publication on their own sites. This is clearly illegal and a violation of copyright. Yes, even if you only approach your blog as a hobby, you [...]