Beyond the Rhetoric

It’s hump day. As has become a tradition here on Beyond the Rhetoric, that means it’s time to do the weekly roundup of interesting blog posts that I found around the Internet. Let’s get down to the speedlink. We start off with Tyler Ingram and his coverage of the Tour de White Rock cycling race. [...]

Ever since the Internet became such an important aspect of our daily lives, there has been a need for good quality web content. Blogs exploded onto the scene and they were quickly followed by professional blogs that operated not unlike conventional magazines. They gained paid staff, interns and editorial calendars. This rapid growth boded well [...]

There are ongoing debates about the value of a college education. Many people say that the piece of paper you get at the end of your four or five years isn’t worth much anymore, because nearly everyone has one. All you get is the burden of student loan debt, coupled with a crowded job market [...]

It is said that the average person will go through seven careers over the course of a lifetime. Given this, despite being in business for several years now, it’s quite possible that I will be in an entirely different line of work at some point down the line. As it stands, though, here I am [...]

While it wasn’t really my intention when I first drafted up the original blog post, this topic quickly emerged in the comment section in my Being Taken Seriously as a Freelancer piece. I can see how this tangential discussion point could emerge; I just didn’t foresee it at the time. Words hold powerful meanings and [...]