I just signed up for National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo. In case you are not familiar with NaNoWriMo, which I will shorten to NaNo from here on out in order to save my Shift case from undo abuse, let me explain. NaNo is one month (November 2011, this year) during which writers [...]
Like many other online writers, I was intrigued by the recent buzz surrounding the implementation of an HTML tag that lets search engines, like Google, know who the author of a webpage is. The idea is that if someone is a good writer who publishes lots of useful and well written online content, then perhaps [...]
The Associated Press announced that they will be updating the AP Stylebook to reflect the “evolution” of the language from e-mail to email. Most of us freelance technology writer types have long since moved on from the out-of-date e-mail, but occasionally sticklers and editors conditioned to toe the AP Style line exactly, have required the [...]
Windows Live Writer was a surprising free utility offered by Microsoft as a way to post to multiple blogs with many of the modern conveniences of more powerful software like Microsoft Word, which the company killed off as a legitimate way to blog by having it produce garbage-filled HTML code. I still haven’t bothered to [...]
If you are going to earn money writing online, you are going to need a website. If you are going to have a website that attracts enough attention from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Altavista, and others to actually drive any traffic to your website, you are going to need a blog or other section of your [...]
As we mentioned earlier, Yahoo has taken on the task of producing a “style guide” for the Internet. Those of you who are already in the professional writing business know about the different writing styles out there. There is AP Style, which is based upon a book by AP called The Associated Press Stylebook. Then [...]
A handful of interesting articles worked their way through my RSS Reader this morning and I thought I would share some of them here for others who might also find them interesting for their freelance writing business. This list is not an endorsement of the content that is linked, which I may or may not [...]
Understanding copyright law is not easy. It certainly is not as easy as some people make it sound. The context, situation, and even media type all factor into how copyright applies, or does not apply.
In my ongoing saga for finding a good, stable webhost for my websites, I have found a new snag. HostGator web hosting comes recommended highly from A TON of different WordPress bloggers as not just a great web host, but a good WordPress web host. Only, here is the thing. It is now WAY after [...]
ArcticLlama is undertaking a major redesign and content update of our freelancing business website. Follow our progress through ups and (hopefully not many) downs.
Does a single WordPress installation use more memory that a user gets on a Dreamhost shared hosting account?
