I recently reported a minor traffic spike from a bookmark on Reddit, which rekindled my interest in social bookmarking sites. So imagine my excitement when I got an inbound referring link from StumbleUpon, which is one step better at number three in the social bookmarking rankings. “One of our members added your page to the Writing […]
Back to the grind this week, but just time to wonder what’s up with “video sharing site” Livingscoop.com. Like other journos, perhaps, I received an email invitation to “register my interest” in the site a few days ago. In slightly strangled English, it claims to be: A very good place for training, improving and to promote […]
The final part of four pillars of freelance success should be up on FleetStreetBlues today. Normal service on Freelance Unbound should be resumed next week…
Your third pillar of wisdom should be online at the fine FleetStreetBlues today. Meanwhile, I am enjoying art and other fine highbrow things in St Ives…
Still in Cornwall, still minimal internet access. But part two of four pillars of freelance success is over at FleetStreetBlues. Enjoy…
This is what I’m dealing with at the moment. It beats newsletters about hedge funds. This is Mevagissey harbour. It’s very picturesque…
Right now I’m in Cornwall, getting away from journalism, work and, given the lack of reliable internet access where I am, the modern world. But just so you don’t feel all neglected, you can pop over to Fleet Street Blues to read a series of guest posts by me. With luck, they should be running […]
Just because it’s Friday and I’m taking it easy, here’s a link to my newly published feature on prediction markets for Director magazine. It’s nice that I can start pointing to some reasonably high-profile material on the web in my portfolio. For some reason much of the rest of my work of the past two […]
To celebrate a tiny milestone in the progress of Freelance Unbound – the 100th post – here’s an item by a journalist who has gone over to the dark side and set up a site whose purpose is – gasp! – to make money from web media. Julia Scott left a newspaper job to set […]
Press Gazette reports on the Government’s determination to “sustain local journalism”. It’s all part of the government’s glorious five-year plan to secure Britain’s place at the forefront of the global digital economy – otherwise known as the Digital Britain report. Apparently, earnest culture secretary Andy Burnham said: “Citizens need content produced to high journalistic standards. The internet in […]