Verbal extremism in defense of civil liberties is no vice
My current boss is safe but my former boss is toast, if I ever get my hands on him. I’m referring of course to the guy who hired me to do copy-editing work for an alleged online encyclopedia that turned out to be a spam-writing outfit. (I had no idea those things were done on Internet assembly lines, did you?)
posted by Jennifer Abel at 5:58 PM
Jennifer Abel is an American writer who began her career in print media three minutes before the Internet killed the industry. After starting at a small Connecticut daily she moved to the Hartford Advocate, an alt-weekly where her journalistic coups included infiltrating a Furries convention and working on a phone sex line (which fired her six hours later). Since then she’s written for, or been reprinted in, dozens of print and web outlets, including Playboy, the Guardian, Salon, AlterNet, Mashable, the Daily Dot and pretty much every website with the words "cannabis" or "legalize it" in the title. Once, when she was young and naïve and needed the money, she unwittingly edited SEO copy for a spammer. However, in light of the spambot comments she’s deleted from her own blogs since then, she figures she’s more than repaid that particular karmic debt. Jennifer is currently looking for professional, non-spam writing jobs; interested editors are enthusiastically invited to e-mail her.
6 Comments:
I did click on some of those "links" earlier today and yesterday, but nothing happened. At least, I don't think anything happened. I didn't realize they weren't legitimate - I thought they were some foreigner's screwed-up attempt to post a link. One of them I copied and pasted into my browser's address bar to see where it would take me. It went to some search results page, so I'm not sure what to think. Probably my browser's search engine grabbed it and ran with it; it does that if a url is not a valid one.
I thought they were some foreigner's screwed-up attempt to post a link.
"Yeah..and I really didn't know what to expect when I saw 'bath house'...I just wanted a shower...really"-SOB
"Yeah..and I really didn't know what to expect when I saw 'bath house'...I just wanted a shower...really"-SOB
(Sigh) Obligations. Obligations. The things one must endure to live up to expectations. Ya see what happens when ya try ta be a "decent person" - d'ya see? :-)
But blog is great! Articles is interesting! Syntax are overrated!
I was just wondering, you mentioned positing your article here after it was taken down from the site. Given that it seems it's not coming down (and your own busy schedule) do you still intend to do so? If so would you be adding to it?
I'm not sure what's happening with the story in regard to the Advocate site, Wolf; usually stories stay online for about two months (though only on the homepage for a week or two). I'll still cut-and-paste it into my blog post of the same title in a week or two, but I don't think I can really change the story itself because of copyright issues.
If I can find the time it might be fun to write a blog post about my additional impressions and observations of the Furrycon, the things I had to leave out for space reasons.
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