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Today dose o' diatribe probably won't appeal to many people, but I'm writing it anyway.
Among the things I do to make financial Socket A properly meet financial Plug B is freelance. I write. Pick a topic. I've probably written about it and of more recent times I actually make money at it. Not GREAT money, but money. I freelance and ghost write articles for companies across the planet.
Chief among the freelance work these days is SEO - Search Engine Optimization. The object is to write an article that will vault a particular website to the top on search engine rankings. I'm very very very good at this as is my brother. Check us out at Facebook.
In writing these articles I often research the business the company is in. I look for news articles to get information.
There's the problem. Search engines are being clogged with the PR puff pieces I and many others write and the real news is getting buried deep, deep deep.
The stuff I write pays decent, yes, but the news content is close to zero. Sometimes it's even negative news content. In other words it sucks facts out of my brain, leaving a void behind. (Some of you will say it is impossible to create a void where one already existed, but hey.)
So to all those people who use search engine news feeds to do research, and I am one, part of me wants to apologize for packing the internet with idiocy. But the part that grins when I see a deposit to my account says "Go free market economics!"
F'dang.
The views in this blog are not those of people who can't think for themselves and rely on others to think for them. For that matter, the views expressed here may not be those of people who CAN think for themselves, but it comes extremely close.
Freelance writing is the only career I have these days and I like to eat. So yeah, "Go free market economics!"
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