Wordpress Theme Preview: Specimen

by Yvonne | April 15th, 2008 @ 12:41am | Permalink to "Wordpress Theme Preview: Specimen" | No Comments

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Advertising Offer from ZTMC, Inc: Rejected

by Yvonne | April 12th, 2008 @ 2:22am | Permalink to "Advertising Offer from ZTMC, Inc: Rejected" | No Comments

I recently received an e-mail from a company called ZTMC, Inc., asking if I was accepting advertising on this site. I am, and thus I began corresponding with one of their marketing managers. They wanted me to place four text links on every page of my site. These ads would rotate and I would be paid each month I displayed the ads.

I ultimately rejected their offer and here’s why.

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Is Blogging Bad for Your Health?

by Yvonne | April 6th, 2008 @ 4:04pm | Permalink to "Is Blogging Bad for Your Health?" | No Comments

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Wow. Digital-era sweatshop. Thanks, New York Times, for the vote of confidence (last I checked, three health incidents in a population of millions did not an epidemic make)!

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