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• Talk to a Publisher Every Tuesday

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:59 pm

  Tags: Get Paid, Get Published, How To Write A Novel

  As a Helium writer whose articles suggest a high interest in creative writing and literature, we wanted to let you know an exciting new program we've developed, called Helium's Book People Talk series. By participating in this Tuesday talk series, you will have a chance to meet publishers and get direct advice on questions like:

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• How to Fix Yahoo!: Building a Yahoo! Platform

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:09 am

  Tags: Read Write Web

  As part of our focus on Yahoo!'s next 100 days this week, I am going to dive into how I would go about fixing the company. Or at least starting along that path. According to comScore, Yahoo! is the 3rd most visited collection of web properties worldwide (trailing only Google and Microsoft), reaching about 61% of the global web audience. In the

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• The long walk home

  Published: August 1, 2007, 3:43 am

  Tags: Life, Poetry, Write

  i[b] have been lost on the roads in my mind forever...My childhood got lost on these same roads of wild love and hot summer nights...My heart was found on these same roads with gentle love and sweet memories...At the same time my heart was lost with tears and angry words...Roads all lead somewhere don't they?Now I am on a road that turns and twist

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• Adjustables Debuts Video Ad Service at ad:tech Chicago

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:30 am

  Tags: Read Write Web

  The growing ranks of online marketers gathered this week at ad:tech Chicago. Big technology players like Google, DoubleClick, WebTrends, Omniture, and Advertising.com were present, along with email marketing firms, large online agencies, and whole raft of smaller players with new tools for RSS, mobile, and video advertising. The coolest

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• Listen, write, breathe, and talk your way out of stress

  Published: August 3, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Anxiety, Breathe, Calming, Disappointment, Emotion, Excape, Fear, Listen, Panic, Song, Stress, Talk, Thoughts, Worry, Write

  and motivated. Write down your thoughts. Just write. Don't worry about grammar, spelling, or sentence formation. Just jot down what's on your mind. Transfer your emotion to paper -- or the computer screen -- and see how relieved you can feel. Breathe. Try this: Breathe in through your nose as you count slowly to five. Breathe

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• Adjustables Debuts Video Ad Service at ad:tech Chicago

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:30 am

  Tags: Read Write Web

  The growing ranks of online marketers gathered this week at ad:tech Chicago. Big technology players like Google, DoubleClick, WebTrends, Omniture, and Advertising.com were present, along with email marketing firms, large online agencies, and whole raft of smaller players with new tools for RSS, mobile, and video advertising. The coolest

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• A Project Drags On...

  Published: August 5, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Freelance Writing, Get Paid To Write, Work At Home

  I just got back from a 10 day vacation. I had some down time (my husband was climbing Mount Rainier and it took several days) so I decided to take on a project. Well, trying to connect to the internet was quite interesting. The only place I could find that had internet had a signal strength of "very poor" (and I had to pay $5 for the password!) It

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• iPhone vs Mobile Web

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:56 am

  Tags: Read Write Web

  Recently a Forrester report was released stating that the iPhone "signals the beginning of the end for the mobile Web as we know it today". The report suggested that re-designing sites for the small screens of mobile phones would become "a thing of the past", because of the iPhone's advanced technology such as zooming. Some people came to the

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• Freelance Writing - Getting Started

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:36 pm

  Tags: Freelance Writing, Get Paid To Write, Work At Home

  The life of a writer appears to have many perks. The uninitiated envisions us working in our pajamas while writing fluff about far away places, beautiful people, and spectacular adventures. After chuckling, we patiently explain how many hours it can take to research an article, or the number of times an article is submitted before it sells.

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• How to Become a Famous Author

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:57 pm

  Tags: How To Write, Write Well

  The thing is, anyone can write well. You can write something that receives hundreds, even thousands of views. You can write a novel that sells thousands of copies. The secret is to write something that people want to read, by writing about

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• HBO Voyeur: Intriguing, Yet Creepy, Multimedia Video Project

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:23 am

  Tags: Read Write Web

  At the end of June, US cable network Home Box Office launched an ambitious new web video project entitled HBO Voyeur. The concept was easy to grasp, avante garde, and wholly addicting. HBO called the project, which was also broadcast on the HBO on Demand pay cable channel... Permalink: HBO Voyeur: Intriguing, Yet Creepy, Multimedia

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• It’s Late, We’ve All Been Drinking, Let’s Go Watch the Anti-Abortionists Backtrack!

  Published: August 11, 2007, 1:32 am

  Tags: The Conservative Soap Opera, America How Can I Write Holy Litany In Your Silly Moo, Politics Other Nonsense

  Y’all, I come home to find that the anti-abortionists no longer believe that abortion is murder. I’m so stunned I almost don’t know what to think. Is the worth of a human fetus tied to the stock market–the market plummets and suddenly a human life just isn’t worth what it was before? Because I could have sworn

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• What Kind of Country Do We Become When We Set Out to See How Much Misery We Can Inflict?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:51 pm

  Tags: America How Can I Write Holy Litany In Your Silly Moo, Politics Other Nonsense

  Today in the New York Times, you can read the following editorial. I think they’ve done away with TimesSelect, but if not, let me quote to you the relevant parts: The federal government's abandonment of comprehensive reform has been matched by unprecedented crackdowns at the state and local level. Lawmakers this year have introduced more

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• You got Paypal mail! (payment from LinkWorth)

  Published: August 11, 2007, 2:15 am

  Tags: Linkworth, Tips, Norm, Individually, Mails, Morning, Companies, Write, Paid, Post

  For those of us who write paid post to make money, I think it is almost the norm to get mails every morning. Some paid post companies pay us individually, i.e. per post. So, it is awfully fun to the the mail box bombed with 20 emails from PayPal at a time, each with USD5. Other companies, like LinkWorth and TextLinkAds pay us monthly. The nice

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• Privacy and Personalization: From Clickstream to Targeted Advertising

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Read Write Web

  This week we are talking about personalization and privacy is an important, related topic. To personalize pages companies need to know things about us - what we like, what we've seen, what we read and what we purchased. Online retailers are in the business of capturing our information to give them a competitive advantage over their

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