Category: Publishing


My Vision for Wordful

I’ve taken a major break from blogging here at Wordful, and it’s in large part to some serious shifts in my personal and professional life over the past year. To make a very long and (painful) story short—the down economy and a few other issues forced me to to shutter my office and consultancy and venture […]

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Is Great Content Finally Coming of Age?

What do you think: is the Internet more about content or more about technology? So far, the answer is obvious. By taking a simplistic, macro view of the largest companies to dominate the computer and information age, you can easily conclude that it’s been about technology: Microsoft: make it easy to use computers Google: make […]

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The Internet is Begging for Curators: Are You In?

The amount of content on the web is now so abundant that it’s begging everyday users to jump in and start curating what they consume. One such service is paper.li, an online “newspaper” that anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account can plug in to. It gathers and sorts through the links shared in the […]

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Going Surfing at the Affiliate Improv! Session at Affiliate Summit West

The idea of the Affiliate Improv! session was to choose one idea from the audience for an affiliate marketing brainstorming session among five expert panelists: Daniel Clark, Andrew Bennett, Mike Buechele, Jen Goode and Wade Tonkin. As fate would have it, my topic of surfing got chosen to be featured. I’ve always wanted to start a niche surfing […]

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Scraping and Autoblogging: Why They Suck

Being such a lover of words and good writing, I thought I’d chime in on one of the filthier sides of blogging: scraper sites and autoblogging. The two terms are basically the same thing, but with a slight twist in semantics: Scraping refers to automatically copying full articles from other blogs (or RSS feeds) for […]

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