The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell

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Re: The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell

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Post by chuck_taylor » Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 4:35 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #40

chuck_taylor wrote: post #36

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Word count is not an indication of the effort involved. Itg's not merely a matter of typing in words like a monkey. You have to know about which you write. The more you know, likely the more time it took you to learn it. Time is money, words are just words.

Word count is not an indication of the effort involved. If it's for writing small news bits, it can be. Let's say you're a total expert with using GMail and you have to write a couple of posts linking to GMail news, the occasional tip, etc, each day - you can probably bash short posts out in no time. You have the many hundreds of hours invested in actually become the expert in the first place, but I doubt anyone beco…

Well, OK, but that's an awfully narrow example. What happens when you are asked, or want, to write of something about which you know only a little? Or something you sort of know well but which requires a modest degree of fact-checking and verification?

Put another way, how much do you expect to earn per hour for this sort of work? How long does it take you to write an informative 300 words?

Re: The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell

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Post by chuck_taylor » Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 4:44 PM UTC

10ren wrote: post #38

chuck_taylor wrote: post #35

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Most likely Wired didn't do anything based on a press release. The P.R. industry would like you to believe they are able to drive the news agenda, but when it comes to the Wireds and The New York Timeses of the world, it's rare for a press release to lead to a story of this magnitude. Most likely, Demand Studios' P.R. people freaked out when Wired inquired. This story likely took weeks to report and write. A graphic…

I wonder if we'll ever know, factually, who wrote to whom first? I don't mean to slight wired; but I'm sure that many technology companies would like to be covered by wired, and if they have any sense, they'd prepare an article in the most convenient form for wired, and send it to them - and the guy running Demand definitely knows how to make things happen at this point. They wouldn't have any control over what Wired…

I think you mean AdSense. AdWords are a way for content creators to spend money, not make it.

In any event, AdSense revenue is trivial compared to the cost of creating content that has any widespread impact.

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