Tree lighting

Santa showed up and lit the town Christmas tree!

Vanished story is up

Http://wired.com/vanish
My friend got a good write up. I got a tiny mention.

This photo is from my recent trip to NYC. The foreground has the new
high line park.

Pouring..

Watching the pour reminds me of our industrial revolution and how far we have come.

Tentacles

Ah, what a fine piece of squid! Bubes brewery.

1800's

Sometimes I feel like I'm living in the olden days here in town. Old
house, old people and old ideals. Old problems. I wish I knew the
fix!

A Penny A Word: The marketplace for content online

In a quest to expand the content in some of my websites, I discovered the online marketplace for writers. Freelancers, many overseas, looking to make some money online find that writing articles for mere pennies is a quick fix. Publishers of sites, like me, that need content to fill out some websites pay for someone to write vast quantities of content. Here's my experience. Round 1: Ten 500 word articles for $50. The somewhat randomly selected author quickly turned over the assigned topics. My first reaction was: ugh. horrible. Poorly written. Obviously non native English, and somewhat useless content wise. I put it up online anyway and basically forgot about it for years. 2 years later, total profit: $100. Pretty good investment actually, though somewhat slow turn over. I might have spent my time better writing the articles myself, if only I didn't hate writing assignments. The most surprising statistic: they are the highest paying per CPM pages of all my sites! They pay 3 times per page view as other sites, but with little traffic. Round 2: Today I'm bringing in a few better writers, and hopefully they will get better placement. 2 years down the road, the marketplace has improved. I also have some deserted sites that need more content. Obviously, I'm hoping that the article writing project will scale up from the pennies a day volume it currently produces. So, would you write for a penny a word? Talk is cheap and online content is even cheaper.

Election day ; election results!

After a long day of hitting the polls and trolling for votes, it
looks like it has paid off. I'm just waiting on final results.

Halloween 2009

Fun costumes and good times. More pics on my fb account.