I bet George Orwell never thought about SEO
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In my search for workaday happiness, I left another job. This is becoming a habit. This job was one of the dullest things I’ve ever done - filing news via an awful content management system that didn’t let me format pictures properly, wouldn’t let me embed video, and didn’t give me [...]
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Using Google Maps in journalism
I’m a big fan of Google maps in general, but it can be particularly useful when you’re trying to illustrate a story about a particular area. I experimented with it here, while writing a story about an alleged attack by the Russian government on Kyrgyzstan’s cyber infrastructure.
This wasn’t a blindingly impressive use of Google maps, [...]
The future of freelancing?
What’s going to happen to us poor freelancers? Newspapers and magazines are closing or scaling back in record numbers. Budgets are being cut, and writers are getting laid off - which means more freelancers on the market, competing for less work. Chilling stuff, to be sure.
But there’s another problem facing freelancers, and it’s one that’s [...]
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Word Herder is a site for writers and readers of both fiction and non-fiction. Surf here to read more about useful tools to help you organise your writing and optimise your research. I'm Danny Bradbury and I'm a freelance technology writer writing for the Guardian , the Financial Times, the National Post, Backbone magazine, MSN Canada, and the trade press. Here's a feed showing some of my work.
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