From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Love Doesn’t Always Pay the Bills

August 27, 2009

On Monday, I spent some time exploring the idea of “lifecasting” and the ways that the young women who run NonSociety take advantage of it as a medium. Today, NonSociety contributor Meghan wrote a post about making money as a blogger.
Meghan wrote: “I’ve had it up to my ears trying to get some form of [...]

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Translating Personal to Universal Language

August 25, 2009

As an online media outlet, Too Shy to Stop competes with blogs and online newspapers/magazines. We don’t really fit into a genre, and we’re kind of tough to define. We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel, but we do want to offer a unique product with content that readers can’t find anywhere else.
Personal essays are [...]

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Lessons Learned from Julia Allison (Part 2)

August 20, 2009

As you know, no one is really sure how to make money from the Internet. Most people aren’t interested in making money online. Other people get by with advertising, subscription-based websites, and product sales, but no one has found the be-all, end-all solution for generating revenue.
A few trailblazers have been thinking outside the box and [...]

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Power of flickr and the Creative Commons

August 19, 2009

I just found out through Nieman Journalism Lab that a flickr member had a photograph chosen for a New York Times Magazine cover. I think it’s pretty amazing that artist Jenny Holzer chose work done by an unknown photographer rather than a picture taken by a NYTimes staffer.
Said cobalt123, the photographer, “You will see that [...]

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Follow, Follow, Friend

August 18, 2009

I’ve been kind of annoyed at Twitter lately. In February/March, when I first discovered this social networking tool, I was completely fascinated. I loved receiving notifications about my new followers, and I enoyed Tweeting about mostly insignificant topics. I made a lot of new friends and even got to meet some of them in person!
The [...]

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