Hard Hitting Journalistic Writing On Two Sites From Floods To Wildfires To Worse
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Posted by neillevine
September 7, 2009
Posted by neillevine
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Currently, this writer is proud to say he is having original yet basically different articles published on two different web sites.
There are multiple advantages for me, including widening my audience and being able to go into greater depth about the same subject, adding wrinkles as I see fit, even though the two ezines are entirely different. This site is in some ways more serious, more fact dedicated. I also have editor privileges, meaning I can put up articles when I want without waiting for an editor, while at the same time I admit I could use first class, heavy duty, professional level editorial advice. I also have an AdSense account here.
There is the added dignity of having two editors or web masters or whatever you want to call these daring entrepreneurs essentially saying I am not only worth publishing, I am also worth reading. I would go further but diplomacy and the rules of the road preempt greater explanation, particularly when it comes to AdSense and attracting that precious commodity, the interested reader.
The other site I am being published on has more active contributors and probably more traffic, although that is a guesstimate since while I have access to traffic statistics here, I have not pursued eyeball numbers for the other web zine which is ironically called Useless-knowledge.
Useless-knowledge came first and has evolved over time. It has a number of current and past contributors, virtually all listed in the polite billing of contributors, all with interesting backgrounds. Some professional writers earning serious money from their work, doctors, a college student, a retired businessman, a housewife and so on. They write about current affairs, the hard road of a struggling writer and the like. I read a lot of the articles on this site, perhaps not everything, but enough to know who is who and what is going on. It helps me think and deal with life’s small vagaries and even spurs me to greater creative effort.
As I review my past writings, I can see that there are big differences in the articles I have published on each site.
As things stand, particularly with the sad passing of Karen Amato Schwartz, I am the sole active contributor here. That is somewhat disappointing, while at the same time it is fine and dandy with me. I believe I have something important to say and intend to say it. I am making progress in my writing style and also improving my fluency and writing ability. In order to fact check, it is easy to scroll down and find things. I am quire proud of the quality, relevance and importance of what I have written here in the past and intend to keep up the good work going forward into the wild, blue future.
On Useless-Knowledge, I covered in great detail the damage Katrina did to New Orleans as well as the devastation flooding normally causes and even went into depth about wildfires and the poor economy, all attributable to patronage politics as we know it.
Remember if I was looking for a reputable lawyer then, I am still in need of suitable counsel now. As the sad examples of Charles Rangel and Eliot Spitzer have made abundantly clear, we are not dealing with paragons of virtue by any significant or meaningful means.
Heading into the future, I expect to keep on pointing to the palpable and hidden in plain sight weaknesses and outrages as I see them wherever they may be. Just stay tuned to either this site, ArsCompendium, or Useless-Knowledge and politely bear with me as I pop big political balloons and make them go FIZZLE.
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