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Xombalization Nation Text Message: Make Money Online using an Editor-'Quota' on Better-than-'Making Money' Blogs

posted September 21, 2008 - 9:37am
Xombalization Nation Text Message: Make Money Online using an Editor-'Quota' on Better-than-'Making Money' Blogs
Uncle MythMan says ...

On another walk-about, I was thinking, "Why don't I do Xomba like a job?" I mean, the one time I got paid, this is how I did it: whatever I write, I type first into a Word-document or Notepad-program (not the Xombyte-posting program); then I wait until the last Xombyte I posted is either 'last on the front-page list' or 'no longer on the front-page list,' when I copy/paste the text into a new Xombyte.

That's if I'm inspired to write more than
the bare-bones 'one-or-two posts' before
I spend the rest of the 'work-day' com-
menting!

I do the same thing with Xomblurbs (except that I usually just post a `blurb of a bunch of links others can post individual `blurbs about).

You might think, "If you're lookin` ta` make quota, why don't you just write 25 links and up to 25 Xombytes, post all those and call it a day?"

Three reasons: 1) I am not the owner of Xomba.com or the only writer here, and so I don't want to (even briefly) present it as such; 2) I do not want this work to fall into the same rut-mindset as "paperwork"; and 3) 90% of the quality-content on Xomba (as opposed to the FREE MOVIES ON XOMBA.COM content) is in the comments below the post—one ought to spend 90% of one's time commenting!

Maybe it's closer to 80/20 or 95/5, but the exact number is not the point! The point is that blogs (especially Xomba, but there are others!) are the hosts of democratic press of today ... conception-place of Web 2.0—the Virgin Mary of the Computer Age ... and we blog-workers need to give no other example but that of a high comment-to-blog ratio, in order to lead the great web-surfers to plug into the power-system!

Author: mythman
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@veghead--Read Aloud (Even in a Whisper)

mythman - Sun, 2008-28-9 9:32 am
I know; I'm racked with the same malady---shifting into 'scan' if a text isn't 'pointed' enough (practically a sequence of extra-long headlines interspersed with regular headlines) ... UNLESS I read it out loud (sometimes whispering, sometimes full-voiced). ---Buddha tells Uncle MythMan, "Flood the Open Eyes with the Truth, for as Long as You Exist!" Help Him Spread the Truth (about stuff) Here!

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skim reading like skim milk

veghead - Sat, 2008-27-9 6:54 pm
I don't know if it's because my mother died a few weeks ago and I'm feeling so weirded out about it even though it was expected, or if the Internet has truly damaged my ability to read richly and not just skim read, but I'd like to be able to connect to the written word again, like I used to. Can't seem to do it now, though. As for the bible, I see it as a study in chaos cobbled together by a motley crew (yeah, oral history sounds about right). It always amazes me that people actually use it as a spiritual reference book to conduct their personal lives because ethically it's all over the map.

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@veghead--I Remember "How to Read Blogs"

mythman - Sat, 2008-27-9 5:31 pm
(a blog-post by one of my MySpace-friends) It was--for the most-part--a comic complaint about how people only skim through large articles and thus only read the headers and a few heavy keywords (much like we all secretly learn--calling it 'speed-reading'--in college). That article, on top of the fact that the Bible is largely an ORAL HISTORY (only written relatively-recently), on top of the fact that the oldest religions hold the human voice so sacred, inspired me to focus on lectory on YouTube ---Buddha tells Uncle MythMan, "Flood the Open Eyes with the Truth, for as Long as You Exist!" Help Him Spread the Truth (about stuff) Here!

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Be the Change You Long to See in the World--veghead-idlewild

mythman - Sat, 2008-27-9 5:04 pm
That's another reason people shouldn't 'look for Internet-Jobs'--because people looking for 'jobs' aren't looking to fill their place in the world, they're looking for 'money'; the net IS NOT an industry, it's "a massive-collection of information"; they who want to add to that information JUST DO IT, and the advertisers pay the information-adders to add the ad-info to the collection near their own. That is where the money begins and -ends on the Internet (minus the 'sunk costs' of equipment, IPs and upgrades). ---Buddha tells Uncle MythMan, "Flood the Open Eyes with the Truth, for as Long as You Exist!" Help Him Spread the Truth (about stuff) Here!

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Searchable keywords and the lost ark of the covenant

veghead - Tue, 2008-23-9 12:03 am
I checked out that stuff once or twice about what's hot and what's not in keywords, and decided I'd rather not approach my writing like I'm trying to trick readers into looking at it by enticing them with seductive come-ons, which is also why I don't bother with personal promos at the ends of my comments. Not that there's anything wrong with that, Oh Great Xomba Bodhisattva. I read an alarming article in The Atlantic recently about how the attention spans of all of us who spend substantial time on the Internet doing our research/reading are getting shorter and shorter, and that it's becoming more difficult to sit down and try to concentrate on a long article (a la The New Yorker) or a book, rather than just skimming through them at Internet speed. Our brains are apparently becoming rewired because of the insidious influence of Internet writing.

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ya git what ya pay fer, idle

veghead - Mon, 2008-22-9 11:44 pm
Ergo if readers are content with rushed writing, with all its typos, misspellings, syntax errors, disorganization, etc., that's what they will continue to get, even at the esteemed NYT, and the dumbing down of America will continue apace. Everybody is in such a hurry these days, and to get where, exactly? I'm old enough to remember the pre-PC era, when life was a bit slower and more of us took time out to take leisurely walks, smell the roses, read actual books, and construct grammatical sentences (strike up the violins). I will concede that Constant Content is a light in the darkness of dismal Internet writing--I've had a few articles accepted there in the past and sold one--but the content their clients are looking for, IMO, is stereotypical Net stuff. CC is definitely a lot fussier about the nuts and bolts of it (they once dinged an article of mine because of a single comma they deemed misplaced, even though I disagreed with them), and that's a good thing. But again, if you don't become adept at short, frothy, keyword-heavy articles, no matter how professionally they're written and even if CC accepts them, it's unlikely they will be purchased by CC clients. That's been my experience.

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@IdLewiLd-veg--That's Where Our Pay Differs from Network-Hirees'

mythman - Mon, 2008-22-9 1:01 pm
Where the hiring network-owners' money comes from, they've got all worked out before they hire on the entertainers; and they 'buy' the entertainers' time just like they sold time to the ones who pay them. Here, the owners "get" the money before we write here but don't "own" the money until the "bought" displays have been made. The writing here doesn't "have" to be keyword-heavy OR 'good quality' lol, but the money is put to better use when the writing's good (keyword-heaviness is like 'an entertainer's mathematical schooling' ... it's part of what earns the degrees, but not why we love the work). ---Uncle MythMan, who KNOWS you're as awesome as the 2009 Collection (in your special way), yet needs to hear *you*! Join Here!(PalinVP`09)

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@vegh--Let Me Be Your Keyword Jesus Bodhisattva Noodly-Appendage

mythman - Mon, 2008-22-9 11:01 am
The keywords are ONLY here to help readers find us. As far as the in-text keywords are concerned, the question the keyword tool at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal answers is, "If find 'what I've written,' what does that mean they're looking-for?" I then use the most-searched and/or -relevant terms in the 'Keywords'-entry and possibly adapt some into the title I have already written. (There's also a little information about 'competition' [probably 'higher pay'] for the keywords found, but that doesn't concern us as much as relevance and search-volume.) ---Uncle MythMan, who KNOWS you're as awesome as the 2009 Collection (in your special way), yet needs to hear *you*! Join Here!(PalinVP`09)

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@veghead - the big question

Idlewild - Mon, 2008-22-9 10:50 am
"If Internet writers got paid for time spent and the quality of their writing (quaint idea, I know), it would automatically improve by leaps and bounds " The big question, of course, is who would pay the money for that writing? People expect most writing on the Web to be free (why should I buy the NY Times when I can get all the content online, and more up to date at that, online for free? And without getting that black ink all over my hands, to boot, LOL). There are sites like Constant Content on which writers can get paid more, depending on what clients want to pay. The writing doesn't have to be so keyword heavy, but it has to be good quality and what the client wants.

I'm not going to keyword heaven when I die

veghead - Mon, 2008-22-9 10:43 am
At least I hope not. I hate the idea that you have to insert certain words, over and over, into your writing, which basically becomes ad copy for some product nobody needs anyway, in order to make a profit for TheCorporation.com and a tiny amount for yourself. Xomba still has its heart and soul, thanks largely to Nick, I think (along with some really poor writing, unfortunately), and I hope it doesn't go the way of AC, Helium, and some other more commercialized websites. Bring back socialism, truth and justice! If Internet writers got paid for time spent and the quality of their writing (quaint idea, I know), it would automatically improve by leaps and bounds (as it is now, IMHO, it's almost universally dismal) and they wouldn't be boasting, like that guy on Helium, of having written 1,000 articles, like somebody should congratulate him or something. And hey, is it just me, or is the point system (the number you click on to signal your approval of an article) dysfunctional these days?

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