Weekend Link Love
November 25, 2007 by Deb
Filed under Freelance Writing
In case you don’t have enough to do, here’s a little weekend link love. As always, some of these have to do with writing, some don’t and some are shameless self promotion. They all interest me and so I’d like to share them with you. Enjoy!
- A major announcement at About Weblogs.
- You think I get nasty comments here? Check out what happens when I give a dozen reasons to hate football.
- Liz Strauss helps you survive the holidays.
- How to write Digg bait at CopyBlogger.
- Darren Rowse asks, “Whose Needs are You Meeting?”
- Freelancers and Feedback at The Golden Pencil.
- Would you work for a lash extensions? The Craigslist Curmudgeon won’t either.
- Channeling your interests for fun and profit at Blogging Tips.
- The Oxford Press’ 2007 Word of the Year at Copywriter Underground.
- Four Way to Take Control of Your Work at Freelance Switch.
- 20 Things to Do with Leftover Turkey at Simply Thrifty.
- Quicken now offers will making software at Lifehacker.
- Spam will outnumber legitimate emails at Read/Write Web.
- A free alternative to MS office at Web Worker Daily.
- Laura Spencer at Work from Home Momma wants to know if your clients take you seriously. Do they?
Don’t forget, if you’d like to be featured in my end of the year link love post – send an email to deborahng(at)gmail.com and put “blog plug” in the header.
Happy Sunday,
Deb
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I am sorry to see you go over at About! I do understand that you have to go where there are greener pastures, so for that I applaud you!
BTW, I gave you some love for your football article. I hate the sport, too! LOL
Have a great Sunday, Deb!
Wow. I’m surprised you’re leaving About.
Are you ghost blogging for the full-time client? Or can you tell us what your new gig is?
Good luck on that full-time gig, Deb! You’ll rock at it, I know.
Happy for you on the new job, Deb. Congrats.
Geez Louise… those comments on the 7 Babes a Blogging were insane. I mean, chill out, people.
It’s amazing what will stir up controversy in the blogosphere. I have a post on one of my blogs (Quoibles) about the fact that I hate coffee tables. I’m just waiting for an Ethan Allen rep to give it to me!
you’re a dumb cunt with a hippo face.
How come you wrote “step off your podium”, yet you delete every comment you don’t agree with?
Deb,
I’m going to miss your posts at About, but WOW! What an amazing opportunity for you. Congrats on your success– you’ve worked so hard and you really deserve it. And, for what it’s worth, I hate football, too!
It’s disturbing that there are so many mean-spirited people who don’t bother to self-monitor themselves out there. But I suppose it’s a little comforting that they aren’t very good writers. You can kind of imagine them drooling on themselves as they type.
Deb,
Congrats on the new gig! Isn’t it interesting that each opportunity paves the way for the next one?
Wow, Deb, I read those football post comments…sheesh. It’s hilarious how anonymous people will call someone “ugly” as a rebuttal–that’s “really” intelligent.
It really doesn’t matter the topic – if you criticize something that other people love, tempers flare and the internet allows people the possibility to be rude without revealing a real identity. Once upon a time, I couldn’t stand football either, but my husband is a football fan and I learned the rules over time (special thanks to actress Holly Robinson Peet for writing a guide that put football into terms I could understand) and now watch games with him. Sundays have turned into great days because I’ll curl up with him on the sofa and half read/half watch while he watches his team.
It really doesn’t matter the topic though. I once reviewed a book written by a vegan who was very, very preachy. Now I try to live by a too-each-his/her-own philosophy, but this woman went as far as stating that those who eat meat are not following God’s path and that all meat eaters or dairy users are going to die from cancer. When I gave a negative review of her book, she and her groupies went ballistic and sent out numerous emails to other authors and publishers about why my review site should be black listed because I was offering personal insights in a review. In the end, she looked ridiculous because reviews are personal, but I learned that people can just be downright vicious when they feel attacked.
Wow Deb! there’s so much to say here.
First of all, thanks for linking to Work From Home Momma. I’m proud to have you as a reader there.
Secondly, I’m really said to see you leave About. I learned so much from you in the time you were there. In fact, I hope that they leave your posts up because I’d like to go back and re-read some of it.
Thanks for all that you do. You’re an inspiration for other writers.
If they take your articles and information down for the next author, you will have to take all your writings and make us a book. I get one free because it is my idea!!! LOL Good Luck
I read most of those comments, and holy crap! What is wrong with some of those people? I’d like to believe that most of them are little kids who just get a thrill from using dirty words, but some of them sounded like adults. It’s unreal the things people think they can say and do just because of the relative anonymity offered.