I’m writing for BrightHub

I started blog­ging back in 2003, and I learn some­thing new every day about writ­ing, attri­bu­tion, and basic research when I write a story. When i was in art school, my draw­ing instruc­tors told us to draw some­thing every day. It’s a skill, not a gift. Skills need work and practice.

Friends of mine who do SEO (search engine opti­miza­tion) con­sult­ing have told me that I should be run­ning sev­eral dif­fer­ent blogs, each with a dif­fer­ent domain name. My mobile tech­nol­ogy posts could go in one blog, while my Hon­olulu polit­i­cal posts could appear at alohapundit.com, for example.

I have made one major change in my blog­ging model. I’ve started writ­ing arti­cles about home office tech­nol­ogy, the Mac and small busi­ness secu­rity for BrightHub.

There are some ben­e­fits in writ­ing for a larger web site. At BrightHub, I have three edi­tors that pro­vide feed­back and topic sug­ges­tions. BrightHub sells ad links to the arti­cles, and main­tains the site and its con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem (CMS).

BrightHub keeps the copy­right over the arti­cles I write for them, I do earn some rev­enue on each arti­cle. My BrightHub arti­cles are listed in my pro­file on that site, as well as my BrightHub page at billso.com.

Friend­Feed is another ser­vice that I use. It’s a social media aggre­ga­tor that col­lects my posts, com­ments and items from other ser­vices like Twit­ter, Stum­ble­Upon, Google Reader and my Ama­zon Wish List.

I have set up a page at billso.com that lists my recent Friend­Feed activ­ity. It’s not as pretty or as orga­nized as my FriendFeed.com page but it was a fun way to do some RSS filtering.

While I enjoy post­ing a new entry at billso.com every day, I may scale back that com­mit­ment so that I can post more arti­cles on BrightHub and other services.

Related posts and pages on billso.com

• BrightHub
• 25 June 2008: Hon­olulu Adver­tiser blogs need more con­tent and authority

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