2 posts tagged “writing”
Is the above a good metaphor? Does the Kindle provide kindling for your brain, setting it afire? Doesn't really matter...
Yes, I did it. I bought a Kindle. They came out with a new version, and I bought it. It hasn't arrived yet, but it will, and then I will...read! Ok, sounds a bit boring, and it is. I am hoping it will increase the volume of my reading, which I think it will. I'll read more at lunch, at home, on the couch, listen to it read to me on the way to work. I just read today that Amazon is limiting the Text-to-Speech feature. That sucks. That wasn't my main reason for buying it, but it could have been, and maybe still will be, a great feature that I will use very often. I'm pretty sure it will work for any free stuff I send to my Kindle, so I may have to do that. I could get a book scanner and, after it scans my book in, then transfer the Word document over to the Kindle. That would be ideal, but book scanners are expensive and time consuming, even with the best system.
Regardless, I'm still anxiously awaiting my Kindle.
Another thing I'm trying to do is to learn to type using the Dvorak keyboard layout. It is very difficult to learn when you regularly type use the QWERTY layout, and you learned using that layout. Funny, I saw a comment by someone that referred to it as the "Querty" layout, twice! He obviously didn't realize why it was called that!
Yet another thing: I want to try my hand at writing again, like I did when I was in middle school and a little bit in high school. I was good at writing stories in middle school, for a middle schooler, but didn't want to fail at writing seriously, so never really tried. Who knows if I get around to it. If I do, I'll let you know and even provide some of my writing here, for sampling.
Smorty.
Yeah! This is the future! If you haven’t heard about this Advertising Agency, it turns word of mouth (actually word of bloggers) into $$! Advertisers pay Smarty for their service and Smorty pays the bloggers who ‘advertise’ (really just write stuff) for the clients! How does it work? Well, if you’re a blogger, you go to their web site, meet their requirements for blogging (they will review your blog and either approve it or give you further requirements in order to get it approved), and then you write blog entries for companies that are signed with them. Pretty easy.
It’s pretty much getting paid to talk! I mean, if you read some blogs, people are just blathering on and on about things that hardly matter to them, much less, the reader! This gives them a chance to ramble on and get paid for it!
How do you get paid? You gotta have a PayPal account. It’s easy to get one! With it, you can send and receive money by email…essentially. They send you money when submit blog entries for them. Very cool.
Ethics. You get to choose which products you’ll ‘advertise’ for, which means you don’t have to lie and say something’s a great product when you think it stinks or you’ve never tried it. Right now, it doesn’t seem like there’s much of a choice of clients, but I think more opportunities open up the more you blog.
Don’t worry, I’ll let you know when I’m blogging for money. If there’s nothing about Smorty, then it means I’m not getting paid.
