Comments on: Exclusive: Demand Media now accepting UK, Canadian freelance writers http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers Media, technology and journalism from a freelance writer in London Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:14:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Interview: Demand Media EVP Steven Kydd on farms, going public and conquering Europe « MediaBriefing Experts' Blog http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-1519 Interview: Demand Media EVP Steven Kydd on farms, going public and conquering Europe « MediaBriefing Experts' Blog Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:12:05 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-1519 [...] what is Demand doing in Europe? It launched eHow in the UK last year and – as Kydd has told me before – the plan has always been to scale up in Europe. There are a dozen UK-based staff already. [...] [...] what is Demand doing in Europe? It launched eHow in the UK last year and – as Kydd has told me before – the plan has always been to scale up in Europe. There are a dozen UK-based staff already. [...]

]]> By: The future of news…? | Journalism@Brunel http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 The future of news…? | Journalism@Brunel Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:07:23 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-1312 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: psmith, journalist › Demand Media: The $114 million content machine that has nothing to do with news http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 psmith, journalist › Demand Media: The $114 million content machine that has nothing to do with news Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:40:24 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-1146 [...] been saying for a long while that Demand Media‘s digital content model has potential to make it big. And [...] [...] been saying for a long while that Demand Media‘s digital content model has potential to make it big. And [...]

]]> By: Michelle http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-852 Michelle Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:34:47 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-852 [...] The interview, conducted by freelance journalist Patrick Smith, is well worth listening to as it offers a window into the minds of those who are beginning to pull the strings in the publishing industry. [...] [...] The interview, conducted by freelance journalist Patrick Smith, is well worth listening to as it offers a window into the minds of those who are beginning to pull the strings in the publishing industry. [...]

]]> By: THE PREACHER http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-664 THE PREACHER Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:17:57 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-664 Follow the adventures of the newest cartoon super hero, E-HOW MAN as he stars in THE ADVENTURES OF E-HOW MAN. I think our newest super hero speaks for himself when it comes to evidence. Part 1; THE BRAINS BEHIND THE EMPIRE http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6322033 <a href="http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6322033" rel="nofollow">THE BRAINS BEHIND THE EMPITE</a> Part 2; THE UK SCANDAL COMES TO LIGHT http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6325757 <a href="http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6325757" rel="nofollow">THE UK SCANDAL COMES TO LIGHT</a> Follow the adventures of the newest cartoon super hero, E-HOW MAN as he stars in THE ADVENTURES OF E-HOW MAN. I think our newest super hero speaks for himself when it comes to evidence.

Part 1; THE BRAINS BEHIND THE EMPIRE
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6322033
THE BRAINS BEHIND THE EMPITE

Part 2; THE UK SCANDAL COMES TO LIGHT
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6325757
THE UK SCANDAL COMES TO LIGHT

]]> By: Can the Internet ever be corrected? | Donald's Archive 2.0 http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-638 Can the Internet ever be corrected? | Donald's Archive 2.0 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:46:13 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-638 [...] conducive to thorough destination research, at the moment and for the most part anyway. Patrick Smith has documented the UK launch of Demand Media on his blog, and the pay for experts at leading travel portals isn’t significantly better. (Not because [...] [...] conducive to thorough destination research, at the moment and for the most part anyway. Patrick Smith has documented the UK launch of Demand Media on his blog, and the pay for experts at leading travel portals isn’t significantly better. (Not because [...]

]]> By: THE PREACHER http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-577 THE PREACHER Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:22:09 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-577 Patrick, I am so glad you posted a link to that story on the $80 per article announcement. Using that story you posted, maybe I can now make my case to you, and this is the first time I have seen this story. Yes, they do state it will be ehow writers, that much is clear. In fact, the name of the program is actually titled eHow Premium Homepage Writers. I think its safe to say we both can agree on this so far? Now if you would go down the page, to INCREASED EXPOSURE, and an example of a writer who is now earning $80 per article is listed. Is that an ehow writer or a DS writer? As I have tried to explain, ehow pulled a quick one on you and anyone who ran with this story. These are DS writers, not ehow writers. I believe you to be an honest reporter. In this case, ehow and DS hood winked you. Rich is the community manager at ehow, and he has said no ehow writers will be able to qualify for this eHow Premium Homepage Writers program. So why name a program eHow Premium Homepage Writers when in fact, ehow writers will not be part of the program? Free press for the ehow UK site, I hope using this very article you posted, and looking it over you will begin to see what ehow cleverly did with this story. By the way, I did try to find a link to you to talk about this, but you don't seem to have a link up, and I am no good at trying to figure out how to type in emails. But I think I have explained this fairly good. http://www.demandstudios.com/blog/announcing-ehow-premium-homepage-writers Patrick, I am so glad you posted a link to that story on the $80 per article announcement. Using that story you posted, maybe I can now make my case to you, and this is the first time I have seen this story. Yes, they do state it will be ehow writers, that much is clear. In fact, the name of the program is actually titled eHow Premium Homepage Writers. I think its safe to say we both can agree on this so far? Now if you would go down the page, to INCREASED EXPOSURE, and an example of a writer who is now earning $80 per article is listed. Is that an ehow writer or a DS writer? As I have tried to explain, ehow pulled a quick one on you and anyone who ran with this story. These are DS writers, not ehow writers. I believe you to be an honest reporter. In this case, ehow and DS hood winked you. Rich is the community manager at ehow, and he has said no ehow writers will be able to qualify for this eHow Premium Homepage Writers program. So why name a program eHow Premium Homepage Writers when in fact, ehow writers will not be part of the program? Free press for the ehow UK site, I hope using this very article you posted, and looking it over you will begin to see what ehow cleverly did with this story. By the way, I did try to find a link to you to talk about this, but you don’t seem to have a link up, and I am no good at trying to figure out how to type in emails. But I think I have explained this fairly good.
http://www.demandstudios.com/blog/announcing-ehow-premium-homepage-writers

]]> By: THE PREACHER http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-576 THE PREACHER Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:47:27 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-576 As I have tried to explain, it is not, as you have stated, ehow writers who will be earning $80 per article. Ehow and DS wanted people to think this, to stir up news reports on its expandsion into the UK. Rich, the Manager at ehow has said himself no ehow writers will be making $80 per article. The hand selected few are DS writers, not ehow writers. And since the hand selected few are being kept secret, my guess is no one will be making $80 an article. I honestly believe it was just a stunt to get free press, which it has done. You have to understand how DS and ehow operate, their practices have been very questionable as of late. Let me attempt to explain a bit clearly what has happened. Ehow is expanding into the UK, I think we all understand that. Ehow cloned all the USA writers articles onto the UK site, so the site would have legs under it until it got going. Ehow made money from ads on those articles, but never reported this back to the USA writers, worse, they redireted the earnings into a ehow account and never shared any of that money with the USA writers. Word got out and ehow was forced to remove all of the USA articles, this is a fact. So the UK site now desperately needs content, and thus needs to get press coverage to attract those writers it desperately needs for the UK site. DS and ehow came up with a clever plan to put a story out there that ehow writers, a select number, will now be making $80 per article. We all began to ask as soon as the story broke, which ones are going to get the $80 per article and how do we get our names on the list. The reply was that this program is not open to ehow writers, only DS writers whose work also is posted on the ehow site. When asked for the names of any writers who are getting $80 per article, ehow and DS is silent, they can't give you names because I don't think anyone is being paid $80 per article. The whole thing is a PR ploy. But please don't miss the whole point, which was they (ehow and DS) wanted people in the UK to think that some ehow writers were making that kind of money, and as I have stated, not one ehow writer makes or will ever make $80 per article. As I have tried to explain, it is not, as you have stated, ehow writers who will be earning $80 per article. Ehow and DS wanted people to think this, to stir up news reports on its expandsion into the UK. Rich, the Manager at ehow has said himself no ehow writers will be making $80 per article. The hand selected few are DS writers, not ehow writers. And since the hand selected few are being kept secret, my guess is no one will be making $80 an article. I honestly believe it was just a stunt to get free press, which it has done. You have to understand how DS and ehow operate, their practices have been very questionable as of late.
Let me attempt to explain a bit clearly what has happened. Ehow is expanding into the UK, I think we all understand that. Ehow cloned all the USA writers articles onto the UK site, so the site would have legs under it until it got going. Ehow made money from ads on those articles, but never reported this back to the USA writers, worse, they redireted the earnings into a ehow account and never shared any of that money with the USA writers. Word got out and ehow was forced to remove all of the USA articles, this is a fact.
So the UK site now desperately needs content, and thus needs to get press coverage to attract those writers it desperately needs for the UK site. DS and ehow came up with a clever plan to put a story out there that ehow writers, a select number, will now be making $80 per article. We all began to ask as soon as the story broke, which ones are going to get the $80 per article and how do we get our names on the list. The reply was that this program is not open to ehow writers, only DS writers whose work also is posted on the ehow site. When asked for the names of any writers who are getting $80 per article, ehow and DS is silent, they can’t give you names because I don’t think anyone is being paid $80 per article. The whole thing is a PR ploy. But please don’t miss the whole point, which was they (ehow and DS) wanted people in the UK to think that some ehow writers were making that kind of money, and as I have stated, not one ehow writer makes or will ever make $80 per article.

]]> By: Susan http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Susan Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:52:02 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-558 To Patrick Smith: What is your response to the allegations of hundreds of U.S. eHow writers that articles written pursuant to revenue sharing agreements were copied ("mirrored) by Demand Media onto its "U.K" eHow site in 2009 to avoid paying contracted-for compensation and/or to inflate eHow's value at the same time Demand Media was courting a buyer for eHow? To Patrick Smith: What is your response to the allegations of hundreds of U.S. eHow writers that articles written pursuant to revenue sharing agreements were copied (“mirrored) by Demand Media onto its “U.K” eHow site in 2009 to avoid paying contracted-for compensation and/or to inflate eHow’s value at the same time Demand Media was courting a buyer for eHow?

]]> By: The middle of the end for quality journalism « Fine ale and cheap wine http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/03/exclusive-demand-media-now-accepting-uk-canadian-freelance-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-506 The middle of the end for quality journalism « Fine ale and cheap wine Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:59:44 +0000 http://psmithjournalist.com/?p=402#comment-506 [...] The interview, conducted by freelance journalist Patrick Smith, is well worth listening to as it offers a window into the minds of those who are beginning to pull the strings in the publishing industry. [...] [...] The interview, conducted by freelance journalist Patrick Smith, is well worth listening to as it offers a window into the minds of those who are beginning to pull the strings in the publishing industry. [...]

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