AI for Creators: Write, Design, Earn, and Advocate

  Blogging is a great way to share what you know with others and to earn extra income.  I am a blogger with 7 blogs, all are written on topics that I love. Since 2008 I have been dedicated to these blogs, posting regularly, sharing by networking and in general - working to make a living at blogging.  When you publish on the Internet you always run the risk of someone stealing your content for their personal gain.  I knew this to be true and took steps to make my RSS feed with FeedBurner to be short -  as  full feed availability was asking for trouble.  Come to find out my blogs were being plagiarized by people burning their own feed and then adding my full feed to their blogs.  My copied blog would then be listed in the SEO for their website and that webmaster would gain traffic as well as earnings from their advertisers.  My content provided them with the keywords and they would get related advertiser.  Which in plain English m...

Sharing information and tips to increase earnings. Increase your passive, residual income. Guest bloggers welcome. Yup it's two in the morning and as sleep eludes me, my mind wanders to an epidemic tidal wave of  cheating I have witnessed on several websites.  Authors are grabbing information from other authors - lifting and in some cases out right copying others work. Photos are being stolen from sites such as CelebBuzz, E!, Google Images, Playboy, Getty, and Popsugar. People are getting so brazen as to crop off the identifying marks of the photos, lifting complete slide shows from Y! and copying unique ideas and angles of other authors work. Copying structure including original observations can lead to copyright claims. Grabbing photos from Google Search Images is THEFT. Just because you see a photo on more than one site - does not make it public domain. Some websites are inadvertently encouraging these actions and other sites are just not cracking down hard...

Sharing information and tips to increase earnings. Increase your passive, residual income. Guest bloggers welcome. In what is the upset of the year, Examiner.com has just cut the pay for slide show views. The result is going to cost writers hundreds if not thousands of dollars collectively on work that was previously contracted and  is already published. Examiner's announcement that it will drastically reduce the flat rate pay per photo view, has caused a gut level reaction.  This pay cut has caused a backlash from writers on the site.  Some vowed to stop leave the site and others have vowed to simply stop publishing the time slide shows altogether.Some writers are regrouping and formulating a plan for their writing  efforts. Much of the anger seems to be focused on the elimination of the local incentive previously given writers. The announcement gave writers only a few days notice with an effective date of May 19th for pay changes. Examiner over the past few mo...

  DENVER, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Examiner.com, the leading online publisher featuring expertise from more than 85,000 contributors, has launched OnTopic, a comprehensive service that provides topic and location specific content at scale for publishers, agencies and brand marketers. By leveraging Examiner.com's pool of vetted subject-matter experts, OnTopic provides a turn-key solution for clients seeking authentic and relevant content to elevate brand visibility, awareness and increase user engagement online. OnTopic individually matches each content request with a qualified contributor that has proven experience in the clients' vertical to deliver consumer-based media across a variety of categories and locations. A New King In Content: Examiner.com Launches Content Marketing Solution OnTopic – MarketWatch   NOTE: This is going to change the world of online writing  - at least for specialized news.  Tell us what you think !!!!!!