August 13th, 2010
Loki, one of our bloggers at SixEstate, passed along an article by AOL editor Lori Fradkin, “What It’s Really Like To Be A Copy Editor.” It resonated with me big time. Fradkin writes,
When I left to take a non-copyediting position at....
August 11th, 2010
SixEstate co-founder Steve O’Keefe was a guest on Cover to Cover on Saturday, April 24th. Cover to Cover is a podcast that focuses on books and the publishing industry, produced by Frank Gromling of Ocean Publishing.
A link to listen to the segment....
August 9th, 2010
“Copyright is for losers,” infamously proclaimed graffiti artist, political activist, and “Britain’s newest national treasure” Banksy in his book, Wall and Piece. Banksy’s artistic genius aside, we respectfully disagree.....
July 30th, 2010
Crediting your news and image sources in a certain way, as well as tagging your news sources, can do wonders in terms of blog optimization, not to mention that it can keep you away from getting into legal trouble. At SixEstate, we encourage our bloggers....
July 27th, 2010
Las Vegas-based Righthaven LLC is making money by buying out copyrights to newspaper content and suing blogs and websites that violate those copyrights. Under the Copyright Act, penalties for a single infringement can be as much as $150,000.
Steve Gibson,....
July 23rd, 2010
In his article “7 Tips For Optimizing Your Blog,” Ryan Shaffer advises, “[R]egister your blog, so that it can be indexed more easily and ranked higher.” At SixEstate, we have found it to be true; registering your company website....
July 16th, 2010
Whatever type of blog you have — corporate, personal, or a newsblog — offering superb content alone is not enough to accumulate traffic to your site. Just copyediting that content isn’t enough either; you need to optimize every single....
July 15th, 2010
Comment spam is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Usually, it comes canned and composed of questionable parts — an unfortunate reality, but not impossible to combat.
First of all, there is a vital difference between spam and a real comment. Spam....
July 9th, 2010
Let’s optimistically assume that all printed books go through at least one round of copyediting. With print publishing having to cope with economic recession, there’s still hope that the industry standards have not dropped beyond reasonable.
Grant....
June 8th, 2010
The 2010 edition of The Associated Press Stylebook contains a new section on social media guidelines. The style rules, published by the global news network Associated Press (AP), help provide consistency for news providers on things like spelling and....
