[Ipg-smz] :-| Speaking of dubious get-work sites for writers...

[Rob Reilly]

Daniel,

Maybe you could scale up by creating a bunch of impressive pen-names.
Then start citing yourself. Pretty soon you'd have a whole army of
sources and might never even have to come up with any new material.
Corporate types are always impressed by quantity, right? 

Not to mention that each "author" (really, you) would be getting a
little piece of the pie. It's foolproof.  ;)

Yes, nice to know their algorithms are thinking of you.

drtorq

  On 10/10/19 1:11 PM, Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz wrote:
>
> Ebyline, where I have a free account, in addition to periodically
> sending me client article pitches/offers, usually for some mix of
> way-off-my-turf's and low-ball rates at best, also periodically sends
> me these messages:
>
>    Subject: New Clips Found: Update Your Ebyline Profile
>    Update Your Ebyline Profile
>
>    Hi Daniel,
>
>   Based on previous clips & publications you added to you Ebyline
> profile,
>   we've found 1 recent work example(s) for your portfolio including:
>
> Which in theory is fine, but their engine has a dubious sense of
> "examples" and "recent." Many things they find are citations or other
> not-really-a-work, and then, like today's message, are indeed articles
> that I have written:
>
>    Website basics: How to make your web presence press-friendly
>     -Make contacts and press releases findable and accessible for when
>    journalists come calling.
>
> but fail the "recent" -- this one being from ITWorld.com, August 2, 2010
>
> I have, a few times, pinged them about these low-rent messages;
> eByline unapologetically more or less (I'd have to check my email
> files) says, "Yeah, that's the way our search algorithm does, or
> doesn't, work..."
>
> But it'd good to know their site is thinking about me, I guess :-|
>
> DPD
>
>
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