Friday, March 18, 2011

Another dark side idea

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/03/uncovering-advertising-fraud-scheme.html

I18n consulting

From a post at Noticias Hacker - I contacted the guy in question and it turns out he's interested in outside help to internationalize his site. Cool, say I! A great way to leverage my knowledge of the translation industry and practices, while transitioning back into Web programming.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Old News

This is from Jacques Mattheij's blog, actually (here) - but I've been considering it for some time now, and maybe it's time to start considering harder.

The idea is to track news items over extended periods of time, and do a "how did it turn out" thing periodically. Wikipedia kind of does this for a lot of events as they unfold.

Anyway, this would also be more than just an online venture - you'd need journalists actually following some things up on some sort of schedule. It sounds like a good idea, though. (Though how you'd monetize it is beyond me.)

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Write ebooks for Kindle

Just .... just. 350,000 sales in two months at 99 cents. Given that I could do the ebook formatting/publishing, thereby even cutting out the grand....

You wonder. How easily could you write a metawriter?