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The world of freelance writing is beset by hoaxes and scams. Perhaps you know this to your cost. You’ve been scammed by -

* The e-testing scam (”just write an article/ a chapter/ five pages for us, so we can assess your skills”) - this is a sleazy way of getting free content;

* “Write for us for exposure” really means “write for us because we’re too cheap to pay for content - we also have no clue about running a profitable business”;

* Paying reading costs to agents. You do not pay agents up front, ever. They negotiate contracts for you for which they receive 15 per cent of whatever the project earns over time.

Here’s a very funny article “If You Forward This You Do Not Have a Brain . . .” | Cathy Stucker which gets you up to speed on hoaxes and scams:

“Reason number one: This is a hoax. Ask yourself why the billionaire would only help if a bunch of people forward emails? If they don’t–oh, just let her die. Does that make any sense to you? And even if this billionaire had some reason for doing things this way, how would he? How would he know how many people forwarded the message?”

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If you’re not feeing paranoid, you will be when you read: Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil

From the short story:

She stiffened as soon as he asked the question. One of the dogs began to whine. She looked around, then nodded up at the tennis courts. “Top of the light pole there; don’t look,” she said. “That’s one of our muni WiFi access points. Wide-angle webcam. Face away from it when you talk.”

In the grand scheme of things, it hadn’t cost Google much to wire the city with webcams. Especially when measured against the ability to serve ads to people based on where they were sitting. Greg hadn’t paid much attention when the cameras on all those access points went public—there’d been a day’s worth of blogstorm while people played with the new all-seeing toy, zooming in on various prostitute cruising areas, but after a while the excitement blew over.

Scary stuff.

Have a wonderful chocolatey writing time this Easter - remember, chocolate IS a food group.