For those of you considering joining professional organizations, take this into account:
The head of the Society for Professional Journalists' freelance committee
just resigned, citing SPJ's support of publishers and against freelancers looking to defend their contracts. Or at least that's one perspective.
To get a broader look at the issues at stake here, consider reading Erik Sherman's
blog on the subject.
This will be especially interesting, I imagine, for the legal writers among us.
What do you think?