Hi all! I would like to tap your esteemed opinions and in-depth knowledge of all interesting things yet again. (Thanks to

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Hey friends. I've been keeping most of this over at sexposjawards , but consider this one quick personal appeal for a leetle bit of cash. I know none of us has much, but there's been such positive response, I really want to be able to follow through and properly award and promote our winners. We're close, but not there yet. Consider it your blow against " ( Read more... )

Anyone want to tell me their tales of night-before-(a great)-wedding woe for this year's Metroland Bridal Wedding Guide? (now renamed in the spirit of gender equality)

Here's the topic:
Performers know the adage that a bad dress rehearsal makes for a good performance. This applies to weddings too. The night before, when
family starts to arrive, the ( Read more... )

A wiser LJ user than I pointed out that the awards should really have a LJ community, not an individual journal, so that people could join without giving an unknown person access to their friends-locked posts. So I've edited my last post, and now there is the
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I've been making veiled, or not so veiled, references to this for a year or so, but our website is finally live, and now the fun begins! Yes, it's becoming reality:
The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards (aka the "Sexies")

(Many many kudos to Patrick of Ultravirgo for all his work on the splendid website, right up until the days before the birth of his ( Read more... )

Hey all! I've got another request for input for an article--this is for a green living how-to piece ( Read more... )

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Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class, wants to hear about it.
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Ever made a "bad" move? Ever picked a city and then found it was wrong for you and your loved ones?   And then had to do it all over again?

Last fall when I asked for location stories for my new book, Who's Your City, we were ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any experience with paid blogging?

How does it usually work? Monthly? Dependent on readership/ad revenue? Some combination? Please share.

I'm going to be teaching a weeklong, three hour per day class in publishing at the Summer Institute at the College of St. Rose this July. The class will be composed of up to 20, though probably more like 12 to 15, 6th through 10th graders (listing to the younger end, I'm told ( Read more... )