PodCamp
These days, everyone is desperate to be recognized as an expert. But you don’t actually need to be an expert to get paid, and paid well. You just need to be “above average.” Keep It Simple, (for the) Stupid In order to make a living, you only need one thing: the ability to solve someone [...]
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Yesterday, I said you need to be interesting if you want to get paid to be yourself. But producing content that others willingly pay for is only one way to make a living online. What people fail to realize is that everything you do online is part of a living resume. As Doug Derda, the [...]
Having now fully recovered from PodCamp Pittsburgh 4 (including two additional days of travel), I can finally sum up the entire experience in one word: necessary. If you’re like me, you spend more time online every day than you’d like to admit (or than your significant other thinks is sane). You create media, you consume [...]
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Three years ago, Pittsburgh became the second city (after Boston) to host a PodCamp. Now, with PodCamp Pittsburgh 4 happening this weekend, I’m proud to announce that the event I helped to create has just sold out for the first time.* But by “sell out,” I mean in terms of capacity, not ethics. As you [...]
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This weekend, I attended my first Small Press Expo, which is (according to its website) North America’s Premiere Independent Cartooning and Comic Book Arts Festival. My friends Rachel and Josh went last year and they loved it, and since Baltimore is only an hour away from the event’s Bethesda ballroom, I joined them on this [...]
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