Category Archives: Suite 101

It’s Not So Sweet in Suite-land

On February 23rd or 24th, Google changed their main ranking algorithms. Over years and months Google had figured out that a lot of web content wasn’t really original content. Unscrupulous writers had “scraped” material from other sites, typically reputable sites, and passed it off on their own sites as if it were original material. So …

March 4, 2011 – 1:34 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Suite 101 | Comments (0)

Posts in Real Time

I have been away on a working vacation from February 17 until today. I attended the annual conference of the International Erosion Control Association, where I delivered three papers, met a lot of the leadership, and attended my first meeting as a member of the Professional Development Committee. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday were all business. The …

February 28, 2011 – 5:13 am | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Documenting America, freelance writing, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

Another Snow Day, a Little Bit of Progress

The forecast was for 4 to 10 inches, then 4-9, then 4-8. Last night at 11 PM the storm was hanging out just north of us, and I wondered if it would pass by to the north. I set the alarm to get up at the normal time, in case the forecasters had it wrong. …

February 9, 2011 – 9:40 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Documenting America, Suite 101, Writing | Comments (0)

A Chapter Here, An Article There

So far this weekend has been productive. I wrote and posted one article at Suite101.com. I don’t think it’s one of my better articles, but it’s up and available for making money. I wrote a chapter in Documenting America. This was with research and writing complete in one day. I also did a little bit …

February 6, 2011 – 10:13 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Documenting America, freelance writing, Mom's Letter, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

More Snow, More Writing

Beginning last week the weather folks were predicting a major winter storm for Tuesday. By Sunday some of the numbers had firmed up: 6-12 inches in our area. So Monday morning, to allow me to get to work the next two days over short, flat roads, I packed to stay two days in town with …

February 2, 2011 – 10:19 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Documenting America, self-publishing, Suite 101, Writing | Comments (0)

The Storm is Almost Here

The winter storm that is so much in the news is bearing down on us. The winter storm warning from the National Weather Service starts at 6:00 PM tonight for us, so that probably means we’ll start getting some frozen stuff around 8 PM. The forecast has called for sleet, ice, snow, mixture—it keeps changing. …

January 31, 2011 – 1:47 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Documenting America, freelance writing, Suite 101, Writing | Comments (0)

The Schedule is Getting Crowded

I mostly took yesterday evening off from writing. The reason? My wedding anniversary. Our 35th. We had plans to go out to eat. I scheduled a 4 PM meeting with a client who is only three or so miles from the house, which put me home about 4:30 PM. But we stayed home. Lynda had …

January 25, 2011 – 1:23 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Documenting America, Suite 101, Writing | Comments (0)

The Freelance Writing Report

I wrote yesterday that I had a good day of writing, being at home due to the snow storm. That continued into the evening, as I completed the research on the next chapter of Documenting America, and wrote most of it. I also did the work I needed to do on Life Group class teaching …

January 21, 2011 – 9:36 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, freelance writing, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

Two Nights of Research and Writing – What a Concept!

After my post from work on Monday, about needing to have writing available worthy of eSP, I came home and took the evening to research and write. I had already done some research into my next genealogy article at Suite101.com, so I decided to write the article. I did so, it taking less than an …

January 19, 2011 – 3:47 am | By David Todd | Posted in Documenting America, self-publishing, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

The Plagiarism Posse

The writers at Suite101.com have become more active lately at fighting plagiarism and copyright infringement of their articles. Of course, that’s happened to me twice (that I know of): once at a site called gogreentoolbox.com, and one recently at a site called Market Mentalist. I’ve seen a number of my articles listed at news aggregation …

December 10, 2010 – 10:02 pm | By David Todd | Posted in content writing, copyright, plagiarism, Suite 101 | Comments (0)