Paul Lagasse: Is it naive of me to hope that companies that continue to “hire” free writers will a) get what they pay for and b) not know the difference, and thus embark on an ever-downward quality spiral that will help make the choice more clear for companies that are willing to pay for quality?

Google’s robots certainly can’t tell good copy from bad, and I have a feeling that “free” remains a quality all its own.

In the fly fishing niche (I write a top blog there), inaccurate, bland, poorly written “articles” appear all the time in Google search results, so apparently “free” has a quality all its own…

Lloyd Lemons: Seems even worse in the digital age, than it was in the dead-tree era.

It’s much worse, though a lot of it has to do with digital writing’s accessibility to parttimers. In the dead tree era, there were bigger barriers to overcome, which eliminated many of the amateurs.

In any case, it is what it is, and adaptability’s the key.

Harlan’s rant will likely fall on deaf ears; the oversupply of writers is sizable, and doesn’t look to be ending anytime soon.
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Stop giving it away dammit! Your intellectual rights and ability are worth gold to those that clamor for them…they make the bucks off your sweat equity and you get an “attaboy.”

There’s an old poem that starts off:

“I bargained with life for a penny…”

READ IT!!!