Triond, get paid for creating content: my first impression.
Apr 1, 2008 Computers and Internet
It has been four days and four submitted pieces of content, since I first signed up with Triond.
Triond is a website that allows you to publish content–any content really–and upload it to their website. Some mysterious Wizard behind the Curtain will review what you submit, make sure that it’s original and not published elsewhere, and then publish it for you.
It goes to the various websites Triond has their fingers in, be it pictures or articles. Depending on how many views it gets and whether or not you break past (If I remember correctly) 50 cents, you get paid.
If you’re just beginning to submit and have not done so before, you probably don’t have a larger following of readers, as I do not. I did not expect to be rolling around on the floor in money either, I’m doing this generally for practice and out of love for the one thing I like to do: babble. Oh, I mean, write. Yes.
But four days in and I cannot say that I am entirely impressed.
The idea of Triond is a good one. I don’t have an issue with the way the site is set up, it is easy for me to figure out what I should do and where, it’s simple in its presentation and there are a lot of explainations as to how most things work. But Triond is lacking in two departments: editing and image use in articles.
So far, I haven’t been able to figure out where to find more in depth information as to why, in two of my articles, neither of the images which I uploaded with them were not used. I’ve skimmed a single sentence somewhere that mentioned they may not be used if it doesn’t match the content–but I’m pretty sure pictures taken of my pet cockatiel, Nugget, for a cockatiel article matches? I also have used images I have created and taken myself just to make sure I don’t step on any toes, despite the widely available stock images from several websites. No go. None of my images submitted to Triond’s writing section have yet, showed up.
When it comes to editing, I don’t have a second set of eyes or editor to glance over all of the things I write. Which means no matter how many times I pore (thanks Issa!) over what I’ve written I will always miss one little thing. This was the case with my first article, Five Reasons Why you Can’t Keep me as Reader. There are several grammatical errors that I let slip through, redundant words and a mistakenly used “s” when it should have been a “d”. In hopes of fixing the issues and polishing the article I uploaded the fixed version of the file.
It was rejected. Triond tells me the reason was because-nothing Fixed: Your submitted fix appears to contain nothing to fix. This is really odd, because I was 100% there when I fixed things, rearranged several sentences as well as removed doubled words, clarified several vague and awkward phrases and changed that damn “s” to a “d”.
These two issues make me wonder if it’s worth it, at the moment, to continue with Triond. I make several very small mistakes when ever I write (I bet you’re counting them now) that I need to be able to edit and change possibly several times in a row at any given time during the day. Having that ability taken away from me, as well as having to wait 24+ hours just to see that all the changes I’ve made have been rejected because…A magical something behind a big curtain can’t pick up or recognize new content within the old? How do I compete, then, with my mistaken riddled plain articles that have no images to catch a reader’s eye in comparison to the highly popular articles that are formatted that way?
Seems a might unfair to the little guys, doesn’t it? If we can’t edit our stuff and we can’t put images in it, how are we to attempt our best to get noticed in the sea of text?
Triond isn’t a bad idea. It’s just a good idea not entirely implemented well.
Painted, in honor of NaPoWriMo
Apr 1, 2008 Personal
Pastel touches canvas,
giving light to shaded background.
I’m coloring myself unwanted.
Memory coughs down another lecture of perspective
and I’m ignoring it, blending grays away until
I explode; whispering bright patterns against the dull.
I live my pretend life in pretend beauty,
crying with angels,
dancing with spirits,
kissing pretty boys on their pretty mouths;
happily forever after into a sunset I painted lemonade.
My reds bleed to wistful pink mists,
my forest greens to neon envy.
My mind is the turpentine to all my dreams.
©M. P 2008
Did you know that this month is NaPoWriMo? National Poetry Month is a celebration of all things poetry, from reading it to writing it to learning all about it. Several poets will be taking this month to attempt and write a poem for every day. If you aren’t a poet or a writer of poems, you can still encourage this wonderful artform by doing so many things! Leave a poem in a random place, read a book of them, learn about a form, go listen to some of it being spoken, memorize a favorite!
While I don’t have any ability with poetic form, this month I will be making a conscientious effort in attempting to branch out of my hub of favorite authors. What will you do?
