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Brijit tells you what's worth reading
Want to keep up on the kind of news and cocktail party talk you can only get from long, detailed, and occasionally dry magazine articles, but don't have the time? Let Brijit do the reading for you.Brijit is a new magazine abstract service. The site includes 100 word abstracts (or shorter) describing the key points of articles from about 60 magazines, TV news programs, and newspapers. The summaries are written by avid readers who are paid about $5 a pop. It's probably not worth your time unless to sign up as a writer unless you were planning on reading a lot of articles anyway. But if you are, you can add value to the site while making a few bucks.
Writers also rate the articles, so you have a good idea whether you want to read the full article at a glance. While this convention certainly makes Brijit a lot more useful, it does make us wonder whether Brijit can afford to continue paying writers to crank out abstracts of articles with one or fewer stars. Because seriously, who's going to read even the 100 word synopsis of that article?
Since each abstract links to the original article, we hope Brijit won't get on the nerves of content producers.
[via Read/WriteWeb]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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JeremyB said 11:03PM on 10-29-2007
Brad:
Glad to know you're liking what we're doing. Thanks for the good wishes, and please keep the feedback coming. In the meantime, two quick points:
First, we know $5-8 per abstract is considered too little by some. But we've found that abstractors with a little experience can produce 3-4 publishable abstracts per hour, and earn $15-per hour in the process. Add near-total flexibility on when and how much you work, and we think writing for Brijit is a pretty sweet gig.
Second, in the coming months we'll be expanding our coverage universe nearly every week. All high-quality long-form content (print-, radio-, tv-, and Web-native) is in our sights, not just magazine articles.
Best,
Jeremy Brosowsky
Founder & CEO, Brijit
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