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A week ago, I came across the website reddit.com. This is a social news site. People submit stories, and readers vote them up or down. The idea being that the good articles filter to the top and the junk stays at the bottom. I love this idea but I hate this implementation at reddit. It turns out that most of the articles at the top are about reddit.com itself. Why do I care? I don’t want to read news articles about how reddit filters news articles. What I’m looking for is a site that filters CNN, NYT, BBC News and the like. I want it to include people like Paul Graham or Joel Spolsky. It should not restrict what can be submitted, but it should not have a tech geek focus.

I guess I’m taking reddit off of my feed list. The search for a good news source continues…

This is project 10 from Drawing for Dummies.

Chapter 10 introduces composition. This project is based on an S-composition. This is a scan of a work in progress.

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Jennifer Laycock has been writing a series called Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days. She’s starting a website and seeing how far she can go by bootstrapping it on a Google AdWords coupon. So far she’s been running it for 14 days and has brought in about $121 in revenue.

It’s an interesting series because it covers how to get indexed in the major search engines and what the differences are, how to generate income, and how to market your webstore. All of this from the perspective of a web marketer instead of a techie.