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Good read

By Tibo ⋅ February 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

If you ever want to become a good web-writer, you’ll find inspiration in this funny and very well written text.

Farm content

By Tibo ⋅ February 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I imagined it could exist but I under-suspected the scale of it. Read this article by the NY Times (of course) about a company who provides content to everyone on the net, creating literal “farm content” where free-lancers are under-paid to write about everything search engines are spotting as commonly sought or of interest for [...]

Writing for the EU: creativity lost?

By Karim ⋅ November 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Belgian service providers are like an episode of Prison Break. Every time you think things can’t get worse, they continue surprising you. There, I’ve put it on paper: my own opinion (although probably shared by many expats here in Brussels). Sharing my opinion with others through written media is something I’ve not been doing for [...]

Back behind the wheel for a week

By Tibo ⋅ June 28, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s not everyday that one can be in someone’s else skin. Well, it happens to me whenever the French editor is on leave: I am his back-up and I write stories and articles until he comes back. It’s not fully Being John Malkovitch but still, I enjoy it.

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