Recently I read Darren Rowse’s enlightening post about bloggers-for-hire being paid on a per-post basis.  Darren says the going rate being offered is around $2 to $20 per post… sometimes as high as $100 per post.  That’s a flat one-time fee with no residuals.  If such bloggers stop writing, they stop earning.  And apparently there’s no shortage of bloggers willing to [...]

Two readers emailed me about a story in the Washington Post today about a student who graduated college in only two semesters (plus summer school).  The student, David Banh, even got a double major. The reason people emailed me this story (with some ribbing that I’d been outdone) was that I graduated from college with a double major in three semesters (but no summer school).  [...]