Recent purges of the writer rolls by Demand Media editorial have generated an uptick in our our correspondence from fellow freelancers. Their system is broken. The writer evaluation program is designed more to purge the writer roles than to justly evaluate scribes. Moreover, Demand Media may be systematically turning rejected articles into published pieces. Writers are denied payment for their work, but rejected writing appears to pass through the DMS system to later be monetized by Demand Media. Our Demand Studios Sucks forums exist to alleviate the power imbalance between freelancers and the company. [...]
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Archive for the ‘Writing’ CategoryDemand Studios contractors are beginning to freak out about the lack of titles and information coming from Demand. On the flip side, Demand is being pretty dickish about not putting out any kind of information at all about the dearth of titles. “We, as the freelance community of Demand Studios, demand that we be given real, precise and frequent updates as to the status and reasons behind the disappearance of titles from our lists and queues.” [...] Writer tells DMS to shove it. [...] How to Get Caught Cheating Hey kids, Another followup from a DSS regular on the Livestrong fiasco. We’re always happy to throw up (and we do mean that) an article on the front page here from one of our loyal readers. You’d think that after the folks at Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong Foundation saw the post about Demand Media advertising for LiveStrong writers with no experience, they’d have cut ties with Demand. Nope. Which means Demand doesn’t have to be worried about cleaning up its act. Just read this string of comments from [...] How Not to Suck Hey DSSers, P-duffy here. Hope your Memorial Day was great and you drank a lot of beer. More importantly, I hope you were cranking out the articles for Demand’s Holiday Funtimes Great Club! This just came in, don’t know how many of you kids are with Bright Hub, but this is interesting news. Bright Hub got hit just as bad as everyone else with the recent Panda changes, but instead of sitting around and bitching (I’m looking at you, Suite101), they’re doing something about it. They’re RAISING [...] How to Get Caught Cheating Hey DSSers, Hope this holiday weekend finds all of you well and hope all your DS wishes come true. This is a guest post sent in by one of you loyal DSSers out there. Told you we print ‘em. Why don’t you send one in? Paging Lance Armstrong (and Rachel Ray, Tyra and anyone else dumb enough to trust Demand).
The following actually appears on the Demand Web site (fuck you, AP) in its request for writer applications for LiveStrong: #1 – “Resume lack direct writing experience? Make sure to highlight your expertise [...] How To Program for DS It’s probably been changed by now, but for about 10 or 15 minutes there it was possible to see one of the SQL passwords for the database where Demand stores all their Paul Mann articles. Thumbs up to CE Cluebat in the forums who first pointed this out. Looks like they’ve fixed it all, but it was still pretty funny while it was going on. Pretty good password, too – “WZn09UEy”. Very savvy. Richard is very keen on interweb security, I still remember one of the first passwords he taught me back in those halcyon dot [...] How Demand Sees Its Writers Hey DSSers! Back once again with another guest post for the front page here. Loyal DSSer, D. Mann-Zuchs has a few choice words to say about Demand’s new Demand Media Studio’s People’s Choice Awards, and they’re some doozies. Like what you read? Don’t like it? Quit bitching and send in an editorial of your own. Demand Media Studios’ latest misstep has some writers seething, others eating out of the palm of its hand and five enjoying sizable bonuses. Rather than pay writers and editors the going rate for quality articles, the company [...] How to Be POD People Hey kids, Well, someone didn’t like our Tyra inside info enough to give us some really juicy tidbits. This one comes with footnotes and everything. Enjoy! ==== If you’ve been writing for DM Studios for over a year and a half, and especially if you write home & garden or tech titles, chances are you have some old articles for the publisher “COD” listed. They were very simple and were approved quickly. That project was for Pluck on Demand (“C”OD may or may not have been a data entry typo for “P”OD). The articles, and videos, were held in [...] |
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