Demand Media Studios clarifies “inappropriate” or “bad” titles. These include a title or subject that appears illegal (gambling, drugs, violence, etc.), dangerous (homemade guns, rocket launchers, bear petting, etc.), sexually explicit (adult-oriented; exceeds a PG rating) or discriminatory (homophobic, racist, sexist, etc.). [...]
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Archive for the ‘Title Clarification’ CategoryHow To Be A Newspaper (Or How To Eventually Get Tired of Trying to Come Up With Clever Captions) Hey DSSers! Hope your weekend is a great one. A helpful reader dropped me this story from the Los Angeles Times about working for Demand Studios. Here’s a little bit: Welcome to the infuriating brilliance of the DS model, which succeeds precisely because it is a tangle of gray contradiction rather than the black-and-white operation its detractors claim to see. DS contributors and editors are at once faceless output devices and emotional human beings, evidence that the more we’re treated like [...] How to Become the Next Demand Studios Man, oh, man, like I said, the mailbag is getting full! Just got this in from Logan: Great site! I just started with DS and am trying to learn the ins and outs of the site. First of all, thanks for reading Logan! Hopefully we can help steer you through some of the madness. She continues… The biggest problem I have is actually selecting titles. How do you choose titles? Do you search with keywords? Categories? I’m trying to find the most bonerific titles that can be written with the least amount of effort, of course. Thanks a [...] How to Grow Weed! Yes, each week (or whenever I get around to it) I , your humble host comb through the Demand Studios “Title Clarification Forum” to bring you some of the weird, wonderful and just plain stupid titles that the DS super secret cyber computer spits out and hands to us writers to create articles from. And the latest entry in this category is a classic: HOW TO GROW WEED CUTTINGS Now the reason that the title showed up in the clarification forum is because a DS writer had a question about the title. Here’s what they wanted to know: Does this refer to propagation [...] Build this in 300 words! The titles at Demand are all generated by a computer program. This program looks at what people are searching for on the web and then spits out a title for an article on that subject. This results in some rather humorous article titles (ie: The “How to Toss Someone’s Salad” incident). There’s a forum on the Demand Writers page where you can ask for clarifications regarding these titles. I’d just like to touch on some of these funny ones from time to time. The one I stumbled across today was “How to Build an Indoor Gun Range”. Lord help us all [...] |
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