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Greetings Internet! My name is Scott Craft, and I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be joining the amazing team here at SFB as a weekend contributor. A bit about me: I’m an IT professional, native Texan, and current Denver resident who you will rarely spot without headphones. An avid fan of hip hop, in my spare time I blog about music, being bipolar, politics, and more at my personal blog “Manic, Chill“. Now back to the news you care about, in the shortest form possible!

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I promise to keep this short. It’s tradition to do so around here, since it’s our name. I’m Sami Main, a spunky writer that is way too excited to be joining the SFB team. I’m a journalism junior at the University of Florida; when I’m not having an opinion about the Oxford comma, I can be found on Tumblr and Twitter. I’d rather be raising the roof than the debt ceiling.

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Hello, readers! My name is Seth, and I’m very excited to announce that I’ve joined the writing team here at ShortFormBlog. So … there it is! I’ve announced it! In keeping with the site’s theme, I’ll keep my introduction short. My previous writings can be found at The Daily Californian and my own blog, Shermanesque. I enjoy politics, cities, workplace shenanigans and 1940’s film-noir aesthetic. I hope you enjoy my presence here, and I’ll now return you to your regularly-scheduled program.

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We like their new advertising service, though. Technorati, a fairly well-known blog search engine that feels like it’s fighting a little bit of irrelevance thanks to Twitter and Facebook, is looking to have some blogs of its own. A number of people got invites from the service to become writers for the site, which is a little strange because of the fact that their main service facilitates traffic for other blogs. We’ll be keeping our eye out. source

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I was always hoping more people would read it, and it would get a lot of comments. Every once in a while I would see this thing on TV about some mommy blogger making $4,000 a month, and thought, ‘I would like that.’
Judy Nichols • Who ran a site called “Rantings of a Crazed Soccer Mom” before she got bored because nobody was actually visiting her site. Nichols isn’t alone by a long shot. 95% of blogs get ditched for similar reasons, or because their authors get too busy. In case you’re wondering, that won’t happen to us. We spend too much time on this to get rid of it. • source

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Who you are You’re a college student who’s into journalism. You live in D.C. You like to write. You have naturally good grammar and your words are loaded with personality. You aren’t long-winded. (This is important.) You’re a newshound. You get the Internet and pop culture. You read DCist, Gawker and TechCrunch and think, “Hey, I can do that.” You want to build experience. You’re self-motivated. You like coffee shops. You hate ties. source

Who you are You’re a college student who’s into journalism. You live in D.C. You like to write. You have naturally good grammar and your words are loaded with personality. You aren’t long-winded. (This is important.) You’re a newshound. You get the Internet and pop culture. You read DCist, Gawker and TechCrunch and think, “Hey, I can do that.” You want to build experience. You’re self-motivated. You like coffee shops. You hate ties.
Who we are We’re a blog. We’re based in D.C. We focus on telling lots of good information in small amounts of space. We pull content from all corners of the Internet and grab the most interesting details. We recontextualize and add personality. We like short sentences and telling good stories. We have hundreds of followers on Twitter and some influential fans. We’re self-motivated. We like coffee shops. We hate ties. source

Who you are You’re a college student who’s into journalism. You live in D.C. You like to write. You have naturally good grammar and your words are loaded with personality. You aren’t long-winded. (This is important.) You’re a newshound. You get the Internet and pop culture. You read DCist, Gawker and TechCrunch and think, “Hey, I can do that.” You want to build experience. You’re self-motivated. You like coffee shops. You hate ties.
Who we are We’re a blog. We’re based in D.C. We focus on telling lots of good information in small amounts of space. We pull content from all corners of the Internet and grab the most interesting details. We recontextualize and add personality. We like short sentences and telling good stories. We have hundreds of followers on Twitter and some influential fans. We’re self-motivated. We like coffee shops. We hate ties.
What we want We have one to two unpaid internships available between mid-May and August. We have years of writing, editing and design experience in the newspaper industry, and we’ll bestow it on you. You get a built-in, growing audience that is literate of the Web and will hang on your every word. You set your own hours (although we’ll hold you to at least 5-10 hours a week). You work in a coffee shop. No ties. Curious? Send a resume. source

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07 Feb 2012 14:17