I’ve been looking on the web for freelance opportunities. It seems like nothing is what it appears to be: lots of opportunities for professional bloggers for instance. I’ve now come across an MVP (Microsoft Valued Professional) who is looking for a technical writer to blog on his behalf. Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but it sounds like he’s outsourced his MVP. And another MVP who apparently made his money (and his status as an MVP) by setting up a website providing operating system tips, is advertising the old chestnut of using public domain material to flog. It does sometimes work: Emma Thompson re-wrote “Sense and Sensibility” as a screenplay and made a fortune. Talk about “standing on the shoulders of giants”.

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