Welcome to your new room!

I went around and around about where exactly to put this -- it's freelancing, yes, but it's also blogging.

Finally, I decided it was its own category, really. So don't bump your shins, because I created a new front page category for freelancing -- and this is now a room of your own, within.

Cheers!

Because the Examiner.com folks were the ones who asked for the room. And it's paid blogging/freelancing, so it's a crossover category, really.

1 -- Frankly, there's been enough bitching (both in the threads and via PM) that at this point, I'm really sort of sorry I didn't just kick those threads over into the blogging forum in the first place, and be done with it.

2 -- Examiner.com and About.com are primarily blog networks. That is, large networks with many, many affiliated blogs. They're paid positions, so it's also freelancing. The various blog-network threads were cluttering up the front page of freelancing to the point that people NOT writing for Examiner were feeling invaded and buried by threads they had no interest in, in spite of having been freelancing for years.

3 -- It's NOT my intention to put all of web-writing in this room. We're not voting on that, because this isn't a democracy. It's called "Blog Networks" because it's a room primarily for people writing for the big blog networks. It's a place to contain the multiple and rampant examiner.com and about.com networking threads, because we have a lot of folks writing for those two blog networks, in particular.