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Articles archive of freelance journalist Sean McManus
My work has appeared in Internet Magazine, Internet Works, Business 2.0, Marketing Week, The Journalist, The Author, Start and Run Your Business, Amateur Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Bridge design & engineering, Making Music, Melody Maker and Future Music among others. Many of those mags are defunct, but my archive lives on...
About writing and journalism
I've set up a site at www.JournalismCareers.com to answer the most common questions about being a journalist. On this site, there is also:
- Any tips on how to write a novel?
- What are the peculiarities of writing for the web?
- How can you get started as a journalist?
- How can you sell your books online?
- What are my Top tips for successful freelancing?
- How can you strip the hype from press releases?
- How sharp are your proofreading skills?
- and much more in my journalism advice pages...
Music journalism
- At a time when music is being devalued, how can record labels fight back?
- How did Erasure create 40,000 remixes in a limited edition of one?
- Fancy a tour of Mike Oldfield's tubular world?
- Who was the 'first real band of the internet era'?
- What inspired the Inspiral Carpets comeback?
- Are They Might be Giants serious?
These questions and many more are answered in my archive of music articles.
Promoting your music on the internet
- What are my top 15 music promotion tips?
- How can you sell your music on ebay?
- What's the history of filesharing?
- Where can you promote and sell your music online?
- How can you choose a virtual record label?
Website design articles and tutorials
- What happened when Goya learned Javascript?
- Where to start with web analytics?
- How can you promote your site with affiliate marketing?
- How can you make your website more accessible?
- What can you do with serverside includes?
- How can you create a custom 404 error page?
- How can you make a favicon?
- How can you embed fonts in webpages?
- What are the most common domain name scams?
You can also download Castle Fictoria, a website design exercise that provides all the dummy content for your first site.
Science & technology
- How did Brian Eno fit 77 million paintings onto one DVD?
- How can you simulate life on your PC?
- How do stereograms work?
- How was Ironbridge built?
- Where did the internet come from?
Visit my science and technology resources to find the answers to these questions. There are also articles about biometrics and sending smells over the internet.
Webrings
These webrings offer links to other related websites you can explore once you've finished at my site.
