Monthly Archives: June 2007

Knowledge Economy (Drucker) vs. Web Economy (Zelenka)

June 4, 2007 – 2:22 pm

After I wrote my busy vs. bursty manifesto for Web Worker Daily, I was handed an insight by Matt Hodgson who said he found my thoughts “rather uninsightful.” He said I “should have been talking about the knowledge economy.”
I agree, I should set the web economy against the knowledge economy, because they are two different […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Web 2.0 | Comments (6)

10 Quotes on Writing from William Zinsser, Author of On Writing Well

June 2, 2007 – 1:57 pm

To inspire and motivate myself as I prepare to write a book this summer, I reread some of William Zinsser’s On Writing Well. I’ve pulled out ten of my favorite quotes to share with you:

“Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Career, Writing | Comments (5)

On Book Contract Non-Compete Clauses

June 1, 2007 – 4:30 pm

I’m thisclose to signing a book contract with Wiley to write a book on web workerhood under the brand of Web Worker Daily and we had some back and forth over the non-compete clause. While I understand why publishers would include a non-compete clause, I don’t think that authors should accept anything more than the […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Career, Media | Comments (8)