Milt Reynolds: Thinking Out Loud

How to Find, Download, and Credit Images that are Free and Legal I manage several internet blogs and I try to post at least one new article weekly. When I'm feeling inspired I can write several and schedule them for automatic posting. Thus, I am often looking for free, and legal, images to add to my articles. This instructable will show you my method of finding appropriate images, preparing them for uploading, and most importantly, how to give credit to whom credit is due. Language? All of my instructions and examples are based on using a computer with Windows XP as the operating system, Google Chrome as the internet browser, and several specific software programs. I'll give a link to each program as I describe the steps, HOWEVER... all the instructions can apply to any other operating system and browser , as well as many other software programs. Translate all my terms and examples into whatever language/system/platform/program is best for you! Step 1: Write your ar...

Blogging My Keep I've just read an interesting article on the very topic I was bouncing around earlier: Can Blogging provide monetary support? Trent Hamm publishes a website called "Simple Dollar" ( http://www.thesimpledollar.com ). I subscribe to his RSS feed and today's column helps me see the issues much clearer. Here are some of my reactions to his article ( Some Notes on Do-It-Yourself Self-Employment ): Trent started his website simply because he loved to write and he felt like his main interest was something other people could relate to. His website, in the beginning, brought in NO income...he wrote because he enjoyed it. This fits me. I've spent the last two days recuperating from a strained knee, and most of it was spent writing for the internet...none of it earning a dime. I do have a few ads placed on a couple of my sites, but Trent and I both know that they will not pay anything until I get a few thousand faithful readers. But I simply enjoy ...

It is highly satisfying to me to post content on the World Wide Web. I've spent the day updating my blogs and websites, a welcome side-benefit of allowing my strained knee and back to heal today. I know some energetic, smart, and skillful bloggers are successful in supporting themselves, at least partially, by full-time writing on the internet: maintaining blogs, reviewing books and websites, promoting lifestyle changes, supporting others with written resources. To allow my knee to heal, I've spent the last two days resting at home. I've spent most of those hours at my computer. I'm maintaining four active blogging websites, counting this one, as well as a family website. Today I published my first "Instructable", a how-to article with photos and step-by-step instructions, hosted by http://www.instructables.com. I likely will add this site to my daily commitment to writing. None of this work pays, at least not in money. But if it could, I'd do it full-t...