The blogging firm Six Apart has come up with a novel way of exploiting journalists who might be facing recession-induced redundancy: start blogging! They've even given it a name and everything - the TypePad Journalist Bailout Programme .
"While we're obviously having a bit of fun with the "bailout" name, this program is something we're serious about. The dollar value for you for the TypePad subscription alone works out to over $150 a year, but we know that for a lot of working journalists, one of the biggest obstacles towards independence can be just trying to figure out where to start. Now you've got an answer," says TypePad.
If you apply, you'll get a free TypePad account, membership of the Six Apart ads programme which shares revenue on ads on your blog, promotion on Blogs.com and a bunch of vague benefits about being able to manage comments from your phone and such like. I'm sure that will be very helpful in trying to feed your family.
Six Apart tells us it "hadn't quite planned on this much of a reaction", so take that to mean the free blog offer will be closed soon.
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