Submitting Post Ideas Or News To Techdirt
from the just-a-reminder dept
Over the years we've certainly grown a lot, and so, we have lots of new readers and we get a ton of stories submitted -- which is great -- but I wanted to run a quick post reminding people that the best way to submit a story is to use the story submission page. This makes it easy to track, manage and format story submissions. It is, by far, the best way to submit a story. Also, when submitting a story, please make sure to include a title (preferably a descriptive one). It also helps to give a brief description of the story and why you think it's interesting -- or, if you're ambitious, feel free to write a thorough analysis yourself. Submissions with no title, or just links often get ignored in the pile. If something is particularly urgent, alerting us via a message directed at our Twitter account can work as well, but there's a lot of noise there, and sometimes stories get lost, so use the submission page as well. We're thrilled that so many people want to help out and participate in the community here, so thanks to our fans for all those great story submissions. These days, we get probably three times as many good story submissions as we can write up, so we apologize if we don't cover everything sent in, but the quality of story submissions has grown quite a bit in the last few years, and it helps keep this site dynamic and interesting -- so thanks to everyone for pitching in.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Two words: Carrier pigeon....
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A thought
But, I just thought I'd point out that at least one person is interested anyways, and I'm a bit curious if any others are.
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Your Title
Original Tile
Source URL's (split into Tech dirt and external)
first 200-500 characters of the story submitted
Then insiders/submitters would be your dupe prevention. As they could see what was there already. It wouldnt be perfect but it would cut down on the dupes.
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It is always exciting for me
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Thanks!
mikeho
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New topics?
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If you see a topic that's appropriate -- choose it from the drop-down selection... if not... well.. we'll choose one of them for you. :P
Any suggestions for new topics?
Thanks!
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1. Helmet's Heroes
2. What Dark Does
3. How to welcome your new Helmeted Overlord
4. Monikers that rhyme with Nark Schmelmet
5. Requests for Dark Helmet paid appearences
That oughta get you started...
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1) Stuff Mike will never publish
2) Stuff Mike will make fun of
3) Stuff that goes against Techdirt Mantra
4) Stuff Mike is trying to ignore
So far so good?
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DRM and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Unintended Consequences
Press Release - Delete Me
Live From Under a Bridge
We Be Shillin
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Kids, don't do what Mike says.
A few good examples of titles are:
"Chinese food again? So when will Techdirt be investigated for animal abuse?" and "Don't Jump! Why is Dennis Yang on the Bay Bridge eating a hoagie?" or "Shocking! When did Tiger Woods takes golf lessons from a real Scottsman named Mike Masnick?" and "Exclusive! PR Person finds way to navigate treacherous website. Successfully submits a story"
Okay, maybe not the last one. But, I could go on. The point is that this way, your stories have a much higher probability of being read.
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I actually really enjoyed those!
I'd like to add: "Heh, and other ways to express wry humor..."
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Although I think that is based on if you typed in your email, not really based on just your name.
I suppose it depends on what you had entered when you submitted the others.
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Luckily for me, there are very few Rose M. Welch's on the Internet.
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