About a month ago Carla Schroder gave me the contact information for a fellow over at O’Reilly who was looking for linux people to write for the O’Reilly weblogs. I sent some writing samples and information about my experience with linux to the editor and to my delight was accepted into the linux blogging group.
It doesn’t pay anything, but I’ve always enjoyed writing the types of articles that O’Reilly was asking for. Previously I posted them on my website, to be seen by a reasonably-sized audience once they were indexed by google, but I figured that getting more friendly with O’Reilly would be a good thing and I’d get more immediate traffic for things I write.
Finally last week I got an email saying my account had been set up and I could start writing things for it. Yesterday I wrote my first weblog entry:
Text-based Communication in Linux.
It’s pretty much the same material I presented at a MontcoLUG meeting a couple months back.