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We couldn't be more excited to support this here at Mobileworks. We use Premier ourselves to write a bunch of our content. As far as I know, this is one of th

We couldn't be more excited to support this here at Mobileworks. We use Premier ourselves to write a bunch of our content. As far as I know, this is one of the first times a crowd has been embedded in a software application for the general public.

huhtenberg 14y ago
This looks exceptionally useful. However, if you don't mind me asking - how a "college educated crew" reconciles with being "super cheap"? Who are the editors exactly?
- anandkulkarni 14y ago
  Good question. Mobileworks helps folks in the developing world participate in the web's labor economy. Much of our workforce comes from places where prevailing wages are much lower. In this case, the editors are located outside the United States. They're nurses, retired professors, writers, and more.
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  - gamblor956 14y ago
    In other words, people least familar with the idiosyncracies of U.S. grammar, spelling, and linguistic differences... This site is probably still worth it if you are aiming for international English, but it's useless if your audience reads and expects U.S. English. Note that if you are U.S.-based, and your audience will primarily be U.S.-based, you can probably get better quality proofing and editing for not much more by posting Help Wanted's in your local college's student newspaper.
    - anandkulkarni 14y ago
      I gently disagree. Take a look at our blog (dogfooded), and let me know whether you think the editing quality reflects US or international English usage.
      - gamblor956 14y ago
        Edit: Just so that we're clear, I think the dogfooded blog post demonstrates poor proofing in both U.S. and International (U.K.) English. One constant I’ve recognized in my writing is how much feedback I like to have. The constant is not in your writing, but in your writing process. Alternatively, choose a more appropriate preposition, such as "about." This is a subtle error, but one that a US college graduate would have caught. I’ll write an email, and I’ll send a draft to a colleague to see if it’s right. I’ll write an application to something, and get feedback from friends to see if it makes sense. I’ll write a blog post, and send it to my wife. While this is technically correct, it is poor writing. The second phrase in each sentence is logically connected to the first as a continuation of action, so the second phrases should not be set apart as independent clauses. Either eliminate the ", and I'll..." or make them separate sentences. But being a solo entrepreneur and working alone at home, I often find myself stuck, not being able to get a friend to look at my work. It is permissible but not proper to start a sentence with "But" when you are discussing the immediately preceding sentence. It is not okay to start a paragraph with "But." Use "However" or "In contrast" or some such similar word or phrase. Alternatively, move the sentence to the preceding paragraph. My wife can only take so much. A single sentence is not a paragraph. Especially not when it is logically part of the previous paragraph. Unless you are doing it for emphasis. But you already had a single-sentence paragraph, so the emphasis is lost. I got bored of proofing the blog post after that, but it definitely gets worse from that point on and if I were to continue I would have further edits for every single sentence remaining in the post. The level of proofing is perfectly acceptable for a personal blog where you aren't too worried about it being read professionally...but why would you bother pay to have a personal post proofed? If this is the level of quality that can be expected from Draft, it is simply not adequate for any professional purpose.
        RaphiePS 14y ago
        Note that you proofread Nate Kontny's blog, not Mobileworks' dogfooded blog as suggested.
        gamblor956 14y ago
  - JulianMorrison 14y ago
    So basically, a sweatshop?
    - icebraining 14y ago
      If they're being paid a fair salary according to the reality of their location, it's not a sweatshop. Attitudes like that keep developing countries in poverty by preventing them from taking advantage of the few upper hands they have over developed countries.

huhtenberg 14y ago

This looks exceptionally useful. However, if you don't mind me asking - how a "college educated crew" reconciles with being "super cheap"? Who are the editors exactly?

anandkulkarni 14y ago
Good question. Mobileworks helps folks in the developing world participate in the web's labor economy. Much of our workforce comes from places where prevailing wages are much lower. In this case, the editors are located outside the United States. They're nurses, retired professors, writers, and more.
- deleted 14y ago
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- gamblor956 14y ago
  In other words, people least familar with the idiosyncracies of U.S. grammar, spelling, and linguistic differences... This site is probably still worth it if you are aiming for international English, but it's useless if your audience reads and expects U.S. English. Note that if you are U.S.-based, and your audience will primarily be U.S.-based, you can probably get better quality proofing and editing for not much more by posting Help Wanted's in your local college's student newspaper.
  - anandkulkarni 14y ago
    I gently disagree. Take a look at our blog (dogfooded), and let me know whether you think the editing quality reflects US or international English usage.
    - gamblor956 14y ago
      Edit: Just so that we're clear, I think the dogfooded blog post demonstrates poor proofing in both U.S. and International (U.K.) English. One constant I’ve recognized in my writing is how much feedback I like to have. The constant is not in your writing, but in your writing process. Alternatively, choose a more appropriate preposition, such as "about." This is a subtle error, but one that a US college graduate would have caught. I’ll write an email, and I’ll send a draft to a colleague to see if it’s right. I’ll write an application to something, and get feedback from friends to see if it makes sense. I’ll write a blog post, and send it to my wife. While this is technically correct, it is poor writing. The second phrase in each sentence is logically connected to the first as a continuation of action, so the second phrases should not be set apart as independent clauses. Either eliminate the ", and I'll..." or make them separate sentences. But being a solo entrepreneur and working alone at home, I often find myself stuck, not being able to get a friend to look at my work. It is permissible but not proper to start a sentence with "But" when you are discussing the immediately preceding sentence. It is not okay to start a paragraph with "But." Use "However" or "In contrast" or some such similar word or phrase. Alternatively, move the sentence to the preceding paragraph. My wife can only take so much. A single sentence is not a paragraph. Especially not when it is logically part of the previous paragraph. Unless you are doing it for emphasis. But you already had a single-sentence paragraph, so the emphasis is lost. I got bored of proofing the blog post after that, but it definitely gets worse from that point on and if I were to continue I would have further edits for every single sentence remaining in the post. The level of proofing is perfectly acceptable for a personal blog where you aren't too worried about it being read professionally...but why would you bother pay to have a personal post proofed? If this is the level of quality that can be expected from Draft, it is simply not adequate for any professional purpose.
      - RaphiePS 14y ago
        Note that you proofread Nate Kontny's blog, not Mobileworks' dogfooded blog as suggested.
        gamblor956 14y ago
- JulianMorrison 14y ago
  So basically, a sweatshop?
  - icebraining 14y ago
    If they're being paid a fair salary according to the reality of their location, it's not a sweatshop. Attitudes like that keep developing countries in poverty by preventing them from taking advantage of the few upper hands they have over developed countries.