Why Triond Runs The Quality Challenge

Some few are happy, many are unhappy about Triond running a quality challenge for the second time. While quality has nothing to do with it as we all know, there is a reason to doing it all the same. You might have guessed that Triond is not spending those extra dollars just to make us happy, didn’t you?

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Unresolved: Why Triond Needs to Step Up its Editorial Work

Since my initial article, nothing much has changed on Triond. Articles are still published in plagiarised versions. And I found a second interesting group of articles: Double publications by the same author. Begs the question: What is going on here? (Or rather, why is nothing being done?)
Following my article Why Triond Needs to Step Up its Editorial Work I expected Triond to react a bit more robustly than by issuing a statement that they have closed down the account of the offender. In fact, they were in so much haste to do that they missed out on one article included in my first publication.

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Why Every Triond User Should Have an Expertscolumn Account, Too

A Triond friend of mine recently advised me to open an account with Expertscolumn to republish my articles. While I do that sporadically, I found a reason as to why every Triond (and any other writer for all that) user should have an account there, even if they do not intend to publish there.
Expertscolumn is a publishing site based in India. While it offers you the possibility to submit articles, the choice of possible subjects is quite limited as opposed to the freedom we enjoy on Triond. But unlike Triond, they do not insist on original material and allow you to republish articles you have published on other sites. Al they ask is that you use the same user name as on the original publishing site.

Join Expertscolumn via this link.

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The Extraordinary Gift of Offending People

Being offensive is an easy thing to do and something most people are quite good at; doing it intelligently, though, is a literary achievement. Auberon Waugh was a master of this craft and excelled at finding the hornet’s nest where none existed before.
William Cook’s Kiss Me Chudleigh: The World According To Auberon Waugh was published by Coronet. While the book is classified as a biography, I hesitate to dump it on that pile without a rider; it is as much a biography as it is a literary guide to Waugh’s writing complete with explanations by Cook.

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Triond Writing Facts and Family Support

Several writers have been commenting on writing on Triond recently, and I liked what they said. But some things seem not to be included in these articles. I therefore decided to have a go at it and see if I can clarify some things, to myself as well as to others. More

Apostrophic Apostrophe?

Many writers, and I don’t mean specifically Triond writers, seem to have lost the touch for properly used apostrophes in English. Is this apostrophe’s demise? Or should I rather say apostrophes demise? More

Is It Worthwhile to Write News Items for Triond?

After reading the comments on my news article on Roman Polanski, I asked myself if it is worthwhile writing news items for Triond at all. As I knew the reaction of ‘that is old news’ from myself reading other writers’ news articles, I found it necessary to raise the question for all to consider. More