A New Writing Community Site is Looking for a Few Good Writers
Published January 8th, 2009 | 
There’s yet another writing community site making it’s debut online. Life123, like every other writing community site offers articles on many different subject. Everything from the usual topics about freelance writing to shaker style furniture. What’s different about this site is that the articles seem to be mostly written by a paid staff, although they are actively encourages writers to join their community and participate in writing articles (I saw know indication that “community” writers are paid for their articles, unlike other writing communities like Suite101 or Helium that have a payment structure of one sort or another).
The weird thing about this site is that this outfit is not marketing itself as an alternative to other writing community sites. Rather, it’s marketing itself as an alternative to Google. The pitch is, if you’re too lazy to use a search engine to find information about a topic, you can come to this website and find an article that will satisfy your query. It’s a creative argument, but ironic and ultimately misguided if you ask me, since the website depends on search engines to drive traffic to the site and is very new so there’s not a great abundance of topics/articles in their database. This is just another writing community site to me. I can’t see where they are filling a niche.
It’s a nice looking website, though, I’ll give them that. Very slick design. Colorful, without being gaudy. Decent menu/navigation system. It scores points for not looking exactly like most similar websites. The content writing quality isn’t bad. Far better than Helium, but not quite as good as Suite101.
We’ll just have to see if this site catches on.
