website of the week: Triond

looking to make a little money on the side? consider writing articles for Triond.com! they pay you monthly royalties depending on how much exposure and popularity your article receives on one of their participating blogs.

it's totally free to sign up and write articles, but in order for them to approve your article, it must meet basic writing and styling guidelines.

publish a few highly visited articles and you could get some nice side income!

also, if you're a writer like myself especially, you should read the user agreement in full. it has some very important publishing and content rights information.

in case you don't want to read the whole thing, here are some sections i think should be noted:

4. Content. You hereby understand, acknowledge, undertake, represent and warrant that any Original Content sent by you with the intention it be published on the Site shall comply with the following requirements: (i) be your original work; (ii) shall have not been previously publicly published, in whole or in part, on the Internet or in any other media (iii) shall not contain any content of any kind whatsoever that is libelous, illegal or infringes any third parties' copyrights; (iii) if any third parties' copyrights are included in the Original Content, the express, unrestricted and unlimited permission of such copyrights owner for the use of such copyrighted materials has been obtained prior to submitting the Original Content; (iv) shall not contain any derogatory, offensive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, vulgar, profane, abusive, harassing, obscene, pornographic, defamatory or tortuous content;

5. Rights Granted . By submitting your Original Content for publication on the Site, you hereby irrevocable and unconditionally grant Triond, and any of its affiliates (hereinafter also referred to as "Triond"), a irrevocable, perpetual, unlimited free of charge and exclusive right to publish the Original Content on the Site and/or on other Internet Sites the Original Content shall be referred to by Triond (hereinafter also referred to as the “Site”), as Triond shall deem suitable under the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as well as allow I users of the Site to view and further use the Original Content, free of charge, for any such purpose permitted by Triond, provided such use shall not be for profit generating purposes. Without derogating from the above, Triond shall be entitled to edit, delete, cutback, rephrase, reproduce, copy, translate, merge, add, use and make use of the Materials, in whole or in part, in any way or manner and at any time, as Triond shall deem appropriate in its sole discretion.

6. Author's Rights. You shall continue to retain all authorship and copyrights to the Materials submitted for publication through the website.

you can read about how it works and decide if it's right for you.