In article >,
blake murphy > wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:34:21 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:

> > Actually, not. Have you ever poked around at about.com? I didn't think
> > so. Might be worth wasting a few minutes of your time. The quality
> > varies from bad to worse. They have 750 authors. It's one of those
> > "work from home" scams. There are "editors", but sometimes it seems
> > they know less than the authors.

> rhonda parkinson has a blog on about.com about chinese food. i subscribe
> to her newsletter. she's basically pretty sound, offering both 'authentic'
> ingredients and some substitutions.

Thanks for the tip. Perhaps they have some good authors. Perhaps also,
they are improving. The last year or so, when I do a Google search, and
see about.com, I just don't click on it. I've seen too much poorly
written junk.

> <http://chinesefood.about.com/od/dimsumandpartyrecipes/u/classic_chinese.htm>

Maybe that's the other thing. It's a trick. When people do a Google
search, they assume that the first part of the URL is what the site is
about. For the URL above, that would be "chinesefood". Well, it's not.
It's "about.com".

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

"[Don't] assume that someone is "broken" just because they behave in ways
you don't like or don't understand." --Miche