Volunteering to Help How You Can Help Keep This Site Running

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So, you want to help us keep Freak Nation running? Wonderful! We can always use a few more hands to help keep things running smoothly; keeping a site this size stocked with fresh content isn’t as easy a job as it looks like. Here are the things that we need the most desperately:

• News Editors: The problem with news is, it doesn’t stay new. We need someone who has good sources of up-to-date freak news, and who can spend a little time each day posting news briefs. We particularly need people with good lines of news about comics and the comics industry (DC, Marvel, Vertigo and independents), games and the game industry (both RPG/LARPs and computer/video games), and upcoming movies and TV shows. if you can only handle one of these areas, that’s still a big help.
• Reviewers: There’s far more going on than we could possibly have enough time to write reviews of; just on television, there are new episodes of BSG, SG1, and/or Atlantis every week, and then there are movies, comics, and books... A couple of people who can commit to writing a review a week, and then do so, reliably, would be worth their weight in gold. (Sadly, we can’t actually pay anything.)
• An Advertising Coordinator: This person would be responsible for contacting potential advertisers and convincing them to advertise on Freak Nation. This would also include thinking of who to contact, and being the point person for all ad-related communication. Plus, this person would be responsible for putting Freak Nation ads on other sites, as soon as we have the budget for that.

If you think you could handle any of these recurring, ongoing responsibilities, please contact the webmaster and describe what you can do. He’s eagerly awaiting your email.

Of course, we always need more content. Poetry, fiction, articles, rants, reviews and essays... without new content on the site, there’s no reason for anyone to come here, or for us to keep the server running. So if you want to send in a submission from those categories, that’s a great way of keeping us going. In that case, you’ll want to have a look at our submission guidelines (if you haven’t already).

By the way, if the word “essay” makes you think “Ugh! I always hated writing those in high school,” you might want to consider Paul Graham’s view: that high-school essay-writing is completely backwards, and that writing essays at all is a form of subversive disobedience. His... um, essay on this idea is worth a look.

Finally, it never hurts to link to us. If you have a Web site, you can grab any of our link graphics from our linking policy page, or just use a text hyperlink such as the following code:

<a href="http://www.freaknation.com/">Freak Nation</a>

All that we ask is please, don’t use this code to post link-spam all over blogs and other parts of the Web. We don’t approve of such pollution, and we don’t need the exposure that badly. Thank you.