Over the years I've had to do a fair bit of writing; for business and pleasure but mostly education. It seemed to me a real waste that all these well researched essays I'd been writing for my various OU courses should end up in a folder at the back of a cupboard, or even worse in the recycling.
With this in mind I set out to turn a few of them into presentable web articles. There are a number of websites that publish user's articles, most notably Squidoo and HubPages. I favour the latter as it seems more intuitive and less 'spammy'. Of course there are also plenty of blogging sites (like this) and software, but here the pressure is to continuously produce articles, not just post, forget about and then rediscover.
So I posted a few of my better essays on HubPages under a psuedonym that I can't even begin to explain! The tumble weed blew around for a while and I went off and did other stuff. Imagine my suprise when I checked back to find that nearly 500 people had read my article on The properties of mammalian phosphofructokinase (PFK). Another essay on the structure and function of neurons has had over 1,600 reads to date.
Whilst these essays served their purpose at the time it's nice to think they are out there and of some use to others.