Suite101 is a Canadian online magazine that publishes articles by freelance writers.  It generates revenue from advertisements and shares the revenue with article writers.  Suite101 was established in 1996 and has published in excess of 300,000 articles by more than 10,000 freelance writers.  Suite101 topic areas focus on lifestyle areas such as home, design, and finance.  Writers, once they are authorized to contribute to the site, may write on any topic, regardless of prior knowledge.  A team of editors reviews each article after it is published.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite101.com

See extract of recent article by Amy Lynn Hess from Suite101:  
John Langshaw Austin first delivered his speech-act theory as a series of lectures at Oxford in 1955.  In those lectures, which were posthumously published with the title How to Do Things With Words, he introduced the notion that there is a type of statement we do not often consider, but a type that is nonetheless “enormously meaningful for ordinary users of language”  Austin called that special type of statement a performative utterance.  When a person makes a performative utterance, that person is performing an action.  Although the action could be performed in some other way, the person chooses to complete the action by uttering the performative words.  For example, a person can give a name to a new kitten by stating aloud, “I name this kitten ‘Bartholomew".  A club member can make a pledge to behave in a manner expected by the club by stating, “I pledge to always behave in a manner expected by the tenets of this club”.  A teacher could assign her class homework by simply stating, “I assign you pages 679-690 in the Richter text as homework”.   Find the three conditions that must be met for statements to be considered performative utterances at the following link.   
http://amylynnhess.suite101.com/what-is-a-performative-utterance-a407590

When it comes to content farms, companies that churn out hundreds or thousands of new pieces of content every day, Demand Media has harvested most of the headlines over the past year.  But it's not the only company out there betting on quantity of content - others include Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo! in May), About.com (owned by the New York Times), Mahalo (founded by Jason Calacanis, who sold his previous business Weblogs, Inc. to AOL in 2005) and Answers.com.   Suite101 is a relatively low profile site compared to the others mentioned above.  Yet it produces 500 new pieces of content per day.  Richard MacManus spoke to Suite101 CEO Peter Berger to discuss why it produces so much content, how it compares to Demand Media, and what Google is doing about content farms.  Read interview with Berger at:  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/content_farms_suite101.php

In the context of the World Wide Web, a content farm (or content mill) is a company that employs large numbers of often freelance writers to generate large amounts of textual content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by automated search engines.  Their main goal is to generate advertising revenue through attracting reader page views as first exposed in the context of social spam.  Articles in content farms have been found to contain identical passages across several media sources, leading to questions about the sites placing search engine optimization goals over factual relevance.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_farm

The name Crimea takes its origin in the name of a city of Qırım (today's Stary Krym) which served as a capital of the Crimean province of the Golden Horde. Qırım is Crimean Tatar for "my hill" (qır – hill, -ım – my).  However, there are other versions of the etymology of Qırım.  Russian Krym is a Russified form of Qırım.  The ancient Greeks called Crimea Tauris (later Taurica), after its inhabitants, the Tauri.  The Greek historian Herodotus mentions that Heracles plowed that land using a huge ox ("Taurus"), hence the name of the land, and thereby asserting that these people named their land, and hence themselves, after an ox used by a mythical, Greek figure.  Herodotus also refers to a nearby region called "cremni or 'the Cliffs" which may also refer to the Crimean peninsula, notable for its cliffs along what is otherwise a flat northern coastline of the Black Sea.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea 

Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey will be the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, the Library of Congress announced on June 7.  "Natasha Trethewey is an outstanding poet/historian in the mold of Robert Penn Warren, our first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry," Librarian of Congress James Billington said in a statement.  "Her poems dig beneath the surface of history--personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago -- to explore the human struggles that we all face."  Born in Gulfport, Miss., in 1966, Trethewey's work has chronicled the complicated history of her own family and that of the South.  As the daughter of a black mother and white father, an interracial union that was still illegal in Mississippi at the time, "it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents," she told the NewsHour in 2006.  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2012/06/natasha-trethewey-named-poet-laureate.html    

When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents.  One floated up on a nearby island.  Two have not been seen again.  But one made an incredible journey across 5,000 miles (8,050 kilometers) of ocean that ended this week on a popular Oregon beach.  Along for the ride were hundreds of millions of individual organisms, including a tiny species of crab, a species of algae, and a little starfish all native to Japan that have scientists concerned if they get a chance to spread out on the West Coast.  "This is a very clear threat," said John Chapman, a research scientist at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon, where the dock washed up early Tuesday. "…   It's incredibly difficult to predict what will happen next."  A dozen volunteers scraped the dock clean of marine organisms and sterilized it with torches June 7 to prevent the spread of invasive species, said Chris Havel, spokesman for the state Department of Parks and Recreation, which is overseeing the dock's fate.  The volunteers removed a ton and a half of material from the dock, and buried it above the high-water line, Havel said.  http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/story/2012-06-08/creatures-japan-tsunami-dock-oregon/55457298/1

Author of more than 27 novels and story collections—most famously "The Martian Chronicles," "Fahrenheit 451," "Dandelion Wine" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes"—and more than 600 short stories, Ray Bradbury died on June 5.  "The only figure comparable to mention would be [Robert A.] Heinlein and then later [Arthur C.] Clarke," said Gregory Benford, a UC Irvine physics professor who is also a Nebula award-winning science fiction writer.  "But Bradbury, in the '40s and '50s, became the name brand."  Much of Bradbury's accessibility and ultimate popularity had to do with his gift as a stylist—his ability to write lyrically and evocatively of lands an imagination away, worlds he anchored in the here and now with a sense of visual clarity and small-town familiarity.  The late Sam Moskowitz, the preeminent historian of science fiction, once offered this assessment:  "In style, few match him.  And the uniqueness of a story of Mars or Venus told in the contrasting literary rhythms of Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe is enough to fascinate any critic."  As influenced by George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare as he was by Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Bradbury was an expert of the taut tale, the last-sentence twist.  And he was more celebrated for short fiction than his longer works.  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/06/local/la-me-ray-bradbury-20120607