Brijit - Make Money Writing Abstracts for Brijit.com

Interview with founder Jeremy Brosowsky who has remained publicly mum since he and his investors pulled the plug on Brijit.com

The Truncated Life of an Abridging Site
Marketplace, December 5, 2008

Brosowky's latest venture in content mashing. The one page web page solicits e-mails promising...

Great Content. Only Shorter.

"Millions of people are fed up with their piled-up magazines,unwatched TiVos, and overstuffed RSS readers. We'll save you time and expand your mind by providing you with concise summaries of the world's best, most-trusted sources, at work and at home."

I'm a little confused after Brosowksy invested $$$ in Brijit why he would do something similar but then have to re-brand again except that Brijit was kind of an odd duck of a name whereas Summary Machine defines content aggregation somewhat better.

I wish Jeremy the best of luck in obtaining funding in this downward economy as the idea was brilliant in concept and he and his colleagues treated writers fairly well right to the end and he earns my respect in that regard.

SummaryMachine.com

As an online freelance writer, Brijit.com was a terrific venue to hone your craft in 100 words or less. I was wondering what was happening at the end of the day Wednesday when the number of articles left to abstract dwindled down to barely a handful and thought maybe the site was getting extremely popular with writers but alas Brijit.com is no longer in operation.

Unfortunately Brijit.com follows a similar fate as previous ventures by founder Jeremy Brosowsky, whose former company Business Forward Media is also now defunct. Earlier this week, I had pestered the team at Brijit for failing to post an abstract I had written back in April. Even with all that was going on, I appreciate that Jeremy took the time to personally e-mail me to say it was under review and then posted it shortly after. Little did I know all the other issues he had to worry about. I appreciate his professionalism to the end. I wish Brosowsky and his Brijit team all the best in hopefully resurrecting this concept should funding come through. The team and community of writers have built a terrific portfolio and I hope monetizing or adapting this application is within reach.

Brijit Writers:
The website reassures payment in full for all abstracts published through May 15 will be made next week.

What Happens to All That Content
As someone that has written a number of abstracts wtih Brijit.com I immediately thought, darn, I don't think I took the time to copy or archive any of the abstracts I wrote that I'm pretty proud of to date. Good news, you can still access Brijit and the nearly 16,000 abstracts, click here.

Updates from Brijit.com
For more on what's happening with Brijit, visit their blog at brijit.wordpress.com

Contact Brijit.com
To contact, e-mail info@brijit.com

How Does It Work? Get Paid to Read & Write. You scroll the Brijit.com website and choose from around a hundred articles to summarize from magazines like Oprah, Premiere, the Economist and newspapers like the Washington Post, Newsweek. Other media sources include radio shows on NPR and television programs such as Charlie Rose and 60 minutes. You have a deadline to provide a tightly worded summary with an opinion on whether someone should bother reading the piece or not. Up to 3 people submit an abstract. Editors choose the best one and that's the one that gets paid and published."

$5 an article
$8 for a summary of a radio or television broadcast

Payments are made during the first week of the month for anything published the previous month. Get paid by PayPal or by physical check to a snail-mail address but checks will often take a bit longer to process and to get to you.