Looking for Writers/Photographers for Madrid City Guide!

Are you a great writer? Know Madrid like the back of your hand?

We're launching a Madrid city guide on the iPhone and other mobile devices, and we need your help! We're looking for street-savvy guys and gals to give us the inside scoop on Madrid's best gems. The pay is just $5 per entry, but it's a fun job - you just bring your camera along as you go to all your favorite places, take pics, grab a card, and then upload all the info with a short review to our online admin panel. Nice and easy.

Here's the posting we put up on craigslist. If you're interested, get in touch!

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We are looking for people with discernment, common sense and above all? attitude? to help us populate our new Madrid Brink Guide by becoming Brink Guide Editors. (www.brinkguide.com)

The job is not complex? we give you a URL where you log-in to upload short reviews of venues or activities with a pic in a user-friendly web form. We pay $5 per item uploaded. Some of our freelancers report being able to upload more than 30 entries a day.

We need original photos and a few original words (but not many - the reviews can be very simple - certainly not more than 75 words at the very most. "Best burger the South side of Market Street." would be a perfectly fine entry. - As long as it really is the best burger from that area. Equally good would be, "Howie tells us his burger is the best 1/3 pounder in town. We concur. Try the salty relish."

We do want special attention to the small shops clinging for life - like the barber shop that's been there 78 years, or the shell shop or thrift shop or tattoo shop that is somehow less commercial than the rest. We are also interested in the best clubs, mechanics, biking routes. We want to be a resource for anyone new to town.

What we don't need to be is exhaustive and complete. We want to feature the 30 best bars, the 15 best hotels, not every bar and every hotel. We'll let Frommer's stake out that territory.

Above all we want the Brink Guide to celebrate the margin, to reveal venues and activities that exist just under the surface of things. We want the local perspective of experienced space and time travelers? the judgment of gifted amateurs, rather than the jaded opinions of seasoned professionals. We are not at all interested in the starbuckization of cities, rather we want to see the small, unique businesses and the commerce they produce.

If this interests you please send 3 Madrid samples to brinkguidemadrid@gmail.com. We need:

1) Name of the Venue or Activity
2) Description
3) Address
4) Phone
5) Email and Web site (if they exist)
6) Photo 500 pixels wide no bigger than 500k.

If we like your samples, we'll pay you for them and hire you to write more.