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The shadows on his face, the fact it was captured at the end of him throwing his helmet, the way his head is pointed down. Holy crap.
Thank you, Halls, those platitudes almost make me forget I feel bad enough to be chewing on Zinc and Vitamin C lozenges. (Taken with instagram)
“Have you actually tried to set up a Facebook page for a company lately? It’s gotten so comically, hella complex.” —
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Wow. If we’re at the point in our society where setting up a Facebook page for a business, which requires nothing more than FOLLOWING PROMPTS and exploring analytics is considered “comically, hella complex” than I, for one, can’t wait for our downfall.
ETA: Actually, some of his points are decent, but as someone who regularly has to teach people how to set up a Facebook page, it is in no way complex. The hard part is actually figuring out how to engage with people…
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These are an excellent reminder of what we lost when we lost DFW.
It was 41 degrees earlier. Midwestern winters, how do they work? (Taken with instagram)
Hey, I made something. (Taken with instagram)
That photo was of moleskine pocket notebooks that 1) are laying around my house and 2) are mostly or entirely empty. So that doesn’t include the four or five at my office, nor the hardcover ones.
I told Emily that the next time I try to buy notebooks she needs to slap my nose with a rolled up newspaper and say, “Bad Jamie! Baaaaad!”
This has been bugging me, so like all reasonable adults, I made a philosoraptor meme about it.
How Forbes Stole A New York Times Article And Got All The Traffic -
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how much is a title worth? If the story that proceeds is any indicator, a title is worth over 6700 words and months of research. It all began Friday when the New York Times published an article “How Companies Learn Your Secrets“. It was an extremely long article which discussed how large companies like WalMart and Target collect data about your individual consumption patters to figure out how to most efficiently make you happy. It was a great piece but there was one problem: it didn’t have the title it deserved.
The original title was “How Companies Learn Your Secrets”. Kashmir Hill, a writer at Forbes, realized this and quickly developed a condensed version of the article with a far more powerful title: “How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did“. It cut out the crap and got to the real shocker of the story. As of the writing of this story, the New York Times article has 60 likes and shares on Facebook versus 12,902 which the Forbes article has. The Forbes article also has a mind boggling 680,000 page views, a number that can literally make a writer’s career.
Forbes did some journalism this weekend.
First, we need to cut those page views in half, since the article, like all Forbes articles, is spread out over two pages and with no single page option.
Then we need to murder anyone who would allow copying an article (I’m not accusing her of plagiarism, but the linkbait title and bare-bones recounting of a longer article is bullshit) to count as a positive for anyone.
I think I have a Moleskine problem. (Taken with instagram)