Tag: promotion

Graphs that explain the internet…. Buzzfeed

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Todd Schneider tracks the Reddit front-page, the stories that reach it, and the stories in pages two, three, four, and beyond. Unsurprisinly (to me) the Reddit front page is far from ‘automatic’ but has a decent level of editorial control, as can be seen from the step-change in the graph showing the position of the Top 100 posts hour by hour. That got me wondering: if a post is on reddit’s second (or third, or fourth) page, what are the chances that it’ll make it to the first page? reddit shows 25 posts per page by default, and at some point I saw my

Don’t fire the man who outsourced his job, promote him!

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If you have an employee who has shown that the job he does can be done for a sixth of the cost, do you (a) fire him for hiring a Chinese company to his job so he can watch cat videos and surf on Reddit, or (b) promote him to ‘Head of Outsourcing’, make him fire all his friends, and then hire even more Chinese programmers to do the same work at a lower rate?

Smart thinking from Belladonna on the piracy of their third album

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Belladaonna‘s Dani Macchi, via Facebook, on scoring 20,000 downloads of their new album,” And There Was Light…” Wow, almost 20.000 downloads in a week! Yes it’s an illegal download website, so we won’t see a penny out of all these downloads… but it’s hard for us to give a damn about that, we are too busy celebrating the fact that so many people chose to add our beloved latest album in their collection! Pop quiz, is Macchi right? I think the honest answer is yes. If someone had approached the band and said they could get their music into the