Archive for June 15th, 2009

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Hulu is run by commies

June 15, 2009

Makes sense. After all most firms today rely on legislation and monopoly status to give us what they want, not what we want:

We see all sorts of confused analysis when it comes to how “free” works in economics — which goes back to our assertion that the human brain tends to run into a mental block when it encounters a zero and rather than recognize the rest of the economic equation, it just pops out an error message. That’s the only explanation I can find for the so-called analysis by Media Metrics’ Laura Martin of how Hulu is “anti-consumer, anti-media employees, and even anti-America” and supposedly putting $300 billion worth of market value “at risk” (thanks Ben for sending this in).

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How your site can suck like TechCrunch

June 15, 2009

DF (Via Oliver Willis):

3. Have your founder/editor always play the victim, and do so dramatically in public.
ie “I’ve suffered so much in publishing this site, that I’m going to retire to my remote mountain lair to count the money I make from it. Tear.”

Let’s not forget: Boost traffic by starting a rumor that involves a company in the news and a merger of some sort. For example, reliable sources (i.e. Michael Arrington’s ass) tells him that Twitter is being bought by Apple/Google/Yahoo.

It’s called “process journalism”.