Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.
From Nick Denton
I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.
While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.
Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.
An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.
As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
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