Q: What do BofA and Gawker Media have in common?
A: More with every day that passes.
A: More with every day that passes.
@Wenceslaus: Was it ever possible? I have yet to hear of anyone who was able to do so.
They have more bug reports than a cheap hotel. Tech support is completely overwhelmed; it's taking them almost a week to respond with boilerplate "We really care about you" replies. A friend of mine is in the fourth week of trying to get an ongoing problem with her account resolved and has pretty much given up on the site; she checks in once or twice a week out of curiosity, but that's all. Multiply this by a few thousand and you begin to see the scale of the problem.
Gawker stopped feeding numbers to Sitemeter sometime Friday according to a tweet from Nick Denton Divi Filius. The numbers from Quantcast aren't exactly encouraging, but all Gawker needs is to catch a Congressman messing around on his wife every few days, and for Gizmodo to keep buying more stolen Apple prototypes.
The new URL scheme with the hash+bang breaks Google's crawling mechanism. There's a wonderful discussion of it here: [isolani.co.uk]
That's because under the old system, a post like this might draw a few hundred comments; this one has a few dozen.
It took about three hours for anyone to notice.
It's the only quote from the movie I remember, because it is so freaking true. There are some other good ones, but it's the best, IMHO.
I'd buy that if this were a matter of some hick in the middle of Bumfarkabama; if you grew up in a city large enough to have suburbs, you probably knew someone who is Jewish. If you went to any college that isn't Bob Jones U. or the equivalent, you probably know someone who is Jewish.
There's no excuse for anyone who presumes to call himself or herself educated to not know that the proper term is "synagogue" (or possibly "temple," for a Reform congregation). I will concede that shul falls into the category of advanced Yiddish for goyim.
There's no excuse for anyone who presumes to call himself or herself educated to not know that the proper term is "synagogue" (or possibly "temple," for a Reform congregation). I will concede that shul falls into the category of advanced Yiddish for goyim.
There comes a time when you have to fight fire with fire; this country sided with one mass murderer (Stalin) to fight another one (Schicklgruber). Sometimes in life, there isn't a moral high ground.
Never mind; it seems that GM has turned off Sitemeter for reasons unknown. Oh well, Quantcast makes prettier charts, even though the numbers aren't real-time. Computer, set a new task for 9:05am PT, daily...
Although I agree with you (and I am paraphrasing here) that vigilante justice is no justice at all, people at 4chan (more specifically, the /b/tards) don't need to lift a finger to fuck with Gawker Media; the company's own engineers and executives have done that for them.
Visits to Gawker.com are down 97% compared to last Saturday (2/5: 1,037, 018; today as of 7pm Eastern: 23,200); similar trends exist for Deadspin, Jalopnik and Jezebel. I don't know what cash reserves the company has on hand, but this isn't a hemorrhage, this is exsanguination.
(ETA: Corrected "Page views" to "visits" - the drop in eyeballs is 97% in either metric.)
Visits to Gawker.com are down 97% compared to last Saturday (2/5: 1,037, 018; today as of 7pm Eastern: 23,200); similar trends exist for Deadspin, Jalopnik and Jezebel. I don't know what cash reserves the company has on hand, but this isn't a hemorrhage, this is exsanguination.
(ETA: Corrected "Page views" to "visits" - the drop in eyeballs is 97% in either metric.)
When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses.
Except for the minor detail that none of the people who deserved to die did so.
I demand the return of the #corrections hashtag.
They found out it didn't work when they rolled it out last week on io9 and elsewhere. That (and the overwhelmingly negative user feedback) should have have told them something was amiss. But Denton's a genius and we are just filthy peasants in the commenting ghetto. Fleshbot is the only site that hasn't changed over, and surprisingly or not, it's the only site that's maintaining readership without the benefit of shirtless congressmen (if Sitemeter is at all reliable).
I said this on Monday; the skin is actually not too bad; it's what lies underneath that is absolutely horrid.
I'd love to turn you on...
Your analogy sucks, because the Lisa led directly to the Macintosh. This is more like the Newton, which led only to one thing: Apple damn near going into the pink sheets.
With celebrities, I always take the under.
