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rewrew | 8 years ago | on: Medium rolls out a payment model for writers based on engagement

There's no reason to have the "claps" -- they could easily measure engagement without the readers having to actively do anything (visits to page/time on site, etc.). This reeks of a gimmick/someone trying to do something for their MBA thesis, vs. actually trying to get authors fairly paid.

rewrew | 8 years ago | on: Ad blocking is under attack

There's no way that affiliate links can pay the bills for publishers; numbers don't ad up (otherwise everyone would do it, and no one does -- well, actually, there's extremely limited situations where it works in some consumer corners, but those situations are limited and the total amount of revenue is also very limited). And how much extra traffic are you really going to refer? Ads are sold on the thousand -- $X per thousand (consumer can be cents up to maybe $8, B2B much higher). So even if you referred 200 people that's not even worth any effort. Unfortunately, if you're not going buy a subscription, register for a paper or click on an ad, you're probably not worth anything to the site anyhow.

rewrew | 8 years ago | on: Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

And you may be absolutely right -- I'm going off what I've heard from young people anecdotally out of college who say they weren't given a second look because they weren't from MIT or Cal Tech. But perhaps that's only for entry-level positions, or perhaps my information is just plain wrong.

rewrew | 8 years ago | on: Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

Let's break down the reality of this situation as it currently stands:

1) You can't say what you want at work, period (there are no first amendment protections at work, just from the government). The person who posted the memo was naive and this memo from the CEO is corporate bullspeak to look good for outside PR. That's all this is, and if you take it for anything more you're also naive. For all intents and purposes it means nothing.

2) The company might be trying to make women feel more welcome by having the statement from the new diversity officer and the CEO, but I can tell you as a woman the LAST place I'd want to get a job right now is Google -- everyone is going to look at you like you only got your job because you're female; it's going to be extremely hard to get people to take you seriously. That's why, if you're going to hire only for diversity (not that I recommend it), do it in silence, don't tell the world, as it only backfires against those same employees you're bringing in.

3) If Google really wanted to get more females and minorities in its rank it should be looking at why it focuses so highly on only top rank schools (IF TRUE: MAY NOT BE-- SEE DISCUSSION BELOW) -- there's plenty of great, smart people constantly overlooked by Google because they can't see past their own biases in this area, which some would argue is a bigger barrier to diversity at Google than straight hiring by gender and race alone.

rewrew | 8 years ago | on: I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program

I'm sorry but I call bullsh*t on a lot of aspects on this story. I think this may have been true 5-10 years ago, but not now, not the way the Web works now. Everyone ignores those cross-link e-mails. Getting the amount of articles he says is NOT enough; you need more. You just don't get high-quality content for .05 cents a word. And that's just for starters. I know, why would this person lie? But really, for those of us who do the Web day in, day out, there's a lot that just does not ring true in this post.

rewrew | 8 years ago | on: EFF's Letter to Zillow on Behalf of McMansion Hell [pdf]

So much in here is interesting (and right), but the best part I think comes at the end: Zillow doesn't own the images. So whether or not you there's a legal argument for fair use, Zillow has absolutely no right to file a copyright case in the first place because they don't own the images. As the EFF rightly points out, there is no "super copyright" that Zillow can exercise here. Really good stuff overall on fair use, but love that nice whopper at the end.

rewrew | 8 years ago | on: Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns

She was a bad CEO by the measure of ALL CEOS, not just Yahoo:

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/top-10-management-mistake...

https://qz.com/314225/everything-we-learned-from-marissa-may...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2015/11/20/marissa-ma...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262704/why-wont-anyone-tal...

http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-happened-to-all-of-marissa-may...

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13332877/1/yahoo-ceo-mayer-i...

http://variety.com/2016/digital/features/marissa-mayer-yahoo...

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2015/12/30/worst-ceos-20...

http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/the-worst-ceos-in-corporate-...

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272469

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-wh...

Do you want more?

rewrew | 8 years ago | on: Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns

Thank you for laying it out so well. I am a female executive and I am so sick of everyone saying that she's only getting criticized because she's female. So what, we can't get criticized if we do a horrible job? If we treat our employees unfairly? If we don't do what's best for our companies? She was a bad CEO and she deserved to be fired long ago.
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