Get Your Clix on Route 666

[purejuice]

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[fj]

What also didn't help: pioneering making you annoy your friends.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/facebook-social-readers-are-all-collapsing

Basically, after gaining a ton of new readers by forcing people who click through from Facebook to post on their wall to all their friends that they clicked through to something, users started saying no to that shit.

[purejuice]

that always seemed to me an exceptionally coercive and rape-ish idea. i mean. zuckerberg!

[purejuice]

here's something new. love your take on it.
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/172976/i-hated-every-moment-of-our-experiment-with-apps-publisher-says/

[fj]

Specialized apps are ridiculous for publications, because they lock you into one technology platform. I have started to specialize in those "HTML5 that reconfigures itself depending on which browser on which device you use" sites. It doesn't work too well for transactional websites, but for publications it is ace if they force themselves to be a little rigorous about their story formats and lay-outs.

[microbie]

But Lally Weymouth is still asking important people really inane questions (admittedly less often than in the past). Surely that will save the institution!

[purejuice]

the cruel gossip about lally was that she and not donnie had inherited their father's mental illness. i'm much nicer. i think she's just a jerk.

[microbie]

Wow, I didn't know about the mental illness gossip. I just assumed she was roughly as intelligent as an office chair.

[purejuice]

i don't think she's mentally ill -- that's wingnut slander. office chair is way more like it.

I would have left the "Getting Stuffed" title

[franklanguage]

That picture looks pretty risqué too!

Re: I would have left the "Getting Stuffed" title

[purejuice]

inside-out elves always do it for me.