Stuff from 18 December, 2009
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 18 December, 2009.
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 18 December, 2009.
nickd on gratitude during the Christmas season:
if you have a lover, here is the most important thing that you can do. you should go over to that lover and tell them that you are grateful for their existence, and their love. because one very, very sacred thing that exists in this rather bleak-at-best world is knowing that someone out there gives such a passionate damn about you, your health, your success, and your well-being, and is willing to take you seriously and meet you halfway in their life.
Great post… If only for the reason it brought to my attention that NickD is posting again!
Merry Christmas Alex, Mykala, and the rest of Tumbledry Nation!
He is indeed writing, a book in fact.
Everyone here at tumbledry returns your holiday wishes, with the full warmth of the season. I hope life in Woodbury is better than ever.
Psh! Why wait for that? I know what we should do on New Years/Tuesdays!
Cookies for everyone! Wait — what about Sundays? What about this Sunday (not for cookies, but brunch)?
So, here’s how you do it: you analyze what people are searching for online (e.g. “what’s the best lure for muskie fishing?”). Then you analyze how crowded the ad space is for that search by examining how many companies are paying for the ads to appear for the combination of these words: muskie+fishing+lure. You repeat this process many times and select the searches that are likely to be most profitable over a long period of time.
Then you contract cheap laborers to make that content.
You put it on the internet at the rate of 4000 articles and videos per day.
You generate an inordinate quantity of soulless “content” produced by people with no interest in the topic.
You pollute the internet (and make a lot of money).
The full story, profiling Demand Media, is very interesting.