"We are helping people figure out the skills they need for a new role, connecting them to disparate content via our partnerships and then in the backend integrating with those content providers to track your informal learning in one place so you can use it to apply for jobs."
Hmm, I think that means...
"We are helping people train for a new role..."
"We are helping people train for a new role with high-quality tutorials..."
"We are helping people train for a new role with high-quality tutorials and tracking their learning so they can use it to apply for jobs."
Ohhhhh, in other words... You help people train for a new job and give them something to put on their resume? Awesome! Why didn't you just say so? =)
I suppose people are more likely to say, "Oh.. oh. Hmm. Sounds impressive," if you say it the other way, though.
If they are very successful and generate a lot of buzz, it may actually work in your favor to be the next alternative in line. If there's a lot of hype, their company can only be purchased once, but many may want to.
Of course, it's better to be #1 yourself, if you can manage that. But I don't know how much I would worry about competition.
Was going to say that this is clearly a bug in the minifier but then I thought about the effort involved in properly supporting non-terminated lines (or even detecting it). You're going to end up writing a JS parser.
This really shows the cost of this syntactic nicety to the language.
I started using Dvorak out of curiosity more than anything. I've been using it for close to 4 years now, and I haven't noticed any speed gains.
It's inconvenient to use other peoples' computers; although, this is offset a bit by the amusement value of watching others try to use my machine.
The claims about ergonomics may be valid. My hands move a lot less when using Dvorak, but I can't speak as to whether the chances of RSI are reduced in any way by this, or if it provides any kind of relief.
Programming-wise, I haven't had any problems. The biggest concern there is that you might not be able to type for the first week or two.
Unless you have some significant reason to do so, I don't think I would recommend switching myself. I didn't see any significant gains, but your mileage may vary.
If I find a blog that seems interesting, the first thing I do is look for a feed. If there isn't one or it's just partial, I go somewhere else and I don't look back.
In today's information-overloaded web, the line between being worth my time and being a waste of my time is thinner than you might think.
I totally see this... however I realized as I looked at my RSS feeds, google reader sucks in the whole article, if I really was curious about comments I might go, this is rare. I mean granted you get the second look, now that you subscribed those chances increase. But again, maybe I am totally clueless, but if the reader sucks in the whole article why go to the site. As you said in is world with information overload, why waste my time when I can aggregate all my interests and not go to the site. Here lies my problem, once google puts adsense on their reader , is the blogger getting the cut. Google news shows a snippet of the article, I totally see a synergistic relationship with traffic there, having trouble seeing this for RSS. In this case if google decides to monetize they are really getting away with robbery.
You're right. I do occasionally visit the site, but I normally don't, because it's all in my reader.
Even so, you get these benefits:
> An expanded audience.
As a blogger, I think this is your most important asset. Vastly more important than any money you might get from it. An audience is actual power, and besides: It's not who you know--it's who knows you.
> Word of mouth, because of the first point.
Even if this portion of your audience isn't looking at your ads, if they like what you have to say, some of them are bound to tell other people. These are extra referrals you would not have had otherwise.
This is important because growth by word of mouth is naturally compounded. Over a few years, I bet the difference really builds up.
Now, I don't have any numbers to back this up, but my gut says this stuff will end up earning you more AdSense dollars in the long run than trying to maneuver your audience into captivity.
Would you consider Slashdot to have "multi-dimensional" voting, given their Interesting, Insightful, Informative, Funny, and (of course) Troll ratings?
I haven't looked much at Slashdot lately, but they have certainly put a lot of work into designing a good system for moderating comments. You are right that they have some dimensionality, and a way to "fade" trolls by adjusting your settings so you only see highly rated comments.
Still, for me at least, I don't find their dimensionality very helpful. "funny" and "informative" are rather broad categories. If all the content on Slashdot could be simultaneously ranked on a scale of "value to startup entrepeneurs looking for seed funding" and "online video content"...that would be useful to me!
I don't have any particular ideas about what should be done, but limiting your choices to "up" and "down" seems so narrow. Maybe I should jsut be happy it works as well as it does!
I was interested in this topic, namely, conversation theory or something with that sort of name, and read a little on it. Standard textbook stuff you can find in intro level linguistics or sociolinguistics.
Slashdot's model follows some theories surprisingly well. The designers really put thought into it.
Hmm, I think that means...
"We are helping people train for a new role..."
"We are helping people train for a new role with high-quality tutorials..."
"We are helping people train for a new role with high-quality tutorials and tracking their learning so they can use it to apply for jobs."
Ohhhhh, in other words... You help people train for a new job and give them something to put on their resume? Awesome! Why didn't you just say so? =)
I suppose people are more likely to say, "Oh.. oh. Hmm. Sounds impressive," if you say it the other way, though.