How To Make It On The Internet, Explained!
This in-house LA Times memo explains how to make it on the Internet. Two big stories blew away some previous benchmarks, it sounds like. One was the story about Obama bowing in Japan! That is because it was in 48pt type on Drudge, and was the biggest traffic day for the paper's Top of the Ticket blog ever, which covers, like Obama and stuff. Fancy that. The other traffic winner was about a bunch of local sports on Saturday. The future of newspapering, according to Tony Pierce, the LAT's blog editor? "So yes you should post on weekends. Yes you should post in the middle of the night."
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Yes, post on weekends. Monday through Friday, 9-5 is some fucking socialist bullshit.
YOU do that.
Hey, fucking hey now. Cave dwellers have feelings, too.
That smacks of evolution!
Oh, I'm just strangling myself with one hand while I heave!
Let's get drunk and spew.
party til you puke.
i'm not leaving til i'm heaving.
sweet, so my former boss isn't the only one who sends effusive motivational crap about "compelling content" to staff.
What does the yy stand for in yylatimesbloggers?
yylatbloggers sorry
That's the email distribution list format there; like, yyshowtracker@ is copy and edit and writing staff for the showtracker blog, etc. There's probably a million different group lists. Hate to be the IT people at the LAT.
GOD. SORRY. ZZZ. Sometimes THE MORE YOU KNOW is really the less you know.
"The more you know" here is that glitzy, glamourous L.A. hits record blog traffic via discussion of fight club bouts at four on a Sunday morning.
Can't you guys just outsource the overnight posting to Bangalore?
I'd do it, but all I have in me are LOLcats and rants about the unholy nature of the metric system.
The metric system is some fucking socialist bullshit.
We can't even convince Choire to send us those lovely emails during work hours…
I can't convince Choire to send me those lovely emails at all. It's been something like two months, hasn't it?
He's been busy hammering out the details of the dog cigarette deal with Nat Sherman.
If the future of newspapering is having USC get upset by some brainy local rival, count me in.
Yes yes a thousand times (the number of pageviews we need to get our ad revenues even slightly in line with the ones we had before Craigslist) yes.