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Oh, come on. There's such an obvious difference of situations here it's not even worth going into.
Agreed, it was obviously satire.
I considered clicking just to see if it was a rickroll.
How 'One Weird Trick' Conquered The Internet
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#92If you have to watch the video for 15-30 minutes, I think it's not the persuasion aspect but probably loading different sites in an iframe to defraud advertisers: http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2011/03/uncovering-adv...
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Eventually they do one better, and actually produce content cheaply - aka Demand Media. Flogs and farticle sites are so 2006 though. Now they use markov chain based generators to generate sites based on content scraped off other sites.
More info on this? Hadn't heard of this being done other than through content spinners
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Interesting! I tried mint with black tea and wasn't a fan. To me, they were two great tastes that did not go great together. But I love mint with green tea or yerba mate. I'm surprised it mixes with coffee.
One interesting thing I found was mint and coca tea. It's readily available in grocery stores in Peru, and it's an incredible cure for a hangover.
Is it the mint or the cocaine that cures the hangover? :)
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#95Another "weird trick" sites use is to include numbers in headlines. The sidebar of this very Slate article lists headlines for "7 of John Adams' greatest insults" and "'A Different World': 12 Things We Learned" . There must some psychological lure that makes readers think "oh, that is such a specific number that it must be a very important and definitive list!" :\
Note that it's not numbers per-se, it is a list of things (with the length of the list identified, and often a 'top' list.) This is a well known method to drive hits in blogging.
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#96Another "weird trick" sites use is to include numbers in headlines. The sidebar of this very Slate article lists headlines for "7 of John Adams' greatest insults" and "'A Different World': 12 Things We Learned" . There must some psychological lure that makes readers think "oh, that is such a specific number that it must be a very important and definitive list!" :\
People consume bullet points easily. Headlines that promise a quick, content dense read frequently perform well.
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#97The article doesn't seem to mention this, but there is another trick in these guys arsenals - fake news articles about their products. They build entire webpages, along with side-stories and article comments that support their product. They look SO real that once I (and I consider myself pretty tech-savvy, having access to Internet for 15 years) fell for it briefly, and then had to explain it to my wife who stumbled…
Indeed they do. I recently looked into a similar scam, although the starting point was a hacked email account that sent out links to everyone in the address book to a hacked wordpress install. It was interesting following the rabbit hole. Here is a quick write-up I did on that instance: This is what the original wordpress instance looked like (just the frontpage, which did not carry malicious content): http://i.imgur…
> http://i.imgur.com/RHMxj7T.jpg
This is exactly what I had in mind. A web page stylized as a news website with an article that subtly points to some diet pills. If one didn't read the URL he could really fell for that.
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Advertising wasn't always the norm, and I would personally love to return to the days where people published because they actually had something to say. How many search results these days are from those extremely valuable sites with one person geeking out on everything they know about a topic, versus the sheer number of content farms regurgitating the same simplistic crap just to get page views and ultimately waste y…
Advertising pays for a lot of very legitimate content-focused blogs/news organizations as well. People can't afford to pay for every single blog or bit of news they read and authors can't do anything substantial or meaningful without making it a job(and needing money to do it).
> authors can't do anything substantial or meaningful without making it a job(and needing money to do it).
Citation needed, please.
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#99I stumbled into some weird data as to how startups may be able to use this kind of technique without exploiting people. Yeah, it sounds hard to believe. But you have to understand that every technique out there can be used for good. Anyhow, turns out that there are some tricks that these type of advertisers use to increase their response. One just needs to carefully read the source of their pages (specially the Javas…
I grew up in Utah. Living there taught me at least one thing that helps me deal with certain types of more fanatical or difficult people I meet and deal with on a near daily basis:
Everyone wants to be part of a secret society or have some esoteric knowledge that
makes them feel set-apart from the norm.
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#100Another "weird trick" sites use is to include numbers in headlines. The sidebar of this very Slate article lists headlines for "7 of John Adams' greatest insults" and "'A Different World': 12 Things We Learned" . There must some psychological lure that makes readers think "oh, that is such a specific number that it must be a very important and definitive list!" :\
Yes, the well-worn "list of n things": http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html