July 2010
How to Measure the Value of Editors →
barthel:
Because editors are often seen as unnecessary, we at IBM conducted a study to demonstrate their value for some of our marketing pages. We took a sample of unedited pages with high traffic from across our various business units and ran them through Dave Harlan, the editing lead for the group that creates a lot of our marketing content. We then ran an A/B test, where we served the...
“do you know what there needs to be more of by the way? hip-hop/r&b karaoke.”
– isabelthespy
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natepatrin:
(And people should read some of the contributing writers’ work via other sites or mediums — Douglas Wolk’s 33 1/3 on Live at the Apollo; Tom Ewing on Freaky Trigger — and keep it in mind when they stumble across — or write — yet another blog post about how Pitchfork writers don’t know shit.)
Nate’s discussion of Pitchfork and the way people use its name as...
“Great care goes into the production of a constantly changing array of pies,...”
– Pies ‘n’ Thighs, in Brooklyn, review: The New Yorker
“Kelefa Sanneh: winning at life.” —barthel
“my mother just informed me that she read the great gatsby because robert redford...”
– isabelthespy
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Hey Nick S, if you liked Ed Banger’s take, you’re gonna love to see who’s in the market for your favorite riff now.
“The ‘bad film’ cult became highly visible with the publication of...”
– Eric Schaefer, “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!”: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959
