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EJHill is...well, you know.
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John Podhoretz
Jonah Goldberg
Rob Long
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Okay... Jonah! Maybe Jonah would be awesome in the comments. ;-)
/JPod in that thread makes it hilarious!
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The "clicking a second page and there's no content" thing-- sorry, but the problem isn't a lack of "inside information," it's seeing costs you don't seem to recognize.....
While the value per person is very low, it's high enough for the pages to spend the extra bandwidth used by opening a page's framework twice; having the second page (third, fourth, fifth....) for a single story is additional advertising, and that "second page" is an implicit promise to the consumer that they will be actual content.
How strong of a promise? I've heard of several folks who no longer visit websites precisely because they had a habit of breaking an article into several needless pages.
The value of the individual reader is low; the value of the article to the reader, though, is also very low. Annoy folks and they'll leave. Mildly annoy them, and they just won't "share" the page-- meaning you lose other possible viewers.
Businesses switched to offering "free" product for the cost of downloading the advertising because that was the price people would pay. They can't all be Ricochet....
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Alright... I'm mid-listen, but jPod just made me laugh out loud with his audible pick. Fresh off of talking about hollywood egos ("this is the best mother-daughter movie ..."), jPod proceeds to discuss the "best work of history" that he's read (in a long time?): a book that places New York City at the center of American History. As a westerner (who has visited New York), I absolutely love that irony.
[Edit: oh, damn. Rob, you nailed it with "you're a new yorker." Spot on. It is precisely why your "getting away from hollywood" time should actually involve a stint in some real American state like Montana or Wyoming. Going from one coast to the other is just loon to loony.]
[Edit 2: I would LOVE to have JPod to listen to Flyover Country and respond. Terry actually does work in the oil field. Just saying.]
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For Jonah:
In the battle between the ersatzjew and the fakewasp I give the nod to Rob. And that page view thing annoys me too, John.
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