Interesting Links for 13-05-2012
May. 13th, 2012 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Advertising People Are Not Normal
- When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed
- Is it time to stop writing headlines that end in question marks?
- Why we're in danger of losing many good teachers
- 2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today
- I JUST LEARNED A LOT ABOUT BEES!
- Fractal pancakes
- The thing that people blame Joss Whedon for in the Avengers wasn't his fault
- Civil marriages outnumber religious in England&Wales; 2-1. Remarriages too. Religion owns marriage?
- Top 16 Most Expensive Materials in the World
- Dell invites horrifically misogynist speaker to tell their female employees to shut up
- German police used less bullets in one year than the USA used against one unarmed man.
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Date: 2012-05-15 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-13 12:37 pm (UTC)that floating 'repost' bar on the left side is the most irritating thing I have ever seen on a website.
As such I refuse to read the content
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Date: 2012-05-13 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-13 12:58 pm (UTC)It's sort of chicken and the egg.
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Date: 2012-05-13 02:12 pm (UTC)My guess is that it's never one or the other, the actions reenforce the tendency.
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Date: 2012-05-13 01:19 pm (UTC)If click through rates are part of your income stream/business model you are just doing good business by writing question headlines. When people see a question it makes them naturally want to click through to find the answer.
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