like after the site was successfully cobbled together and hit it big what did tumblr do other than not fuck up the formula?
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
there's way more porn now
― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
what did tumblr do other than not fuck up the formula?
I presume what they did was scale it up enormously, which doesn't look like much from the user's side of things, but takes a lot of management skill. Also, not fucking up the formula requires an understanding of what it was about the formula that works and what would fuck it up; the urge to fuck up the formula is not easy to resist, because it always presents itself in the guise of becoming more awesome, or more sellable, or more (insert desirable trait).
― Aimless, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
clearly idg how anything in this business works. how does tumblr make money, even theoretically, in the future? what is yahoo paying for?
― goole, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
i don't get what blogger does for google either, except work as another ad platform. is that it for yahooblr?
― goole, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
only yahoo knows what yahoo was thinking - maybe eyeballs and harvestable data?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
so off topic
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
oh ha whoops, i was just clicking thru bookmarks and didn't see what actual thread this was
― goole, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
Aimless is right--Tumblr refined the blog in quite a few ways but yes scaling (and keeping performance metrics) were high on the list of accomplishments. Mainly I would suspect the management skill was managing engineers and sys arch people. 175 employees is no easy task, not to mention 100million visitors. Tumblr found the sweet spot and kept adding users (until last November, when they started to lose them).
― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
http://adage.com/article/creativity-pick-of-the-day/give-jobless-millennial-edge-a-free-yearly-businessweek/241634/
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
millennials. what a cracked up bunch.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
Read "While giving millennials grief is highly entertaining" as "While millennials grief is highly entertaining" and almost lost my shit.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
both thru imho
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
sorry iatee, didn't want this to be about tumblr
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
it's okay, it's relevant that the average net worth of millenials went up this week
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18n60kp6w6189png/k-bigpic.png
― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
go MN
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
end the ncaa
― goole, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
wow. is that for real?
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
so that's why deans become deans
― j., Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
because they couldn't make coach?
― sword of (seandalai), Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
super real
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
"Nor should any President deploy armed #drones over U.S. soil"
woops wrong thread
no I think this is the right thread
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
the war on millennials begins
― Mordy , Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
feel like new jersey and rhode island are getting particularly ripped off there
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
also maine
― iatee, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
I'd be interestd in the salary amounts for those top posts.
― nickn, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
well, here are the coaches:http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/salaries/
and executive compensation:http://chronicle.com/article/Executive-Compensation-at/139093/#id=table
Both pages have tabs for different categories.
I haven't found a listing of deans.
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
amazing that the vanderbilt a.d. makes $3.2m
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Amazing that the Fresno State coach makes $650,000. It's fucking Fresno!
― nickn, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
the entire fresno economy is based on him spending his salary
― iatee, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Fresno State is a pretty big program fwiw, despite Fresno's shitholeness.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
coach from middle tennessee state makes just as much and I've never even heard of that school
― iatee, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
located in beautiful murfreesboro tennessee
― iatee, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
i'm told that the vanderbilt ad is also the vice chancellor, so i guess that makes a little more sense
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
point of the map is that we should all aspire to be coaches on the college level.
where is the fucking reality show for that?
― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
lol Nevada
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 24 May 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10076606/Wage-premium-of-a-degree-falls-by-a-third-under-university-boom.html
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 24 May 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
my SIL's partner has oboe students there
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Friday, 24 May 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
*wink wink*
― goole, Friday, 24 May 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
ilx search informs me that murfreesboro is racist also forks is from there
― iatee, Friday, 24 May 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
gasp
― Nhex, Friday, 24 May 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
http://m.washingtonpost.com/local/education/masters-degree-programs-surge-at-nations-colleges-and-universities/2013/05/25/938462fa-b726-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html
― iatee, Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
check out the comments section
― 乒乓, Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
check out my melody
― markers, Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
markers have you thought about going for a master's
― 乒乓, Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
when we meet irl, ask me again
― markers, Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
the short answer is yes