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Sarah if you interview Max in future please try to find out what happened to his book, "The Blueprint: Reviving Innovation, Rediscovering Risk, and Rescuing the Free Market", that he was coauthoring with Kasparov and Thiel. It was meant to be published a while ago and seems to have disappeared.
The reason why the the iPhone 5's switch from 30-pin to Lightning connection was criticised was because it was so blatantly anti-consumer, as discussed in the Slate article that you link to. I don't think it It had anything to do with it being a "small change" as you seem to be implying.
Let me be the first Aussie commenter to say welcome to Sydney (even if you are a Kiwi).
P.S. I know you weren't looking for an answer, but I think Waltzing Matilda's popularity here is explained by its longevity and association with our country's rural and criminal past. Plus our actual anthem is shit. :)
@paulcarr @g_c @njyx is correct - I was making a bad pun based on how you wrote the amount of funding (i.e. $640K vs. $640,000). Not particularly funny, I know, but I couldn't resist. I also don't think Gates actually said it FWIW.
That aside, I do have some knowledge of media businesses (having run one before) and I agree with both @elicolner and @paulcarr - $640,000 is not much money for a newsroom...
$640K ought to be enough for anybody...
Love this article. I am still laughing at your "margin of error of plus/minus three Squares"line.
Paul, did it look like this when you held the first copy of NSFWCORP Print to come off the presses: http://www.articlesweb.org/blog/wp-content/gallery/sun-newspaper-archives_1/sun-newspaper-archives-4.jpg
"Apple will shoot 10 for 10 I predict. Its worst-selling products are still magical — Apple is that good!"
Sure. So none of these ever happened: Apple Maps, Ping, MobileMe, AntennaGate, Pippin, Lisa, Apple III, Newton, Hockey Puck Mouse, G4 Cube, etc.
The reality distortion field still seems to be working just fine, based on this "analysis".
Methinks Pando Daily needs to fix its own design problems before commenting on the design issues of others...
This just made my Christmas! Great edit. :)
Sorry Paul, Sarah won that debate pretty easily IMHO. Let me start the reader vote count: SL 1, PC 0.
(Although I am surprised to hear that Sarah doesn't think the redesign alienated readers - do the numbers actually back that up?)
@sarahcuda @g_c Sarah, good to see you are very active in the comments for this post. Like a few others here, I am a daily reader of PD. I previously complained about the site design (mostly to do with the load time) but hung in there because I knew a change was coming. I have been hoping you would do a redesign for a while now, but this feels like you are swapping one usability problem (speed) for another (accessing content).
I agree with you that you are different to The Verge - that was just my first impression on the layout. I share the confusion you feel with their layout - PD's update feels even more confusing though, hence my comment.
Having read a lot of the comments here, I don't think most of the feedback is about this being new and people being resistant to change and your design team shouldn't just dismiss it as such. I think this is a step back in terms of being able to access the content quickly and easily. Your stated point of difference in the quest to become SV's "site of record" (a tag line which I think you need to get rid of - it is way to early to be claiming something like that, even though I admire the aim) is that you produce proper journalism, longform content, etc. To me, this redesign runs contrary to that.
It sounds like some of the big gripes are being looked at and tweaks are on the way, which is good. Maybe do what Gawker did and offer a way to switch to a blog view? For daily visitors, that is a far quicker way to scan through the new content than having to work out various sliders, boxes, etc.
I am personally not a fan of the ticker and don't use it much. Given I read a lot of sites, an aggregator has less value to me but that probably makes me an outlier and I assume others may think it is more useful. I found the "crossing of the streams" a little confusing at first, but that will change as existing readers get used to it and new readers come on board who never experienced the old version. Given how important it seems to be to the site, why not give it its own page as well (like I think you used to have) and have a link to it in the top nav bar?
And, last but not least, there seems to be an issue with clicking the main story on the front page for me (it doesn't click through to the article even though my mouse pointer changes to the hand, indicating there is a link there). However, that may have more to do with how I have set up Firefox (locked down with noscript, adblock and a few other privacy and cookie restricting addons) than the site itself.
I was definitely not a fan of the old design, especially how slow it was. That said, I like this version even less. For all its faults, this site does have some pretty good content. In my opinion, the new homepage gets in the way of making it easy to discover that content (which, from what you are saying in this post, is clearly not the intention). It feels like a less-functional/usable knockoff of The Verge's design. (Viewing this on a 14" laptop with Firefox, if that makes a difference)
With all that said, Sarah I appreciate the hard work you are putting into PD and look forward to seeing how the site improves over time.
@Max Woolf Max, I am sure you are already aware of this, but for those who aren't - the Meebo toolbar is pretty easy to block with the NoScript addon for Firefox. I am sure there are equivalent addons for Chrome or Firefox too.
"Risk I/O raises $5.25M to tell the predict around enterprise security breaches"
Does that heading actually mean anything?
Another great interview. Sarah, I think you should seriously consider a pivot (to use a completely overused term) - forget the blog and just focus on these events.
If this story was in a slideshow format, PandoDaily would be just like Paul Carr's favourite news organisation, Business Insider...
Posted by PandoDaily Staff.
Too embarrassed to post this rubbish under a proper byline perhaps?
@mcarney @g_c Thanks for the response. I think that venues are different to users in this context - i.e. 30 more venues = more tickets available to sell = more users.
The 400% figure is in reference to user growth in the article and there is no context for what the baseline is. Maybe I am just being too cynical, but I think that startups have a strong incentive to bullshit with these numbers.
Pando (and other blogs) should be less accepting of these sorts of claims. Get the startup to prove that their numbers aren't just PR bullshit. It probably won't happen, I know, but it is nice to dream...
Can PandoDaily please provide some actual numbers for context when talking about startup metrics. 400% user growth is meaningless if they are starting from a very small number.
When writing about metrics, please also explain how you obtained the numbers. Trusting numbers supplied by a startup without your having independently verified them means the stats are even less credible.
Most blogs don't bother with either of those approaches, but I hope that Pando can set the standard here...
They couldn't even pick an original name for their satirical "magazine" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_%28magazine%29