This today is good reporting from Eater. Simple story, big news for their audience in Chicago, and good context built around the announcement.
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link
oh my god the front page on re/code is impossible. I just did a grep for "Mossberg" to find one of his recent pieces and Firefox is like "there's two of those!" but NOWHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Friday, 29 January 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
searching on a page via the browser is such a shitshow these days
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
they should just make every page a PDF, it would save bandwidth
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
sad truths in 2016
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
whaaaat
http://www.wsj.com/articles/vox-hires-choire-sicha-to-oversee-partnerships-with-facebook-snapchat-1455714001
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
so weird
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
We're living in a content bubble. back to the old blogs soon, blogs that didn't make money, blogs only written by people with day jobs. Unfortunately, in the meantime, the incredibly stupid sounding headline structure adopted by data-driven content farms has infested everything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/18/i-yelled-black-lives-matter-at-a-trump-rally-this-is-what-happened-next/
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 March 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/broderick/status/712355010219286528
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
SB Nation now virtually impossible to read on a real computer. "Mobile adaptive" design is now officially "laptop oppressive"
― El Tomboto, Monday, 28 March 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
this fucking newspeak is puke
https://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/179360?gh_jid=179360#.VvlQKRIrKAw
People Analystat Vox Media (View all jobs)DC Office
As the People Analyst, you will be responsible for maintaining the data and functionality of Vox Media’s people systems. Ideal candidates for this position will be passionate about using systems and data to drive people decisions and process across the company. This position will report to the Total Rewards Manager and will be based in Washington, D.C.What you’ll do:• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify the metrics needed to assess the impact of people programs on business outcomes.• Lead all HRIS reporting; prepare and analyze various regular and ad/hoc reports (i.e. people dashboard metrics, headcount reports, EEOC reporting etc.)• Develop internal processes and controls to support an analytics-driven organization.• Recommend streamlined people processes through data automation, and collaborate with People, IT, and other departments to execute.• Maintain the data and functionality of Vox Media’s HRIS, Namely, as well as the ATS, Greenhouse, and other People systems as applicable.• Act as the project lead for any People system upgrades or implementations.• Provide data for all internal and external audit requests related to People data. Collaborate with audit lead and other parties to ensure best practices are created and followed• Audit data within People systems to maintain data integrity and ensures that system controls and processes meet all internal and external requirements.• Serve as a liaison with the IT and Finance teams on People systems and technology matters.• Partner with People Ops, Payroll, Finance to pro-actively drive the development and direction of People system initiatives to improve process efficiency, reporting capabilities and data integrity.• Provide support to employees of Vox Media for People systems-related questions.• Perform ad hoc duties as assigned.
What you’ll do:
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify the metrics needed to assess the impact of people programs on business outcomes.• Lead all HRIS reporting; prepare and analyze various regular and ad/hoc reports (i.e. people dashboard metrics, headcount reports, EEOC reporting etc.)• Develop internal processes and controls to support an analytics-driven organization.• Recommend streamlined people processes through data automation, and collaborate with People, IT, and other departments to execute.• Maintain the data and functionality of Vox Media’s HRIS, Namely, as well as the ATS, Greenhouse, and other People systems as applicable.• Act as the project lead for any People system upgrades or implementations.• Provide data for all internal and external audit requests related to People data. Collaborate with audit lead and other parties to ensure best practices are created and followed• Audit data within People systems to maintain data integrity and ensures that system controls and processes meet all internal and external requirements.• Serve as a liaison with the IT and Finance teams on People systems and technology matters.• Partner with People Ops, Payroll, Finance to pro-actively drive the development and direction of People system initiatives to improve process efficiency, reporting capabilities and data integrity.• Provide support to employees of Vox Media for People systems-related questions.• Perform ad hoc duties as assigned.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 28 March 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
idgi... that's indistinguishable from every corporate HR job posting ever?
― flopson, Monday, 28 March 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
is everybody now doing find+replace "HR" for "People" so it comes out sounding vaguely insane?"People Ops" wtf
― El Tomboto, Monday, 28 March 2016 15:48 (eight years ago) link
Sort of surprised that in 2016 Buzzfeed is a name I trust for journalism. Vox, however, remains worthless.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Monday, 28 March 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
I really hate the current system of how articles reach us though, it's like all the newspapers have competing cornerboys with competing loudspeakers and our relative choices are determined by which is loudest or most piercing.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Monday, 28 March 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
okay so I went back to their job pages to find more new media terribleness et voila
https://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/195385?gh_jid=195385
Create Your Own Jobat Vox Media (View all jobs)Anywhere...If you’re interested in working at Vox.com, we want to hear from you! If there’s a specific open position you’re interested in, please apply there. But we’d also like to build our bench, so to speak, so when there’s an opening, we have incredible people top-of-mind. And we realize you may have a better idea for our next position, or even our next section, than we do! So if you want to pitch us on a role, please submit:
...If you’re interested in working at Vox.com, we want to hear from you! If there’s a specific open position you’re interested in, please apply there. But we’d also like to build our bench, so to speak, so when there’s an opening, we have incredible people top-of-mind. And we realize you may have a better idea for our next position, or even our next section, than we do! So if you want to pitch us on a role, please submit:
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
it's all around you
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
what's wrong with that
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
it's kind of a half-assed wavering between the corporate "put your resume in the system in case something pops up" with some "if you can dream it, maybe you can make it!" icing put on top
let's get real, they're not going to hire a rando to write a column based on a pitch. if you're pitching a cool new idea, it's to a person, not to an inbox
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
and by inbox I don't mean an email inbox, I mean an online resume management system
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
I hate this idea of "it's up to you to define the parameters!" Like, no. You're an employer. It's one of your most basic duties to define the job you want to pay for. You're just giving job seekers more unpaid work to do coming up with the job itself.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:06 (eight years ago) link
employers are pretty bad at defining jobs imo
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
Often, sure, but is making job seekers do it really "better"
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
i'm sure anyone who gets a 'create your own job' job will not mourn the unpaid hours they spent inventing it
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
think the point is that most who put in the time "apply" will not get the job
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link
to apply*
exactly. like, great for the one guy who gets the Oxford Comma Officer position or whatever, a ridiculous waste of time for everyone else, even moreso than regular job hunting
tbh though I also just really hate Vox which is making this seem extra annoying
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
feel like this ask is kinda "can we get somebody with a cool new idea we don't have to pay extra for and especially who we don't have to pay for the time s/he puts into developing it"
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMcuRl_shGE
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, April 26, 2016 4:15 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so?
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
so, there's no idea protection there! you could send vox a pitch through this form, they could think "hmm, that's a great idea" and do the whole thing without hiring you
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
I mean, companies getting prospective employees to pitch ideas and then stealing them wholesale isn't a new thing, but doing it via an employment application web form is very of our times
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
recode.net seems to have been assimilated design-wise, but I'm not sure what it does? It seems so credulous of the industry it covers. And every other article on the front page appears to be about Uber-Didi.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
every time i read something todd vanderwoof has written i gain some insight into why ppl send strangers death threats on the internet
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Wednesday, 10 August 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
recently considered pitching something to Vox proper
― flopson, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
do it, we need a vox contributor
― mh, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
this article is a ... journey...
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/9/12385772/hamilton-broadway-musical
(the genius annotated version is great, and probably the only way to get through reading the whole thing
http://genius.it/10231128/www.vox.com/2016/8/9/12385772/hamilton-broadway-musical)
― woke-ing class zero (s.clover), Saturday, 13 August 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
The often thousand dollar pricetag to even see Hamilton kind of prevents it from getting the backlash it deserves.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Saturday, 13 August 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
i haven't even tried to listen to the hamilton soundtrack but i fucking hate it
― Treeship, Saturday, 13 August 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
but you and it are woke af
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 August 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
feel like hamilton is what people who dont like rap music can listen to in order to be like YES I CAN SAY I LIKE IT NOW
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 13 August 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
i guess i don't understand why this happened before a popular musical was made about the life of a rapper
― Treeship, Saturday, 13 August 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
or just a slew of unauthorized musicals about living people.
― Treeship, Saturday, 13 August 2016 04:33 (seven years ago) link
I like the score plenty as a musical but those Genius annotations are richly deserved
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 13 August 2016 04:46 (seven years ago) link
is there an explainer for people who do just can't enjoy musicals
― mh, Saturday, 13 August 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
there was a big musical that came out and then it got way hyped by people who don't care about musicals and then the hype became too much so it started getting a lot of backlash from people who don't care about musicals and then the backlash started getting backlash from people who don't care about musicals (me)
― qualx, Saturday, 13 August 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
i have never heard 'rent' straight through but i always assumed it was the same kind of deal, i remember ppl throwing the word 'punk' around when i first knew people who liked it
― j., Saturday, 13 August 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
Oh man, I really like Hamilton and decided to give Rent a listen since people kept mentioning that as the last 'hip' musical. What a piece of crap. The first stretch is bad text being growled over the sound of guitar tuning, it's horrible. Then it becomes pure schmaltz. Worst musical ever.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 13 August 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
if we're just talking about hamilton i feel like we're missing 2/3 of why that article is amazing. you sort of have to bear with it to see where it goes.
― woke-ing class zero (s.clover), Saturday, 13 August 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Schmaltz is the point.
― Mordy, Saturday, 13 August 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
there aren't any reasonable people out there who think "gamergate was bad, but if they had a multi-million dollar effect, then maybe I will reevaluate my stance"
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.heartofthedreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/trustnoone.jpg
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
imo that's a weakness of the "facts matter" brigade I am a part of too regularly
they only matter if: - they are relevant - they're part of a reasonable argument or narrative, single facts are ignored by people - you're arguing to people who will pay any attention to you whatsoever
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
http://gamedesignreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/dontbe.jpg
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
imo the greatest science is recognizing biases and emotional responses, very underappreciated
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
that's what all these dickhole data journalists think
― j., Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
touche
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/behind-the-internets-dark-anti-democracy-movement/516243/
“No,” said Nick Steves, the pseudonym used by one NRxer well-known within the movement. “It will only lend false credence to the misleading facts and outright errors you will inevitably print irrespective of my involvement.”Asked what he thought I would print, Steves explained that “115 IQ people are not generally well equipped to summarize 160 IQ people” and that only one journalist, Vox’s Dylan Matthews, had “come close to permitting NRx to speak for itself.”
Asked what he thought I would print, Steves explained that “115 IQ people are not generally well equipped to summarize 160 IQ people” and that only one journalist, Vox’s Dylan Matthews, had “come close to permitting NRx to speak for itself.”
― j., Sunday, 12 February 2017 04:55 (seven years ago) link
160 IQ people who reference their IQ, as if citing that number wins every argument, are too stupid to understand what a 160 IQ is.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 12 February 2017 05:08 (seven years ago) link
"Nick Steves""Dylan Matthews"
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 12 February 2017 05:14 (seven years ago) link
xp otm
― if young satchmo don't trumpet i'm gon shoot you (m bison), Sunday, 12 February 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
I would say we need a eugenics program to keep anyone who goes around professing a 160 iq from reproducing, but they're doing pretty well with that on their own.
― mh 😏, Sunday, 12 February 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
I can't believe I never started a thread on what a shit show wired magazine is
― El Tomboto, Monday, 13 February 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
who is writing for vox media?
http://deadspin.com/leaked-data-show-vast-majority-of-sb-nation-page-views-1803138754
like no kidding SB nation is an aggregator
I just assume all those volunteers are big Jon Bois fans and are just contributing their FanPosts as a sort of sweat-equity Patreon to keep the Jon Bois Content Dream alive.I mean who would not support this guy: https://www.sbnation.com/2017/7/24/16003968/17776-questions-and-answers
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
Suggest Ban Nation?
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
it is boggling to me that there is still any audience for the verge or re/code since they are both terrible, overly earnest tech / nerd verticals that cover almost nothing that their competition doesn't, and the UX is still shit whether you're on mobile or desktop, etc etc.
I guess I still keep loading the verge in a tab from time to time because I hope one day it will improve despite knowing that the vox media house style is always going to grate and only 1 out of 40 times am I going to see anything I'm remotely interested in actually reading. It would be nice to see the whole farm pivot away from being so fucking watery and ditch the pretentiously neutered prose, but that seems highly unlikely. If it ain't broke don't fix it, I guess.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 3 December 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
went back to the verge again, they're asking what people would want in a membership / premium version (?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!??!??!!?!!?!?) and they couldn't even cover the new Star Wars trailer properly. Also, hilariously, almost none of the ads loaded in Safari on mobile. everybody loses!
The entire Vox Media enterprise makes it crystal clear that the only thing that matters is how easy it is to buy and sell ads while keeping overhead (i.e. staff writer wages) as "reasonable" as possible. Whether or not I, consumer, click on the ads clearly has no bearing on the system; whether the content is remotely interesting to anyone is the most trivial concern. It's like the iMDB model exported to news verticals. If anybody who actually understands this shit first hand would care to educate me as to why I'm wrong I'd love to learn.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link