I stood, chanted, and waved a sign in a torrential downpour at one of the very well-attended St. Louis protests yesterday and it never felt so incredible to be drenched to the bone.
1. In their defense, most people don't seem to understand that the author of the article don't write their own headlines. So it's a bonus that, I'm that whole brouhaha about Arch, I don't see The Author's name mentioned anywhere. They not only didn't read the article, they didn't even make it to the byline before the frothing began.
2. Though we already have two fine senators, I would happily keep you around as backup.
3. We spent two hours waving signs at passers-by, and then we went downtown on Game Day and voted. No better way to defend Democracy than to exercise it.
The Dodgers are gonna repeat. If the starters can keep their middle relief from covering too many innings, and Ohtani hits a homer every at bat, they should be in good shape.
Re: Headlines - As a journalist who also is responsible for our organization's daily email newsletter, we found that the open rate is higher when the title is just Publication Name - Date. Including the top stories immediately reduced the number of opens (in an experiment that was quickly).
I had never considered it until now, but I always open your newsletter to actually read the content, versus judging whether or not the topic is relevant to me from the headline (I probably would have skipped it if you led with college football).
Re: Social media - It would be wonderful if the various social media platforms would place a little asterisk next to the commenters who never clicked to open the link.
“that reading comprehension has been largely replaced by people (and not just kids) scrolling mindlessly”
We have a social media ban for U16s coming into effect in Australia shortly, after watching my older relatives get slowly radicalised by Facebook over the last few years my theory is a ban for over 65s might make more sense
Also on that AA piece, what is Danny Kannels problem with you?
I did hear your article discussed on sxm84 College Sports by Kris Budden and i think Ben Hartsock. They read parts of the article and I think Kris brought it up and was the most offended.
Anyway, I was at the Kentucky VS Texas game tonight. I'm not an expert but I've been watching football for 67 years and i know enough. I was not impressed with Arch in this game at all. Nor was my wife who really wanted him to be good. Actually the 4 guys from Texas sitting in front of us basically said we're stuck with him now because no one is going to want to pay much money to take him away.
I hope he gets good. We are not rooting for him to fail. The people who should be called out are all the football writers and talkers who sold us on him being something he is not. At least yet.
One takeaway - I left Twitter and don’t regret it. Which is sad since I was using it within weeks of its inception and liked it until 2020 or so. Oh well.
Also hell yeah to taking part in No Kings. Be heard. Be seen. Show up.
I stood, chanted, and waved a sign in a torrential downpour at one of the very well-attended St. Louis protests yesterday and it never felt so incredible to be drenched to the bone.
1. In their defense, most people don't seem to understand that the author of the article don't write their own headlines. So it's a bonus that, I'm that whole brouhaha about Arch, I don't see The Author's name mentioned anywhere. They not only didn't read the article, they didn't even make it to the byline before the frothing began.
2. Though we already have two fine senators, I would happily keep you around as backup.
3. We spent two hours waving signs at passers-by, and then we went downtown on Game Day and voted. No better way to defend Democracy than to exercise it.
The Dodgers are gonna repeat. If the starters can keep their middle relief from covering too many innings, and Ohtani hits a homer every at bat, they should be in good shape.
I’m guessing you’re not one of the “less than 10,000 daily viewers” watching Wake Up Barstool on FS1?
Hey, that's how many viewers "The Will Leitch Show" had too!
Re: Headlines - As a journalist who also is responsible for our organization's daily email newsletter, we found that the open rate is higher when the title is just Publication Name - Date. Including the top stories immediately reduced the number of opens (in an experiment that was quickly).
I had never considered it until now, but I always open your newsletter to actually read the content, versus judging whether or not the topic is relevant to me from the headline (I probably would have skipped it if you led with college football).
Re: Social media - It would be wonderful if the various social media platforms would place a little asterisk next to the commenters who never clicked to open the link.
“that reading comprehension has been largely replaced by people (and not just kids) scrolling mindlessly”
We have a social media ban for U16s coming into effect in Australia shortly, after watching my older relatives get slowly radicalised by Facebook over the last few years my theory is a ban for over 65s might make more sense
Also on that AA piece, what is Danny Kannels problem with you?
I did hear your article discussed on sxm84 College Sports by Kris Budden and i think Ben Hartsock. They read parts of the article and I think Kris brought it up and was the most offended.
Anyway, I was at the Kentucky VS Texas game tonight. I'm not an expert but I've been watching football for 67 years and i know enough. I was not impressed with Arch in this game at all. Nor was my wife who really wanted him to be good. Actually the 4 guys from Texas sitting in front of us basically said we're stuck with him now because no one is going to want to pay much money to take him away.
I hope he gets good. We are not rooting for him to fail. The people who should be called out are all the football writers and talkers who sold us on him being something he is not. At least yet.
One takeaway - I left Twitter and don’t regret it. Which is sad since I was using it within weeks of its inception and liked it until 2020 or so. Oh well.
Also hell yeah to taking part in No Kings. Be heard. Be seen. Show up.
Can I be mad that I read the whole thing?
Oh, this is always a reasonable reaction to anything I write, of course.
See ya' for Sqwuakkin' next month👍. Thanks