Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
Nick DentonBen Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.
Nick DentonAn employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
Nick DentonI don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.
Nick DentonGoogle and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.
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