@dizzydoinggreat I think being a hipster was less about which band you listened to and more about seeking out the most obscure and niche things possible and building a sense of superiority around that
After several years of declining search traffic, Condé Nast CEO @rogerlynch has directed all the company's brands to operate as if search traffic to their properties will be zero.
He says the era of turning search and social media traffic into profitable businesses is gone.
And that if you run a media business that doesn't have an authoritative brand, a very strong niche, or a direct audience, you're going to be fighting hostile algo changes all the way down.
He describes a recent board meeting:
"We took a snapshot of search results from seven or eight years ago. And what you saw were a few sponsored links, then the ten blue links."
"Do the same search today, you get an AI overview, then you get rows and rows and rows of commerce links, then you get sponsored stuff."
"Each of the last three years, we would do our budgets, and we'd put forecasts in of search traffic declining. Because we'd seen the pattern of algorithm changes. And generally those algorithm changes were negative."
"Every year, our search traffic was down more than we had forecast. So last year I told our teams, 'Assume there's no search.' You have to have your businesses planned as if search is zero. We don't expect it to be zero, we expect it to be a single-digit percentage of our traffic."
We are excited to be in the tournament and YES we are excited about going to Portland. A city that I have always enjoyed being in! As a matter of fact, one of the best players we have ever coached Terrence Jones was from there. Looking forward to the trip, even though it is quite a distance!
Just in: The NBA will hold a vote at the Board of Governors meetings March 24-25 to explore adding expansion teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle, with the two franchises targeted for the 2028-29 season, sources tell ESPN. There is momentum for stakeholders to approve surveying what industry executives project will be bids in the $7-to-$10 billion range for each team.
March 14, 2002: This uninterrupted minute of gameplay in Portland.
The Trail Blazers scored 73 points in the first half of their 132-106 win over Dallas. Rasheed Wallace scored 37 PTS (14-21 FG/6-10 3P) and Scottie Pippen added 14 PTS/12 AST for Portland.
Reporters call him contemptuous. His teammates call him the most genuine superstar ever.
From $8k tips for housekeepers to gifting a teammate the bracelet off his wrist, here is the side of Russell Westbrook that he hides from fans and media:
https://t.co/t0xEobI0Wv
Nathan Martin, a 36-year-old high school cross-country coach from Jackson, Michigan, won the 2026 Los Angeles Marathon by running past Kenya’s Michael Kamau in the final second.
Kevin Durant on who’s the best player he’s ever played with
“It’s a tie between Steph and Russ. With Russ I never ever feared that he was gon lose a matchup. That’s one thing I never worried about. Having that comfort from the point guard just made my life easier”.
This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal