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    Joe.ie & the like

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    • #32
      Irishcrx
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      Ush1 wrote: »
      Google weren't multi-billion when they started.

      Nope they started their Irish operations in a little run down barn of an office that had ten people in it sitting at desks full of dust and barely standing up...

      Now they have 4 buildings in grand canal dock and 6 in eastpoint business park...all state of the art...

      Well that escalated quickly!


    • #33
      arayess
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      Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
      My brother is always posting Joe.ie articles to his Facebook page. I visited it once. Full of moronic nonsense about being a 'bloke' and 'the footie'.

      I'm glad to see your distain and sneer for everybody and everything non- michelin star has no boundary.


    • #34
      Minjor
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      awec wrote: »
      I have no problem with joe.ie

      I fcuking despise LAD Bible / Sport Bible and all the rest of those ridiculous clickbait sites that always show up on my facebook feed. "Man buys sandwich, you will not believe what happened next!". "The most insane transfer story ever has just leaked from Spain! Do you believe this can happen?!"

      Absolute gutter "journalism".

      You won't see them again if you block those pages.

      A while back I noticed there were several Lebanese radio stations spreading viral images, and I'd see their posts at least five times a day without even liking the page.

      Blocked Buzzfeed too the other day as it seemed their "articles" would appear on my newsfeed every time a friend liked one of them, which was very often.


    • #35
      everlast75
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      C*nts are dead to me since they revealed the Wrestlemania results as soon as they happened, before I got a chance to watch it the next day :mad::mad:

      Elect a clown... Expect a circus



    • #36
      Ush1
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      JohnnyChimpo wrote: »
      i wonder if joe.ie will have a $23bn IPO like Google though...

      Who knows, they both don't do original content though!


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    • #37
      The_Captain
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      The only thing worse than a dullard is a dullard who won't let a point go


    • #38
      lazybones32
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      Banjaxed82 wrote: »
      What's the future for Joe.ie & the like? - Websites that essentially survive on other people's content. Is it really something that's sustainable going forward?

      I notice (especially in the last few months) how these websites are posting and reposting the same stories a few times a day, obviously struggling with lack of content to justify the daily quote of posts they must put online via their various social media sources.

      Content is king, and if you create your own (quality) content, you're on to a good one. What will become of these sites?

      The Readers Digest exists by printing other magazines stories, etc. and it is still profitable.

      I'd rather have someone filter out the inane and compile the interesting; it saves a lot of time. To trawl the web to find everything out yourself, is a job I'd rather leave to those who live on-line.


    • #39
      MonkeyTennis
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      They drive me up the wall. I look at newswhip for my news and its been taken over by dreadful nonsense from joe.ie / her.ie

      It seems 'banter' between 2 z list celebs or rubgy players has become a story.


    • #40
      Banjaxed82
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      lazybones32 wrote: »
      The Readers Digest exists by printing other magazines stories, etc. and it is still profitable.

      I'd rather have someone filter out the inane and compile the interesting; it saves a lot of time. To trawl the web to find everything out yourself, is a job I'd rather leave to those who live on-line.

      :eek::eek:

      Have you read some of the stuff they put up on Joe?


    • #41
      CantGetNoSleep
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      The worst is LovinDublin, makes me want to punch the screen


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    • #42
      WoollyRedHat
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      joe.ie, even the name is ****ing annoying.


    • #43
      MonkeyTennis
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      oh and Mummypages.ie


    • #44
      Ush1
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      Irishcrx wrote: »
      Nope they started their Irish operations in a little run down barn of an office that had ten people in it sitting at desks full of dust and barely standing up...

      Now they have 4 buildings in grand canal dock and 6 in eastpoint business park...all state of the art...

      Well that escalated quickly!

      Yep, an they were even late to the party. There was a bunch of well established search engines already at the time.


    • #45
      AnonoBoy
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      Ush1 wrote: »
      Yep, an they were even late to the party. There was a bunch of well established search engines already at the time.

      Altavista until I die baby!


    • #46
      The_Valeyard
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      AnonoBoy wrote: »
      Altavista until I die baby!

      Duckduckgo man myself.


    • #47
      AnonoBoy
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      The_Valeyard wrote: »
      Duckduckgo man myself.

      Let the search engine hipsterism begin!


    • #48
      Eoin
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      awec wrote: »
      I fcuking despise LAD Bible / Sport Bible and all the rest of those ridiculous clickbait sites that always show up on my facebook feed. "Man buys sandwich, you will not believe what happened next!". "The most insane transfer story ever has just leaked from Spain! Do you believe this can happen?!"

      You Forgot The Capitalisation Of Every Word In The Title!


    • #49
      lazybones32
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      Banjaxed82 wrote: »
      :eek::eek:

      Have you read some of the stuff they put up on Joe?

      No. I just look at the women.


    • #50
      louiseber
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      Journalism is dead. Any student considering a career in this field should jump ship now. In the past, a professional journalist had a list of contacts he could rely on for sources and was probably acquainted with police officers, judges and politicians. He hit the street and conducted interviews and investigations.

      These days, journalists are pimple-faced "new media" graduates who think that compiling a list of "top 10 cartoon shows that define your childhood" constitutes journalism. They lift articles from reputable news sites, like the NY Times, and sensationalise them into click-bait trash with the aim of generating as much advertising revenue as possible. The problem now is that the parasite is killing the hosts. Quality papers like the NY Times will eventually go out of business as the public refuse to pay for news, but then where will aggregator sites like thejournal rob their stories from?


    • #51
      robbiezero
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      Eoin wrote: »
      You Forgot The Capitalisation Of Every Word In The Title!

      Dont forget "X just won Twitter".


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    • #52
      jack presley
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      I know it's all about getting hits on the site but it's really annoying when their Twitter feed describes a photo and includes a link to it but they include a different picture in the actual tweet. If you're not going to include the actual photo in the tweet, don't include any.


    • #53
      Tarzana2
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      Guy from my year in school wrote for joe.ie for a while. He did pass English for both the Junior and Leaving Cert. That will show you what their standards are like!


    • #54
      connundrum
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      Churnalism.

      But, theres a time and a place for everything.
      Tarzana2 wrote: »
      Guy from my year in school wrote for joe.ie for a while. He did pass English for both the Junior and Leaving Cert. That will show you what their standards are like!

      What has this got to do with the price of bread?

      Have you read a Niamh Horan article?


    • #55
      Cienciano
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      Would people stop reading and clicking the fúcking articles if they hate them so much!


    • #56
      Fred Swanson
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    • #57
      The_B_Man
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      Cienciano wrote: »
      Would people stop reading and clicking the fúcking articles if they hate them so much!

      Its impossible. Clickbaiting just works too well. I ALWAYS want to know what happens next! :o


    • #58
      Cienciano
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      The_B_Man wrote: »
      Its impossible. Clickbaiting just works too well. I ALWAYS want to know what happens next! :o

      Do not follow OMG facts on twitter. They have clickbaiting down to a fine art, even buzzfeed doesn't come close.
      http://www.omgfacts.com/ scroll down and resist the urge. It's impossible to reach the end without clicking


    • #59
      connundrum
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      Cienciano wrote: »
      Do not follow OMG facts on twitter. They have clickbaiting down to a fine art, even buzzfeed doesn't come close.
      http://www.omgfacts.com/ scroll down and resist the urge. It's impossible to reach the end without clicking

      Damn you!


    • #60
      3hn2givr7mx1sc
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      Tarzana2 wrote: »
      Guy from my year in school wrote for joe.ie for a while. He did pass English for both the Junior and Leaving Cert. That will show you what their standards are like!

      Meh, essay writing, reviewing poetry and learning off Hamlet quotes =/= journalism.

      Having a way with words helps, obviously. If you're good at getting stories, talking to people and pumping out news articles none of that stuff is particularly relevant. Sub-editors are there for grammar mistakes and re-writing sentences.


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    • #61
      mickydoomsux
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      These awful sites are for people who don't use the internet for anything other than Facebook and Snapchat.

      Anyone else who is a regular user will just automatically filter this garbage out and wouldn't click on it in a million years.


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