Love is a Bull Market

I don't have a Facebook profile and I've honestly never poked around the site to see what it has to offer. I wouldn't know what an actual Facebook profile looked like if it sat and spun on my nose. But apparently they have widgets. Tons of them. ("What's a widget? It's a fictional product. It doesn't matter." Name that movie!) I make this point only to show my ignorance, not any distaste for social media or so-called widgets. The above Facebook feature was sent to me awhile ago. I'm still not sure how I would vote or what is taking me so long to sign up.

More interesting is this image from Compete, a site that attempts to produce comparable web traffic analyses but delivers like a less inaccurate Alexa. Oh well, charts are still fun, right? This one trends traffic for Dealbreaker which Elizabeth Spiers founded and soon found out that she needed someone like John Carney to write it.

Hmm, what happened in mid-April that would breathe new life into Dead Horse Media? Oh yeah, you have to discard the jokers before playing a real hand.

BTW, did you see her piece in The New Republic on the new issue of Portfolio? Wow. I'm falling in love all over again. In the history of disclosures written by Spiers, that one is like a fuckin' 12. Amazing. The best part is her barely contained seething hatred for Portfolio EIC Joanne Lipman. If Spiers came across Lipman stranded in the woods with her leg in a bear (or bull) trap, Spiers would gnaw through Lipman's neck veins just to make sure she died.

Previously: Nation of Ulysses - "Love is a Bull Market"