10 Slideshows You Must See RIGHT NOW!
OK, online media publishers - enough with the freakin' slideshows! They're nothing but a waste of time to those who click through all those pages of The World's Top 10 Shellfish and the Best Tasting Fruits You've Never Tasted. What's the real reason for these time suckages? Page views and ad impressions - the life force of online media (yes, I admit, my humble blog also depends on these metrics). And what's the best way to rack up page views and ad impressions? Slideshows with one image and, on average, three ads per page. Multiply that by the Top 50 Female Insurance Industry Executives - and you get the idea.
But you didn't come to this page for my rant against Slideshows - you came to see 10 SLIDESHOWS YOU MUST SEE RIGHT NOW! Let's get to it! (Note: I have mercifully avoided the obvious and did not put this in Slideshow format.)
10 Unbelievable, Unlikely Animal Friendships
What Booze Looks Like Under A Microscope
Foxes Of Finance
11 Craziest Things About The Universe
Top 10 Best Tennis Bottoms
19 Signs The Economy Is Worse Now Than Ever In Your Lifetime
The 20 Most Ridiculous Looks From The Spring 2011 Men's Collections
Top Grossing Animated Movies Of All Time
Top 10 Mobsters
And no Slideshow list is complete without the almost daily CNBC offering of WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE PLACES TO LIVE.
World's Most Expensive Places To Live
And the irony is, this will be my most popular blog to date. Perhaps I should ignore my own comment above and get into the Slideshow racket. My first one would be Top 10 Negative Ben Silverman Blogs - all of them coming from me.
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About Jill Kennedy
Jill Kennedy is an Ivy League MBA / refugee from Lehman Brothers.
Manka Bros. (and the Manka Business Channel) hired her (for a very low sum) to cover the world of media (not the world of Medea) in her own words without corporate interference.
About Medea
Medea was a real bitch from classical mythology - as most famously dramatized by Euripides.
She was a sorceress and wife of Jason, whom she assisted in obtaining the Golden Fleece. When Jason deserted her, she chopped up their children. One could say, Medea acted as rationally as a major media company.
Tips, Scoops and Smoking Guns
Sorry, Jill, I actually like slideshows. AT work I'm mostly looking for some kind of "time suckage" to get me through the day.
Roger Ebert refused to have his stuff reworked in slideshow format on Huffington Post for just that very reason. Bumping up pageviews.
You need more animal slideshows.
Than unlikely friends one is great.
Just out of curiosity, what's the best way to create one of these slideshows on a wordpress blog?