New York Post… They’re gonna love him. “He’s not gonna be real loud, but as soon as adversity hits you’re gonna know what kind of leader, what kind of toughness you got in that guy. I just feel very confident. I think he’s gonna be a perfect fit for New York. He … …read more […]
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Bus Rollover in Texas Kills 8 and Injures 44 – New York Times
New York TimesA bus that was traveling to a casino in Texas rolled over on Saturday, killing eight. Credit Danny Zaragoza/Laredo Morning Times. Eight people were killed and 44 injured after their charter bus rolled over on a South Texas highway on Saturday morning, … and more …read more From:: New York City News By […]
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World’s Oldest Person Dies in New York at Age 116 – ABC News
ABC NewsFILE – In this Monday, June 22, 2015 photo, Lois Judge, left, helps her aunt Susannah Mushatt Jones, during breakfast in Jones’ room at the Vandalia Avenue Houses, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Jones, the world’s oldest person, has died in New … and more …read more From:: New York City News […]
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Feisty thunderstorms to sweep from Kansas City, Missouri, to New York City – AccuWeather.com
Feisty thunderstorms to sweep from Kansas City, Missouri, to New York CityAccuWeather.comHowever, the storms will get new life on Saturday near and east of the Appalachians, as the sun begins to warm the air. Areas from Virginia and Maryland to Delaware, New Jersey, central and eastern Pennsylvania and eastern New York state will be at […]
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Union to represent 35000 Uber drivers in New York City, but with limits – CNNMoney
CNNMoneyA union has gotten its foot in the door at Uber for the first time. Uber announced Tuesday that it has recognized the newly formed Independent Drivers Guild, which will represent 35,000 drivers in New York City. The Guild is affiliated with the …Uber and Union Agree to Form Drivers Guild in New York CityBloombergUber […]
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Suicide on Periscope Prompts France to Open Inquiry – New York Times
Suicide on Periscope Prompts France to Open InquiryNew York TimesRegulators have been trying to get a hold on new social media tools, like Periscope and Snapchat, mostly out of concern about their use by extremist organizations like the Islamic State. “These companies will inevitably have to comply with new rules,” Mr. and more …read more […]
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Hillary Clinton is unraveling quickly – New York Post
New York PostThe New York Times shows a similar concern. Surely written with furrowed brow, its front page worries because “Sparring in GOP Rises” and because “Rift Grows Wide as Republicans Abandon Trump.” It joins two other concerned lefties, the Huffington Post …Paul Ryan Revives a Lost Washington ArtNew York Times all 9,127 news articles […]
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New York Today: The Big Oyster – New York Times
New York TimesNew York Harbor was rich with oysters as far back as when Lenape tribes lived here, and the Dutch once called Ellis Island the Little Oyster Island and Liberty Island the Great Oyster Island. Oysters helped keep the water clean and swimming with life … and more …read more From:: New York City […]
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New Attack Reported on Global Bank Network – New York Times
New York TimesThe unusual warning from Swift, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times, shows how serious the financial industry regards these attacks to be. Some banking experts say they may be impossible to solve or trace. Swift said the thieves somehow … and more …read more From:: New York City […]
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Union Raises Pay-Gap Issues at New York Times – Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalA study conducted by the Communications Workers of America on behalf of the New York NewsGuild found that union-represented minority employees at the Times earn 10% less than the average wage at the paper, while women are paid 7% less. Minority … and more …read more From:: New York City News By Google […]
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Brazil’s Senate Votes to Begin Impeachment Trial of Dilma Rousseff – New York Times
New York TimesAfter Brazil’s senate voted to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and begin an impeachment trial against her, Brazilians across the country reacted to the news. By THE NEW YORK TIMES on Publish Date May 12, 2016. Photo by Paulo Whitaker/Reuters. and more …read more From:: New York City News By Google News
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Russian Insider Says State-Run Doping Fueled Olympic Gold – New York Times
New York TimesThe director of Russia’s antidoping laboratory at the time of the Sochi Games said urine samples were surreptitiously replaced by somehow breaking into supposedly tamper-proof bottles. Credit Tony Cenicola/The New York Times. LOS ANGELES — Dozens …Russia used pee-swapping spies to get away with massive Olympics dopingNew York Post all 102 news articles […]
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Yankees view DL as last resort for Jacoby Ellsbury – New York Post
New York PostThat’s why New York quickly has warmed up to Aroldis Chapman, he of the 100 mph fastballs. “Velocity is something in our game that is exciting,” Girardi said. “And anytime they see triple-digits, I think they become even more excited. Ninety-seven and … and more …read more From:: New York City News By […]
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Judge Finds Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Unfit for Trial – New York Times
Judge Finds Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Unfit for TrialNew York TimesRobert L. Dear Jr. at a court hearing in Colorado Springs in December. Credit Pool photo by Andy Cross. COLORADO SPRINGS — A Colorado judge on Wednesday declared the confessed gunman in a shooting rampage last November at a Planned … and more …read more […]
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Influencer Economy, Content, Teenagers Attached By Gawker's Andy Cush In Mindless Blog Post
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The Influencer Economy and content are on the decline and teenagers are totally worthless if Gawker's Andy Cush is to be believed. The truth is the reverse. An Influencer is one who takes time to convince others to do a something, or not do a something. In the blog Gawker, Andy Cush uses his obvious hatred for teenage influencers as the basis for a sad, personal, insulting, and completely ridiculous rant and at the end proclaims the Influencer economy dead. But what got me stirred up was his proclamation that "you can't rely on content creators all day long." Ok. So here is a contest creator making content to tell us content can't be relied on? Well, if you consider how wrong his content is, he is right. But he had to make the content for me to react to it, and say it's wrong. So all Andy Cush proved is that content matters. To be sure there are brands who have made mistakes in how they manage a relationship with an influencer, but that blithely ignores the large number of very successful campaigns. Consider one that the social media company Tap Influencer did in 2012. Their Twitter based effort to market the Google Nexus phone managed to hit the Worldwide Twitter Trend. Moreover, the game-show approach actually put phones in the hands of those who used Twitter to answer product-based questions. My bet is they could have sold a few phones too, if that is what the client wanted. Dissing Influencers and content just throws the social media baby out with the bath water and misses an important point: it's how the content is created and what it's designed to do that impacts a brand. Thus, a well SEOed series of videos by A Vlogger can alter a search result that can impact a brand. Want proof? Go to Google as of the date of this blog post and search for 'NFL draft hotel' - make sure your private results are turned off. Then click on videos - 9 of the 10 videos are about one hotel: The Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago. All of the nine were made by me. It was a reward to the hotel for great service to me - I covered the NFL Draft in Chicago in 2015 and 2016. See? Now I have promoted that hotel and for some time or until someone tries to alter the results - and they can only do that with, you guessed it, more content. Content is what an Influencer is paid to produce. The discussion should be on how to get better bang for an Influencer buck and not this whining about teenagers on the part of someone who seems to have. It in for teenagers. Teenagers are two things: young and idealistic. That means they don have all the answers but are eager to find them. The Gawker guy disses them whole cloth for this. He blasts then for not knowing what an Influencer does but wanting to be one. Here is a guy who is a content creator, blasting other wanna be content creators for being too young to know that what they produce can influence someone, rather than teaching them how to do what he is, in effect, doing. There is one word for that: mean. Folks, pay this guy no mind. His rant contributes nothing of real value other than to piss off content creators who have more than a clue. The Influencer Economy is alive and well. Thankfully folks like Andy Cush have no real role in it. Stay tuned.
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The Influencer Economy and content are on the decline and teenagers are totally worthless if Gawker's Andy Cush is to be believed. The truth is the reverse. An Influencer is one who takes time to convince others to do a something, or not do a something. In the blog Gawker, Andy Cush uses his obvious hatred for teenage influencers as the basis for a sad, personal, insulting, and completely ridiculous rant and at the end proclaims the Influencer economy dead. But what got me stirred up was his proclamation that "you can't rely on content creators all day long." Ok. So here is a contest creator making content to tell us content can't be relied on? Well, if you consider how wrong his content is, he is right. But he had to make the content for me to react to it, and say it's wrong. So all Andy Cush proved is that content matters. To be sure there are brands who have made mistakes in how they manage a relationship with an influencer, but that blithely ignores the large number of very successful campaigns. Consider one that the social media company Tap Influencer did in 2012. Their Twitter based effort to market the Google Nexus phone managed to hit the Worldwide Twitter Trend. Moreover, the game-show approach actually put phones in the hands of those who used Twitter to answer product-based questions. My bet is they could have sold a few phones too, if that is what the client wanted. Dissing Influencers and content just throws the social media baby out with the bath water and misses an important point: it's how the content is created and what it's designed to do that impacts a brand. Thus, a well SEOed series of videos by A Vlogger can alter a search result that can impact a brand. Want proof? Go to Google as of the date of this blog post and search for 'NFL draft hotel' - make sure your private results are turned off. Then click on videos - 9 of the 10 videos are about one hotel: The Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago. All of the nine were made by me. It was a reward to the hotel for great service to me - I covered the NFL Draft in Chicago in 2015 and 2016. See? Now I have promoted that hotel and for some time or until someone tries to alter the results - and they can only do that with, you guessed it, more content. Content is what an Influencer is paid to produce. The discussion should be on how to get better bang for an Influencer buck and not this whining about teenagers on the part of someone who seems to have. It in for teenagers. Teenagers are two things: young and idealistic. That means they don have all the answers but are eager to find them. The Gawker guy disses them whole cloth for this. He blasts then for not knowing what an Influencer does but wanting to be one. Here is a guy who is a content creator, blasting other wanna be content creators for being too young to know that what they produce can influence someone, rather than teaching them how to do what he is, in effect, doing. There is one word for that: mean. Folks, pay this guy no mind. His rant contributes nothing of real value other than to piss off content creators who have more than a clue. The Influencer Economy is alive and well. Thankfully folks like Andy Cush have no real role in it. Stay tuned.
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MAP: The New York Primary by NYC Neighborhood – WNYC
MAP: The New York Primary by NYC NeighborhoodWNYCWe settled on New York City’s map of Neighborhood Tabulation Areas, which is imperfect but divides the city into roughly equal population chunks. Votes are counted and sent to us via the Associated Press by New York City election districts, which tend … …read more From:: New York […]
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Nation’s Racists Suddenly Warming Up to New York – The New Yorker
The New YorkerNEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—America’s racists, who have long viewed New York with a mixture of hostility, contempt, and fear, are suddenly feeling much more positive about the Empire State, a cross-section of racists confirmed on Tuesday night. …read more From:: New York City News By Google News
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Liberal Biases, Too, May Block Progress on Climate Change – New York Times
New York TimesThat may sound like a strange question, particularly to readers of The New York Times. Today conservatives are the ones decidedly blocking any effort by the United States to curb its emissions of greenhouse gases. And yet even as progressive … and more …read more From:: New York City News By Google News
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New York Voters Face Problems at the Polls – New York Times
New York TimesCiting concerns about potential voting irregularities, the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, said that his office would audit the New York City Board of Elections. The inquiry would focus, in part, on the removal of tens of thousands of voters from …Comptroller Will Audit New York City Board of ElectionsObserverNew York City watchdog […]
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New York Today: Special Elections – New York Times
New York Times[New York Times]. • Congratulations to all of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners, which include The New York Times, The Associated Press and “Hamilton,” among others. [New York Times]. • If you’re thinking of taking a “ballot selfie” at the polls today … and more …read more From:: New York City News By […]
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Our Woman in New York: New York Primary Day, at Last – New York Times
New York TimesMaggie Haberman, a New York Times political correspondent, has devoted her journalistic career to two irresistible subjects: politics and New York City. At age 7, she had her first byline in The Daily News; it has now appeared in all three New York …What to watch in New York’s primaryCNNHow New York will […]
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Through the Looking Glass with Ben Rhodes – New York Times
New York TimesAfter the dust-up over the Iran deal was safely over — I thought — I pitched my editors at The New York Times Magazine on a profile of Ben Rhodes. They agreed to it. I then asked Rhodes in December of last year if he would be willing to cooperate for … and […]
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Mustafa Badreddine, Hezbollah Military Commander, Is Killed in Syria – New York Times
New York TimesMustafa Amine Badreddine died in a “huge blast” near the Damascus airport, the group’s television network said. Credit Hezbollah, via Associated Press. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Hezbollah’s top military commander, who was … and more …read more From:: New York City News By Google News
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Influencer Economy, Content, Teenagers Attached By Gawker's Andy Cush In Mindless Rant
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The Influencer Economy and content are on the decline and teenagers are totally worthless if Gawker's Andy Cush is to be believed. The truth is the reverse. An Influencer is one who takes time to convince others to do a something, or not do a something. In the blog Gawker, Andy Cush uses his obvious hatred for teenage influencers as the basis for a sad, personal, insulting, and completely ridiculous rant and at the end proclaims the Influencer economy dead. But what got me stirred up was his proclamation that "you can't rely on content creators all day long." Ok. So here is a contest creator making content to tell us content can't be relied on? Well, if you consider how wrong his content is, he is right. But he had to make the content for me to react to it, and say it's wrong. So all Andy Cush proved is that content matters. To be sure there are brands who have made mistakes in how they manage a relationship with an influencer, but that blithely ignores the large number of very successful campaigns. Consider one that the social media company Tap Influencer did in 2012. Their Twitter based effort to market the Google Nexus phone managed to hit the Worldwide Twitter Trend. Moreover, the game-show approach actually put phones in the hands of those who used Twitter to answer product-based questions. My bet is they could have sold a few phones too, if that is what the client wanted. Dissing Influencers and content just throws the social media baby out with the bath water and misses an important point: it's how the content is created and what it's designed to do that impacts a brand. Thus, a well SEOed series of videos by A Vlogger can alter a search result that can impact a brand. Want proof? Go to Google as of the date of this blog post and search for 'NFL draft hotel' - make sure your private results are turned off. Then click on videos - 9 of the 10 videos are about one hotel: The Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago. All of the nine were made by me. It was a reward to the hotel for great service to me - I covered the NFL Draft in Chicago in 2015 and 2016. See? Now I have promoted that hotel and for some time or until someone tries to alter the results - and they can only do that with, you guessed it, more content. Content is what an Influencer is paid to produce. The discussion should be on how to get better bang for an Influencer buck and not this whining about teenagers on the part of someone who seems to have. It in for teenagers. Teenagers are two things: young and idealistic. That means they don have all the answers but are eager to find them. The Gawker guy disses them whole cloth for this. He blasts then for not knowing what an Influencer does but wanting to be one. Here is a guy who is a content creator, blasting other wanna be content creators for being too young to know that what they produce can influence someone, rather than teaching them how to do what he is, in effect, doing. There is one word for that: mean. Folks, pay this guy no mind. His rant contributes nothing of real value other than to piss off content creators who have more than a clue. The Influencer Economy is alive and well. Thankfully folks like Andy Cush have no real role in it. Stay tuned.
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The Influencer Economy and content are on the decline and teenagers are totally worthless if Gawker's Andy Cush is to be believed. The truth is the reverse. An Influencer is one who takes time to convince others to do a something, or not do a something. In the blog Gawker, Andy Cush uses his obvious hatred for teenage influencers as the basis for a sad, personal, insulting, and completely ridiculous rant and at the end proclaims the Influencer economy dead. But what got me stirred up was his proclamation that "you can't rely on content creators all day long." Ok. So here is a contest creator making content to tell us content can't be relied on? Well, if you consider how wrong his content is, he is right. But he had to make the content for me to react to it, and say it's wrong. So all Andy Cush proved is that content matters. To be sure there are brands who have made mistakes in how they manage a relationship with an influencer, but that blithely ignores the large number of very successful campaigns. Consider one that the social media company Tap Influencer did in 2012. Their Twitter based effort to market the Google Nexus phone managed to hit the Worldwide Twitter Trend. Moreover, the game-show approach actually put phones in the hands of those who used Twitter to answer product-based questions. My bet is they could have sold a few phones too, if that is what the client wanted. Dissing Influencers and content just throws the social media baby out with the bath water and misses an important point: it's how the content is created and what it's designed to do that impacts a brand. Thus, a well SEOed series of videos by A Vlogger can alter a search result that can impact a brand. Want proof? Go to Google as of the date of this blog post and search for 'NFL draft hotel' - make sure your private results are turned off. Then click on videos - 9 of the 10 videos are about one hotel: The Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago. All of the nine were made by me. It was a reward to the hotel for great service to me - I covered the NFL Draft in Chicago in 2015 and 2016. See? Now I have promoted that hotel and for some time or until someone tries to alter the results - and they can only do that with, you guessed it, more content. Content is what an Influencer is paid to produce. The discussion should be on how to get better bang for an Influencer buck and not this whining about teenagers on the part of someone who seems to have. It in for teenagers. Teenagers are two things: young and idealistic. That means they don have all the answers but are eager to find them. The Gawker guy disses them whole cloth for this. He blasts then for not knowing what an Influencer does but wanting to be one. Here is a guy who is a content creator, blasting other wanna be content creators for being too young to know that what they produce can influence someone, rather than teaching them how to do what he is, in effect, doing. There is one word for that: mean. Folks, pay this guy no mind. His rant contributes nothing of real value other than to piss off content creators who have more than a clue. The Influencer Economy is alive and well. Thankfully folks like Andy Cush have no real role in it. Stay tuned.
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The Influencer Economy and content are on the decline and teenagers are totally worthless if Gawker's Andy Cush is to be believed. The truth is the reverse. An Influencer is one who takes time to convince others to do a something, or not do a something. In the blog Gawker, Andy Cush uses his obvious hatred for teenage influencers as the basis for a sad, personal, insulting, and completely ridiculous rant and at the end proclaims the Influencer economy dead. But what got me stirred up was his proclamation that "you can't rely on content creators all day long." Ok. So here is a contest creator making content to tell us content can't be relied on? Well, if you consider how wrong his content is, he is right. But he had to make the content for me to react to it, and say it's wrong. So all Andy Cush proved is that content matters. To be sure there are brands who have made mistakes in how they manage a relationship with an influencer, but that blithely ignores the large number of very successful campaigns. Consider one that the social media company Tap Influencer did in 2012. Their Twitter based effort to market the Google Nexus phone managed to hit the Worldwide Twitter Trend. Moreover, the game-show approach actually put phones in the hands of those who used Twitter to answer product-based questions. My bet is they could have sold a few phones too, if that is what the client wanted. Dissing Influencers and content just throws the social media baby out with the bath water and misses an important point: it's how the content is created and what it's designed to do that impacts a brand. Thus, a well SEOed series of videos by A Vlogger can alter a search result that can impact a brand. Want proof? Go to Google as of the date of this blog post and search for 'NFL draft hotel' - make sure your private results are turned off. Then click on videos - 9 of the 10 videos are about one hotel: The Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago. All of the nine were made by me. It was a reward to the hotel for great service to me - I covered the NFL Draft in Chicago in 2015 and 2016. See? Now I have promoted that hotel and for some time or until someone tries to alter the results - and they can only do that with, you guessed it, more content. Content is what an Influencer is paid to produce. The discussion should be on how to get better bang for an Influencer buck and not this whining about teenagers on the part of someone who seems to have. It in for teenagers. Teenagers are two things: young and idealistic. That means they don have all the answers but are eager to find them. The Gawker guy disses them whole cloth for this. He blasts then for not knowing what an Influencer does but wanting to be one. Here is a guy who is a content creator, blasting other wanna be content creators for being too young to know that what they produce can influence someone, rather than teaching them how to do what he is, in effect, doing. There is one word for that: mean. Folks, pay this guy no mind. His rant contributes nothing of real value other than to piss off content creators who have more than a clue. The Influencer Economy is alive and well. Thankfully folks like Andy Cush have no real role in it. Stay tuned.
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The Influencer Economy and content are on the decline and teenagers are totally worthless if Gawker's Andy Cush is to be believed. The truth is the reverse. An Influencer is one who takes time to convince others to do a something, or not do a something. In the blog Gawker, Andy Cush uses his obvious hatred for teenage influencers as the basis for a sad, personal, insulting, and completely ridiculous rant and at the end proclaims the Influencer economy dead. But what got me stirred up was his proclamation that "you can't rely on content creators all day long." Ok. So here is a contest creator making content to tell us content can't be relied on? Well, if you consider how wrong his content is, he is right. But he had to make the content for me to react to it, and say it's wrong. So all Andy Cush proved is that content matters. To be sure there are brands who have made mistakes in how they manage a relationship with an influencer, but that blithely ignores the large number of very successful campaigns. Consider one that the social media company Tap Influencer did in 2012. Their Twitter based effort to market the Google Nexus phone managed to hit the Worldwide Twitter Trend. Moreover, the game-show approach actually put phones in the hands of those who used Twitter to answer product-based questions. My bet is they could have sold a few phones too, if that is what the client wanted. Dissing Influencers and content just throws the social media baby out with the bath water and misses an important point: it's how the content is created and what it's designed to do that impacts a brand. Thus, a well SEOed series of videos by A Vlogger can alter a search result that can impact a brand. Want proof? Go to Google as of the date of this blog post and search for 'NFL draft hotel' - make sure your private results are turned off. Then click on videos - 9 of the 10 videos are about one hotel: The Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago. All of the nine were made by me. It was a reward to the hotel for great service to me - I covered the NFL Draft in Chicago in 2015 and 2016. See? Now I have promoted that hotel and for some time or until someone tries to alter the results - and they can only do that with, you guessed it, more content. Content is what an Influencer is paid to produce. The discussion should be on how to get better bang for an Influencer buck and not this whining about teenagers on the part of someone who seems to have. It in for teenagers. Teenagers are two things: young and idealistic. That means they don have all the answers but are eager to find them. The Gawker guy disses them whole cloth for this. He blasts then for not knowing what an Influencer does but wanting to be one. Here is a guy who is a content creator, blasting other wanna be content creators for being too young to know that what they produce can influence someone, rather than teaching them how to do what he is, in effect, doing. There is one word for that: mean. Folks, pay this guy no mind. His rant contributes nothing of real value other than to piss off content creators who have more than a clue. The Influencer Economy is alive and well. Thankfully folks like Andy Cush have no real role in it. Stay tuned.
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