As predicted in my recent post Sumser, Davis, Goldberg, Cheesman et al: How Thought Leaders Leave Some of Us All Thunked Out, Jason Goldberg and Jobster has started its subtle colonization of recently acquired Recruiting.com. I was wrong in suggesting that the process would start with innocuous banner ads. The onset of total domination is far more benign than that.
Innocent perhaps, bland certainly, I noticed on the Recruiting.com live feed a one line question under the heading “lunch?” It simply read: “What are lunches like at your company?” To my surprise the link took me to Jobster’s blog and from there to a landing page where I was invited to become another grain of rice on Jason Goldberg’s dinner plate.
While I applaud the use of any means possible to draw attention to one’s fledging online adventures I am bound to ask: why not just put an ad on the sidebar to replace the curiously off-brand cartoon tile-ad? As the publisher presumably Jason Goldberg can run the ad for free. In the trade we call that “fill” or, in VC parlance, a “free lunch”.
I guess all this points to a simple truth: new money has no couth.
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