Officers in Japan are evaluated on the basis of how many of their crimes are solved. Seemingly apparent murders that don't have strong leads aren't investigated as such - they're reclassified into categories like suicide or accidental death.
And doesn't Japan have an unusually high suicide rate (on paper)? Speaking as a library worker who used to spend plenty of time digging in such statistics...
"We understand you'd like to delete your account. If you delete your account all of your information including your comments, messages, posts, and friends and followers associations will be removed from our system. Please consider the following options before clicking delete."
Hrm, that one loads fine... but fulltextrssfeed.com/www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/blogs/sfgate/offtherecord/index_rss2.xml fails with "unable to retrieve full-text content" and fulltextrssfeed.com/www.kqed.org/rss/arts.xml fails with "Unable to parse this page for content."
I have a lot of experience with fetching and parsing feeds and pages, so I'm not trivializing the problem, just observing issues I'm seeing with this solution.
It depends what you're doing. Press releases can be a handy tool if you're actually announcing news, not that some previously unknown startup by a relatively unknown team has come into existence.
You should pursue coverage as soon as your startup is ready for people to start using it and then at regular intervals thereafter as you add compelling features or have otherwise marketable milestones.
I agree. The Press Release is somewhat effective, but is becoming very overused. You are better off building a good followers on Twitter and providing your information through that channel. They will generally be more interested in what you have to say.
http://www.ridesurfboard.com was posted on here the other day in an ask hn. Seems like this "niche" is starting to already get crowded by a bunch of people scrambling to get a piece of the Flipboard pie.
If you're a valued part of their team your boss(es) are unlikely to be as excited about your new adventure as you are.
Fine to say you're leaving to pursue your own thing, but it's not the time to be offering anything other than help in finding or training a replacement and making the transition easy on them so they look back at you in the most favorable light when you do approach them down the road.
Quora's value comes from the quality of the people on it. There is very little that's exciting about them except the people they've been able to attract initially.
As the site grows, the density of interesting people will drop and the noise will increase, getting worse the more mainstream it gets. Eventually it will be a slow Yahoo answers.
