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I can't help but enjoy watching this guy operate. He's an odd combo of smart, aggressive, shameless, and transparent. Seems to me he realized eHow is an unstop

• neworbit 16y ago
  Jason Calacanis and Tim Ferris are the two most polarizing dudes here on HN as far as I can tell. But love 'em or hate 'em, they do both get lots of press.
  • ojbyrne 16y ago
    It seems likely that "get lots of press" is dependent on "polarizing." Personally I'd vote for Calacanis having more substance then Ferris.
    • davidw 16y ago
      "The 4 hour content farm", coming soon!
      • neworbit 16y ago
        Heck, that's no stretch at all, 4HWW was all about outsourcing your research and production. Saying "now apply that to web page generation" is a one sentence book.
• jasonmcalacanis 16y ago
  I hate politics... I'm a writer and brand builder. You are correct that our only option against ehow making hundreds of thousands of low-quality pages a month is to point out vocally that our higher-quality pages and videos are outranked in search engines. This is a risky strategy because any time we screw up--and obviously that will happen--we will get attacked brutally.... and we should! My instructions to my team is to make a page better than the top three in Google and bing. IF we don't beet them in the search rankings we will bang a drum until someone listens!!! It is going to be fun to see if this works.