You're Hired.

News Type: Other — Mon May 14, 2007 7:18 PM EDT

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The Donald

Our two intern applicants. Though we liked the other fella's color, we chose Rob.

We'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the first Newsvine user to be hired by the company, Rob Goodlatte.

Goodlatte has been a Newsvine member since the alpha testing phase, and is joining us over the summer as an intern. It always helps to have a pair of outside eyes around the office, to offer perspective as a user. We look forward to having Rob around the office for the next several months. Please help us give him a warm welcome as the first Newsvine user-turned-staff.

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Sean Balsiger

Shoot, for a minute I thought I had been hired by Newsvine.

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19 votes

#1 - Mon May 14, 2007 7:35 PM EDT

{"commentId":707510,"authorDomain":"scooterdman"}

ScooterDMan

Yea, and I'm TIME's Person of the Year...

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17 votes

#1.1 - Mon May 14, 2007 8:24 PM EDT

{"commentId":707524,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

Mykola Bilokonsky

Damn, you guys successfully stole Immediate Mental Reactions #1 and #2. I don't have a #3. Curse you both.

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15 votes

#1.2 - Mon May 14, 2007 8:34 PM EDT

{"commentId":707576,"authorDomain":"noah"}

Noah BradleyDeleted

{"commentId":707585,"authorDomain":"vikibabbles"}

Viki Babbles Gonia

Congratulations, Rob!

Can we Newsviners assign Rob some tasks?

1. 90 second comment edit.

Um, yeah. That's it for me.

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19 votes

#2 - Mon May 14, 2007 9:25 PM EDT

{"commentId":707647,"authorDomain":"farmer"}

oldfogey

Just dawned on me. I once had a green Hyundai that I really loved. I named it the Green Weenie. Makes me wonder. I just love the Newsvine Staff. Could we call the Newsvine Staffers "Green Weenies"?

Welcome, Rob, have a nice summer, fix the spell check if you can.

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13 votes

#3 - Mon May 14, 2007 10:22 PM EDT

{"commentId":707692,"authorDomain":"tom"}

tom

Could we call the Newsvine Staffers "Green Weenies"?

Negative.

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14 votes

#3.1 - Mon May 14, 2007 10:46 PM EDT

{"commentId":707755,"authorDomain":"vikibabbles"}

Viki Babbles Gonia

How about:

The Green Machine

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7 votes

#3.2 - Mon May 14, 2007 11:27 PM EDT

{"commentId":1301820,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}

Tedd Riggs

Whoa cool Rob ! Congrat's ! you came to the right town to make Good-latte's :-)

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1 vote

#3.3 - Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:41 PM EST

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Tedd Riggs

The Green Machine

If I remember correctly, the AMC Gremlin first came out in green....

AMC Gremlin Green ?

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2 votes

#3.4 - Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:43 PM EST

{"commentId":707687,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}

lauhal

Congratulations!!!!!! Very cool.

Job #1 - You must tell the staff that if they ever have hair like Donald's...they're fired. :)

Job #2 - Have fun, but not too much!

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5 votes

#4 - Mon May 14, 2007 10:43 PM EDT

{"commentId":707732,"authorDomain":"aine"}

Aine MacDermot

Job #3 - You're the designated Toaster Strudel guy and must bring in fresh supplies every Monday morning. Tom will gratefully take possession (since he's the guy with the toaster on his desk!)

Congratulations, Rob.

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8 votes

#4.1 - Mon May 14, 2007 11:10 PM EDT

{"commentId":707797,"authorDomain":"rsg"}

Rob Goodlatte

Shhh! Don't tell them about the toaster strudels—I've been keeping them all for myself!

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10 votes

#4.2 - Tue May 15, 2007 12:05 AM EDT

{"commentId":708185,"authorDomain":"acidreflux"}

AdipicAcid

It always helps to have a pair of outside eyes around the office, to ~~offer perspective as a user~~ fetch us coffee and pizza and pick up our dry cleaning.

I keed. Congrats!

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3 votes

#4.3 - Tue May 15, 2007 8:27 AM EDT

{"commentId":1301807,"authorDomain":"christinedagoo"}

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{"commentId":707752,"authorDomain":"brianford"}

Brian Ford

That's cool and all -- but I'm going to have to ask that he stop getting into senseless fights, now that he's a respected employee.

Other than that -- congrats!

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5 votes

#5 - Mon May 14, 2007 11:23 PM EDT

{"commentId":708546,"authorDomain":"tang"}

Calvin Tang

Yeah, I wondered how many flame wars he's been at the root of, when we flipped the switch and turned his comments green. :)

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6 votes

#5.1 - Tue May 15, 2007 11:22 AM EDT

{"commentId":712716,"authorDomain":"stevenwandrews"}

Steve Andrews

Don't listen to Brian, Rob, Senseless fights are 53.434% why newsvine is fun! Congrats man.

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3 votes

#5.2 - Wed May 16, 2007 7:29 PM EDT

{"commentId":707825,"authorDomain":"vikibabbles"}

Viki Babbles Gonia

Hey! My pop up blocker just beeped and it was an ad from ad.doubleclick.net. What's up with that?

{"commentId":707825,"threadId":"103401","contentId":"719015","authorDomain":"vikibabbles"}

3 votes

#6 - Tue May 15, 2007 12:23 AM EDT

{"commentId":707881,"authorDomain":"spiffie"}

spiffie

Spyware.

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3 votes

#6.1 - Tue May 15, 2007 1:22 AM EDT

{"commentId":719130,"authorDomain":"mark"}

mark

Rob, fix that.

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5 votes

#6.2 - Sat May 19, 2007 1:09 PM EDT

{"commentId":708043,"authorDomain":"indelible"}

indelible inc.

Congratulations man, I have no idea if you earned it...but for the sake of Vinemanity, I'll assume so.

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5 votes

#7 - Tue May 15, 2007 6:25 AM EDT

{"commentId":708439,"authorDomain":"silkmesh"}

Babel Fish

The Babel Fish puffed up his gills, his face went orange, a bright red light at the top of his gills illuminated the dull grey office, He open his mouth and said "Who's the Green Chick? , oh hrmm Yes, Going to the other side huh, best wishes" The Fish took a sip of Goop and then went to sleep

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4 votes

#8 - Tue May 15, 2007 10:40 AM EDT

{"commentId":708644,"authorDomain":"Ardith"}

ArdithDeleted

{"commentId":708900,"authorDomain":"zacharybuckler"}

Zachary Buckler

Alright Robbie! Congratulations!

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2 votes

#10 - Tue May 15, 2007 1:20 PM EDT

{"commentId":709584,"authorDomain":"chill888"}

chill

congrats

do you get paid, or is having green comments compensation enough?

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8 votes

#11 - Tue May 15, 2007 5:07 PM EDT

{"commentId":710436,"authorDomain":"mike"}

Mike D.

He is actually paying us for the privilege of having his comments green. Hmmm, I wonder if we should auction that capability off...

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8 votes

#11.1 - Tue May 15, 2007 11:24 PM EDT

{"commentId":710444,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

Mykola Bilokonsky

I'll give you my March earnings! :-P

Mike, how come December earnings were so high and nothing has really hit that mark since?

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4 votes

#11.2 - Tue May 15, 2007 11:29 PM EDT

{"commentId":710527,"authorDomain":"rsg"}

Rob Goodlatte

Yep—I'm rollin' in the green over here...

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7 votes

#11.3 - Wed May 16, 2007 12:04 AM EDT

{"commentId":710577,"authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}

Adam Hobson

Myk, Christmas bonus ;-)

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3 votes

#11.4 - Wed May 16, 2007 12:39 AM EDT

{"commentId":711457,"authorDomain":"mike"}

Mike D.

Mykola: We've found that overall traffic to Newsvine and overall monthly revenue don't track together at all (unfortunately). The great myth about advertising on the web is that you just build up a bunch of traffic, throw up some ads and you're always sold out of inventory. The reality is that ad campaigns take some effort to sell. When FM has a good selling month (like December), our sell through rate is great. Other months, sell-through can be under 50%... with the excess inventory being filled up by ads that don't bring in a ton of revenue at all. The same thing happens on Digg, ESPN, and just about every other site on the internet (that's why when you go to Digg, you see Google ads so often... it represents unsold inventory). December was a big advertising month for the entire industry, being holiday season and all, but we're getting back up to those levels now.

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13 votes

#11.5 - Wed May 16, 2007 12:13 PM EDT

{"commentId":712473,"authorDomain":"noah"}

Noah BradleyDeleted

{"commentId":711566,"authorDomain":"celestina"}

Celestina

Congrats, Rob!

Now, my task for you is to start finding jobs for the rest of us. Thanks.

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4 votes

#12 - Wed May 16, 2007 12:42 PM EDT

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Daniel A. HalloDeleted

{"commentId":713407,"authorDomain":"tamh"}

Tamh

Hello Rob! Yay!! Bravo and congatulations to you :)
Although we have had little or no interaction on Newsvine, I send my best wishes for a great Summer internship your way. Have fun!

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1 vote

#14 - Thu May 17, 2007 4:54 AM EDT

{"commentId":716809,"authorDomain":"sdquinn"}

Sean D. Quinn

Congratulations, Rob!

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2 votes

#15 - Fri May 18, 2007 12:03 PM EDT

{"commentId":720437,"authorDomain":"attreau"}

Andrea A

Congrat's Rob, when your done fixing the vine, My washer needs fixing!!

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3 votes

#16 - Sun May 20, 2007 11:37 AM EDT

{"commentId":720446,"authorDomain":"spiffie"}

spiffie

Newsvine does not fix household appliances or wash windows. I think it's in the user agreement somewhere.

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6 votes

#16.1 - Sun May 20, 2007 11:40 AM EDT

{"commentId":1164130,"authorDomain":"kata"}

NcBukongo

Congratulation! Don't forget the contenders.

{"commentId":1164130,"threadId":"103401","contentId":"719015","authorDomain":"kata"}

1 vote

#17 - Wed Nov 7, 2007 2:38 AM EST

{"commentId":1202109,"authorDomain":"lisaxian"}

lisaxian

The Green Gopher?

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1 vote

#18 - Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:30 PM EST

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christinedagooDeleted

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christinedagooDeleted

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christinedagooDeleted

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r2rprofitsDeleted

{"commentId":1507188,"authorDomain":"hearditthroughthegrape"}

grape

Great story..

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1 vote

#23 - Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:47 PM EST

{"commentId":1507270,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}

Jimster

Lots o'deletions. Weird for a thread like this.

Well anyway, welcome Rob, have fun.

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2 votes

#24 - Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:06 PM EST

{"commentId":1507308,"authorDomain":"spiffie"}

spiffie

When a user deletes is account (or has his account deleted) by default all comments from that user show up as deleted. (Not sure why that is, but it's a consistent behavior.)

{"commentId":1507308,"threadId":"103401","contentId":"719015","authorDomain":"spiffie"}

2 votes

#24.1 - Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:14 PM EST

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