Being young doesn't (and shouldn't) give you a pass in life, in any industry. For a HN crowd example: just because you started your first company in high school doesn't mean it's any more or less legitimate than one started by college students. Results and talent should be the measure of success. The article simply points out the 'results' and 'talent' of the Ms. Black...
Techcrunch is going to lose its audience with posts like this over time because they are improperly using a global trend ("Rebecca Black") to attract a local audience (fairly technical/entrepreneurial crowd, or used to be).
One possible technical solution would be for Facebook to launch Facebook Trends, such that you could start cross-sectioning Google Trends by demographic. This would mean blogs could stop going for lowest common denominator stuff and start at least putting together linkbait titles optimized for their intended audience.
[Of course, this only works if the global strategy actually is suboptimal relative to the local audience strategy. Empirical question.]
Rebecca Black is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's another business idea...get kids parents to spend $2000 and then produce their kid's music videos.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Techcrunch is going to lose its audience with posts like this over time because they are improperly using a global trend ("Rebecca Black") to attract a local audience (fairly technical/entrepreneurial crowd, or used to be).
One possible technical solution would be for Facebook to launch Facebook Trends, such that you could start cross-sectioning Google Trends by demographic. This would mean blogs could stop going for lowest common denominator stuff and start at least putting together linkbait titles optimized for their intended audience.
[Of course, this only works if the global strategy actually is suboptimal relative to the local audience strategy. Empirical question.]