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The Zapier team has published over 2,155 blog posts over the past decade—or, on average, over four blog posts per week, every week, for ten years. Those posts, together, bring in an estimated 900,000+ visitors each month—from US English Google searches alone.

99% of What You Publish Won’t Be Popular

Matthew Guay

News organizations are increasingly moving from being a primary source of information to being a source of validation of already-consumed news. With the presence of multiple media players, one of them is bound to validate your version of the consumed information, making the rest of the organizations seem misguided. Hence the emergence of the post-news world and the general erosion of trust in journalism and journalists across the globe.

Can journalism survive in a post-news world?

niemanlab.org

The point is that the limit order book does not represent the true economic supply and demand for a stock. It just represents the supply and demand for the stock right now, mainly from risk-averse high-frequency electronic market makers. If you want to sell 100,000 shares, you break that up into smaller orders so as not to scare off the market makers, you do it over some period of time, and eventually enough people will want to buy that you’ll be able to sell at a reasonable price.

NYSE Forgot to Open Yesterday

bloomberg.com

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