The World Bank Spent $93 Million On Content That Nobody Read



I know I'm not the only one looking for a php/perl/python script/library for PDF to HTML at the moment... God damn you faggots...

$93 million worth of free content -> WordAi -> ??? -> Profit...

I'm just saying, I'm know I'm not the only one looking, cause the search volume just increased...​
 
This is fucking great:

http://priceonomics.com/the-worst-waiter-in-history/

Joe Franco recalls his first visit to Sam Wo in 1981 and, consequently, his first Edsel experience. “Sit down and shut up!” he was told upon entering. When he made the grave mistake of attempting to order sweet-and-sour pork and a diet coke, Edsel was not pleased:
"You [stupid]? No coke!! Tea Only!! No sweet and sour!! You see on menu?!! You get house special chow fun...No fork, chopstick only...What you want, fat man?"
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Unless you were a VIP, your meal would be over the second your spoon hit the bottom of the bowl: Edsel would come by with a broom and literally sweep you out. Only one diner -- who bought him a “weekly ration of free X-rated movie passes” -- was permitted to enjoy a post-meal cup of “Edsel’s Special Tea” (pure ginseng extract). When another customer saw the drink and curiously inquired about it, he was kicked out. This wasn’t unusual: often, Edsel would forcibly remove seated patrons in the middle of a meal, “just to remind them who was running the show.”
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Edsel was also known for his crass “flirtation:” an entire wall at Sam Wo was dedicated to Polaroid photos of the waiter in various degrees of groping unsuspecting young females. “A charming first date destination if you never want to see your date again,” wrote one reviewer in the late 70s. “My ex-wife ended up on the wall. The groping part was the only time I ever saw Edsel smile. She was not amused.” (The pictures we’ve included in this article confirm Edsel's perennial smile in the presence of ladies -- we don't condone his behavior.)
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Pheasant said:
I think a lot of people here can relate to buying content that nobody will ever read.
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The guys at Pricenomics have released a book.

I know people are always talking about collecting your blog posts and publishing them as an e-book or hard copy, so this might be interesting.

26 Reviews in the first 10 hours, and it's on the hot list for business & money.
 
Websites use PDF despite its weaknesses because it supports ease of posting, even as it denies ease of use.

Do you know a better alternative to PDF? Opening a word document is worse since it's even slower than PDF and most people don't have Word installed or the correct version. A 5000 word txt document is even worse. If PDFs are too hard for you, you suck at life.
 
As you will know, at work, we sit on enormous content holdings.

The file format debate is waged about every 2 years - ebook readers, tablets, smartphones adding fuel to the fire.

Sad as it is, but PDF remains the only downloadable file format apart from .txt that is universally supported.

Poorly supported? yes, more often than not, it sucks

But there simply is no alternative at the moment.
Ebook readers -

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PS: I would think the problem lies in the presentation / findability of the content. Our PDFs are downloaded like crazy.
 
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