Comment by vonklaus | Hacker News Reader

Comment by vonklaus | Hacker News Reader

What is interesting to me about this is how quickly this simple image exploded all over the net. I linked a few sites below that all are very similar to this. They have that simple infographic, a link to Kawasaki's page and the well known adage less is more. Image has been circulating since at least march 18th and already appears at ~100 domains. Just found another on entrepreneur.com[4]

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Edit: OP I am sorry if you are a legitimate entity but this image appears on 100 different domains, the article title appears across many as well. I have found the exact fraise on different articles across the web and your account is only 16 days old with 3 comments. I apologize, but I am flagging this, it is a stub article of blogspam and is not the original source (kawasakis site) so I am flagging this.

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edit 2: I unflagged this post[5]

lifehacker[0]

marketingprofs.com[1]

finance.yahoo.com[2]

pinterest.com[3]

[0]http://lifehacker.com/the-10-slides-you-need-to-pitch-your-b...

[1]http://www.marketingprofs.com/chirp/2015/27357/the-only-10-s...

[2]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/only-10-slides-needed-pitching...

[3]https://www.pinterest.com/pin/206110120423126618/

[4]http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244098

[5]still quite skeptical but I would rather let a spammer go free than boot a real user.

Vonklaus, I can assure you it was not my intention to spam anything. I went on Kawasaki's website before posting on HN and could not find any reference of it. Clearly, as you pointed out, I did not check if the same content was already in other sites/articles/blogs. Since it came from Inc.com, which is quite a common source, when posting it on HN I thought it would flag as already posted by somebody else. But it wasn't. Anyway, in the future I will check if any article i would like to post is already too common on the web.

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edit: I unflagged the post.

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Thank you. Let's leave it to the mods to resolve. :)

this is the first time I'm seeing this image so I'm glad it wasn't flagged in the end

Images are inherently viral. They're easier to link to, re-post, retweet, &c., than text. They work on any device and in any browser. They're easy to save. They can be made more pretty than text and (although not necessarily the case here) the "A picture speaks a thousand words" feature means they can communicate ideas/concepts more efficiently.

That's the primary purpose of most infographics these days, linkbacks for search engine juice.

dave would you mind explaining that, I am pretty interested. How do you get linkbacks with an image, and is it effective/ethical?

Some other site posts your image, and includes a link back to the original page on your site as a sort of citation or attribution.

I consider it ethical if there is no consideration involved--money, favors, etc. Interesting content should be able to travel around the Web if people actually find it interesting. The creator getting compensated with a little SEO bump is ok if they actually created something interesting.

That said, HN has a policy (or tendency at least) to prefer the original source and I like that too.

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