Wall Street Journal Exodus?
Ok, so while the following is a wholly non-scientific analysis, I thought it was interesting enough to comment on:
I am a member of LinkedIn, which is a myspace for yuppies. One of the nice features of the service is that it alerts you when your former colleauges or classmates join the network, so that you can reach out and “link” to them.
I also happen to be a former WSJ employee. Since I left the paper last year, I’ve been keen on staying in touch with my ex-colleagues there, and have used LinkedIn’s service to do so. Typically, I’ll get an alert every few days on my home page telling me that one or two, maybe up to four, WSJers have joind the network since I last logged on–which is typically every few days. This morning, FIFTY WSJers had become members in the last 48 hours.
Is something astir in the henhouse now that a fox has gotten the keys?
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How do you explain that ‘most’ of these people have been listed there for some time?
hey, i did have a disclaimer at the very beginning of the post. but if you’re implying that somehow old members are recycled as new and that’s why they showed up on my home page this morning, I have to take issue. first, I’ve had formers colleagues tell me that they were going to join, and sure enough, a day or so later, their name would come up in my “new since last login” list. Second, the names I saw this morning I had never seen in any WSJ-tagged search I made on the site in prior months.