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marksonland.com is a personal blog at marksonland.com about startups and business. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Google Likes To Steal Others' Thunder ”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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43mentions?
11HN people?
2008–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 24 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers cite this blog for a critique of Google borrowing others' PR efforts, and for an entrepreneurship post arguing that when things go wrong, it is the founder's own responsibility.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Google Likes To Steal Others' Thunder
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-30
  2. Note to Entrpreneur's: It's Your Fault
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. I was not referring to the media coverage. I was referring to Google's practice of piggybacking on others' PR efforts - http://www.marksonland.com/2009/04/google_likes_to_steal_oth... . In Wolfram's case they did it twice in rapid succession. That is what's interesting.

    Comment linking /2009/04/google_likes_to_steal_others_t.html

    on “Google Squared”
  2. Submitted My Web is Text Based as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  3. graeme · 2012-11-19Recommends
    There is a good article, linked within, about how as an entrepreneur, of things go wrong, it's your fault. I'd say that's valuable advice for humans, not just entrepreneurs. This belief is useful not because it true , but because acting as of it's true offers you the best chance of changing what you can change. http://www.marksonland.com/2010/03/note_to_entrpreneurs_its_...

    Comment linking /2010/03/note_to_entrpreneurs_its_your_1.html

    on “Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites (2010)”
  4. Submitted Google Likes To Steal Others' Thunder as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Twitter Ain't Search as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Should You Monetize Your Site With Ads On Launch Day? as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why Content Farms Thrive (Marksonland) as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Yahoo is the Online Version of the Paper Box Manufacturer (Marksonland) as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Building a Brand Takes Balls as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Note to Entrpreneur's: It's Your Fault as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Digg: I'm Actually Kind of Impressed as a story · 6 points

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  12. Submitted Why Search? Of Course Search. as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Congrats to Hyman Roth/ Digg (Marksonland) as a story · 4 points

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  14. Submitted 7 people you hope you don't meet at your start-up as a story · 4 points

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  15. Submitted Will Users Score at the Bing? as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted Marshall Simmonds or Tina Brown? as a story · 3 points

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  17. Submitted Why A VC Would Abandon the Web as a story · 3 points

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  18. Submitted The Tin Handcuffs of SEO as a story · 3 points

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  19. Submitted Adios Y Publisher Network, We Never Missed You as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted 5 Rules for How Start-Ups Should Work With Consultants as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted A Wonderful Life? Predatory Lending in Bedford Falls as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Newspapers: Time for a Hail Mary Pass as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted The Law of Unintended Web-Site Use as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Search Me: A Hit on the iPhone as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted Cuill Launches Next Week? as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted Yahoo's Incomprehensible Mission Statement as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted Start-Up Rule #2: When Pitching, Bring Your Guy as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted FB Search and Systemic Distribution as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Get Ready to Slash the Web (Marksonland) as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Building Your Own Personal Pitch Deck as a story · 1 points

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