{"id":442,"date":"2004-11-30T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T18:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-04-18T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T18:46:13","slug":"imdb-yotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/11\/30\/imdb-yotch\/","title":{"rendered":"IMDb-yotch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I began a new era of employment with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDb.com<\/a>,                 billed as &#8220;Earth&#8217;s Biggest Movie Database&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-443\" title=\"imdblogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/imdblogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My job is to redesign it &#8212; it&#8217;s millions                 of pages, with no real style guide, and I&#8217;m excited to be working                 there. It&#8217;s a small, 120-person company wrapped up in a large,                 10,000 person company (Amazon). Friends and strangers alike who                 are passionate about the site say the same thing, &#8220;We love                 it and use it all the time &#8212; don&#8217;t fuck it up too much.&#8221; So                 there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\" align=\"left\">The first day began at 8am with a                 conference call to the office here in Seattle, with a bridge                 set up to connect offices in Bristol, UK and Berlin, Germany.                 My introductory email was all about top ten lists (films, TV),                 and that seems to change monthly. The top three films don&#8217;t,                 though: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078841\/\" target=\"_blank\">1)                 Being There<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073312\/\" target=\"_blank\">2)                 Love and Death<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057012\/\" target=\"_blank\">3)                 Dr. Strangelove<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/11\/30\/imdb-yotch\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I began a new era of employment with IMDb.com, billed as &#8220;Earth&#8217;s Biggest Movie Database&#8221;. My job is to redesign it &#8212; it&#8217;s millions of pages, with no real style guide, and I&#8217;m excited to be working there. It&#8217;s a small, 120-person company wrapped up in a large, 10,000 person company (Amazon). Friends and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/11\/30\/imdb-yotch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IMDb-yotch!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/11\/30\/imdb-yotch\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}