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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:18:34 -0000,
Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2007-10-17, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Sorry about the recent potsing volume. I'm catching up with last week's news as
>> well (plenty of great progress for Linux!), so there's a little more to pass
>> on. :-)
>
> Have you considered going for more quality, rather than more quantity?
> Several times, you've posted "news" concerning things that I've been
> involved in, where I have access to non-public information, and your
> accuracy has been very poor in these cases. Wouldn't it be better to
> post, say, 10 *accurate* news items a week, instead of 100 items of
> which 90% are questionable?
>
> A lot of your items fall victim to what I call the blog effect. What
> happens is that *one* blog posts a bit of speculation, or otherwise
> posts something that turns out not to be accurate. Other bloggers read
> it, and some post about it. Others read those, and some of those blog,
> and so on. Once you get past the first level, you start losing some of
> the paths back to the original. So you end up with blogs repeating the
> original item, saying that they got it from several blogs, and that
> gives the impression that there are independent sources for the
> item--but it all goes back to one, unverified, source.
>
> And nowadays, all the major tech news outlets ALSO have blogs, so people
> read something on a CNET or Wired blog, say, and then when they blog
> about it, they say "CNET is reporting that...", and this adds further
> credibility in the mind of subsequent readers--they think the blogger is
> reporting on a news story from CNET, not on a random CNET blog entry.
Agreed, I'd far prefer a well selected smaller volume, as it is, I just
ignore all the [NEWS] posts unless someone I have scored up replies to
one. I don't have time to wade through them myself.
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