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One of the best articles I've read on this topic is here: https://next.ft.com/content/009050e4-75ea-11e2-9891-00144feabdc0 https://next.ft.com/content/009050e4-
by welanes 10y ago
One of the best articles I've read on this topic is here: https://next.ft.com/content/009050e4-75ea-11e2-9891-00144feabdc0 https://next.ft.com/content/009050e4-75ea-11e2-9891-00144fea...
"we overvalue new writing, almost absurdly so, and we undervalue older writing. I feel this market failure keenly each day when I recommend a fine piece of writing that deserves to be read for years to come and yet will have at most two days in the sun.
You never hear anybody say, “I’m not going to listen to that record because it was released last year,” or, “I’m not going to watch that film because it came out last month.” Why are we so much less interested in journalism that’s a month or a year old?"
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Hacker sidenote: surely there's a market for an app that combines your read-later lists, a gentle timer like that in the headspace meditation app, and duolingo-like gamification.
Someone ought to build it.
- heisenbit 10y agoA much deeper discussion in that article - thanks. However you really should warn others that your link is going to old 2013 content and may have been super-seeded by newer blog, twitter or snap-chat posts ;-)
- Anthony-G 10y agoFYI: You presumably meant to write “superseded”. I spent more than a few seconds wondering how the verb, “to seed” would make sense in this context before figuring it out. :)
- roymurdock 10y agoThis is a great article, thanks for sharing. For me, this is the crux: You can call up a year-old piece as easily as you can call up a day-old piece. And yet we hardly ever do so, because we are so hardly ever prompted to do so. HN does a decent job of getting old stuff reposted and discussed on the front page, but the internet's main curation process (Google/major media sites) inhibits the discovery of old material. Walk into a library and you're immediately surrounded by old texts ripe for the browsing if you want to walk up and pick on off the shelf.
- miguelrochefort 10y agoI can feel it already: "Show HN: Chrome extension that randomly inserts read-later links from Pocket into the HN front page."
- VLM 10y agoGenerally I don't watch the nightly network news. Experimentally I've tuned in. It lives in a parallel universe, very weakly connected to reality. One has to invest many hours in its fictional narrative to make any sense of it, much like you don't tune into episode 50 of a pop culture TV show and understand any of it. You're no better educated given one episode of the nightly news than you are when given one episode of "breaking bad". In that way one isolated pop culture clickbait artifact from a year or decade ago is useless. I need a package of ten, maybe a hundred hours worth of content to make any sense of the pop culture references and the self references. From the front page of Reuters right now, clickbait era journalism that makes no sense without extensive background: Texas 'affluenza' mom has curfew eased Fiat Chrysler to investigate crash that killed 'Star Trek' actor Wall St. rally holds steady as Brexit chances weaken Myanmar's Suu Kyi reiterates stance on not using term 'Rohingya' VLMs rule, clickbait expands until the content is indistinguishable from noise, without extensive experience and training.
- tunap 10y agoIf you think that's bad, do not read USA Today. It reads like the target audience is the 5th grader bracket... only more naive & gullible.
- theseatoms 10y agoFwiw, I just copied that link into my 'bookmarks' Evernote note. :)