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> Are you judging him on his money capacity so you can justify blocking ads on his page ? I might be mistaken but it looks like it. No, that's to point out tha
by TheRealDunkirk 10y ago
> Are you judging him on his money capacity so you can justify blocking ads on his page ? I might be mistaken but it looks like it.
No, that's to point out that good content doesn't NECESSARILY need an ad-revenue stream to exist. I'm old, and I still aggregate a lot of blogs via RSS. To me, that's still the best content on the internet. Reading those posts in an aggregator removes almost all of the advertising anyway, and certainly all the "bad" adverts.
That reminds me... it was a good article. I should add him to my roll, and see what else he has to say...
- matt4077 10y agoYou can't tell me with a straight face that bloggers could ever offer the depth and width of news that a serious newspaper gets you. Blogs are fine, especially for technical content. Political news needs people present for actual events, it needs investigation: calling around, requesting documents, FOIA requests, sometimes lawsuits with all the costs they involve. Brand names are also useful, as a quick proxy to judge reliability.
- TheRealDunkirk 10y agoIt's been a really bad day for my on HN, with people making strawmen out of my comments, and accusing me of saying things I did not say. That's not even remotely close to what I was saying, and I'm officially done with HN for awhile.