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"The stuff you care about, all in one place." Except the stuff I care about will never be in just one place. Somehow "more stuff you care about, all in yet ano
by davepeck 16y ago
"The stuff you care about, all in one place."
Except the stuff I care about will never be in just one place. Somehow "more stuff you care about, all in yet another place" doesn't have the same ring to it.
To be clear: I don't mean to knock Flipboard. I'm very impressed with their high quality work, and I'm sure it can be a fun and useful tool. I'm just interested in the broader notion of "all in one place."
My hypothesis is that there will never be "one true venue" for finding news. We're foragers by nature. Our valuation of a piece of content is (in part) proportional to how hard that content was to find. We will always seek new venues for content discovery.
- credo 16y agoYou make very good points. However, I suspect that the app will do very well without users like you and me. I haven't yet tried out the app, but it does seem like they are meeting the needs of a large market (and seem to have impressed a lot of "tech journalists")
- axod 16y agolarge market? or vocal market? Tech journalists like to make out that everyone is sitting in their home tweeting. It's just not the reality though.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoLet's be brutally honest: I do not want to read the work of "everyone". Just the ones who can write well in a language I can read. [1] In this century, when everyone with at least a smidgen of desire can publish to a worldwide audience, and when anyone who doesn't want a worldwide audience has to carefully hide their paper diary lest someone scan it, the assumption that most good contemporary writers can be found on the web is not half bad, and it gets better every day. --- [1] there is, of course, always room for a larger variety of people to take up the art of writing well in English.
- davepeck 16y agoI don't think they're exclusive. One corollary of "we will always seek new venues for content discovery" might be "there will always be opportunity in [interesting] new venues for content discovery." Flipboard, Pulse, etc. represent a fresh new category of venues.