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This will fail and I'll tell you exactly why. Longish articles are already being TL;DR'd by something, called "attention spans". So as this service gets bette
by KevinMS 16y ago
This will fail and I'll tell you exactly why. Longish articles are already being TL;DR'd by something, called
"attention spans". So as this service gets better and more popular, and I'm not sure exactly how that's possible, the feeds it will be shortening will already be shortening by pressures from editors and audiences.
- raganwald 16y agoI joke about article length and even satirize myself, but speaking candidly, the drive towards link-batish titles and articles that simply summarizes other articles actually encouraged me to write longer pieces, not shorter ones. It's just simple contrarian thinking. There may be a massive market for blink-of-an-eye posts that are forgotten in moments, but there is a small niche of readers who are looking for reading they can savour and dive into. Naturally, the market for blink-of-an-eye reddit front page posts is many orders of magnitude larger, but it also has many orders of magnitude more competition. Niches are smaller but with less competition. The niche for blowhards may have a small readership, but the more the rest of the world goes towards tweets, the hungrier those readers are for that 141st character of exposition. JM2C.