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I think one of the main problems with celebrity/current events stories is that one article will rarely contain a good, complete overview. Weeks/Months/Years lat
by jokermatt999 16y ago
I think one of the main problems with celebrity/current events stories is that one article will rarely contain a good, complete overview. Weeks/Months/Years later, there will be great, in depth, interesting articles that cover all the fascinating aspects of a story, but the day to day news and blogs on a subject are more prone to shallow analysis of one aspect of a situation.
For example, the whole Wikileaks/Assange situation has many aspects that would be interesting to hackers: IT security failures, a paradigm shift in how effectively governments are able to keep things secret, calls for Internet censorship, small groups of people/hackers/script-kiddies DDoSing major credit cards in an example of asymmetric warfare, transparency vs secrecy, and (to some extent, but less so) the contents of the cables themselves. However, because these are being revealed over a course of weeks, HN instead gets flooded with dozens of articles about small facets of this event, rather than a larger and more in depth analysis.
Does this make sense to anyone else, or am I completely off target here?