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You've weakened the claim a lot. Do you mean competitive with the New York Times, or competitive with The Register?

ghaff 7y ago
The Register is pretty good trade journalism. I doubt your average software dev would get anywhere close to that anytime quickly especially in the absence of existing source networks. Probably closer to whatever write up press releases sources there are.
- iudqnolq 7y ago
  I agree it's pretty good, and that the average software dev couldn't do it. However, I have seen a few of their articles in passing and haven't run into any that involved non-public sources. I just went to their website and all four of the top stories have no information that couldn't be found by googling. For 3/4 I'd seen an article closer to the original source on HN.
  - ghaff 7y ago
    There's very little about trade journalism that involves true scoops.There used to be more but the economics mostly don't support a lot of trawling for unannounced information. Context is still useful. But if you already have the context, the pub may not be that useful.
    - iudqnolq 7y ago
      That makes sense. What makes source networks essential if there aren't any scoops?
      - ghaff 7y ago
        Pretty much what I wrote. Providing context, interpreting what was said, providing additional/opposing data points. Reporting on an announcement still has value if you position it relative to other products/market even if there's no secret information. Bringing in other perspectives.
gpm 7y ago
Huh? No I didn't. The claim was never the New York Times. The register is competitive with the times, they compete for clicks on reddit/google news and so on. I expect the quality to start out more akin to the register (or really, more akin to Wired).
- iudqnolq 7y ago
  I assumed that because you didn't override the parent assumption. The Register may compete with a very narrow section of the times, but I wouldn't call them competitive (and I doubt many others would either). For example, only one of those outlets regularly breaks stories that are reported on in every other outlet and only one of those outlets has our highest politicians regularly read and quote from it.

The Register is pretty good trade journalism. I doubt your average software dev would get anywhere close to that anytime quickly especially in the absence of existing source networks. Probably closer to whatever write up press releases sources there are.

iudqnolq 7y ago
I agree it's pretty good, and that the average software dev couldn't do it. However, I have seen a few of their articles in passing and haven't run into any that involved non-public sources. I just went to their website and all four of the top stories have no information that couldn't be found by googling. For 3/4 I'd seen an article closer to the original source on HN.
- ghaff 7y ago
  There's very little about trade journalism that involves true scoops.There used to be more but the economics mostly don't support a lot of trawling for unannounced information. Context is still useful. But if you already have the context, the pub may not be that useful.
  - iudqnolq 7y ago
    That makes sense. What makes source networks essential if there aren't any scoops?
    - ghaff 7y ago
      Pretty much what I wrote. Providing context, interpreting what was said, providing additional/opposing data points. Reporting on an announcement still has value if you position it relative to other products/market even if there's no secret information. Bringing in other perspectives.

gpm 7y ago

Huh? No I didn't. The claim was never the New York Times. The register is competitive with the times, they compete for clicks on reddit/google news and so on. I expect the quality to start out more akin to the register (or really, more akin to Wired).

iudqnolq 7y ago
I assumed that because you didn't override the parent assumption. The Register may compete with a very narrow section of the times, but I wouldn't call them competitive (and I doubt many others would either). For example, only one of those outlets regularly breaks stories that are reported on in every other outlet and only one of those outlets has our highest politicians regularly read and quote from it.