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The internet has also lowered the barrier to finding high-quality, timely content. The best information I got regarding Libya and Fukishima, I found because it
by lotharbot 15y ago
The internet has also lowered the barrier to finding high-quality, timely content. The best information I got regarding Libya and Fukishima, I found because it made the frontpage of Hacker News. I don't need to pay an information curator/gatekeeper because the upvotes are doing a pretty nice job of that already.
That said, when my income is a little more steady I expect to subscribe to Stratfor [0], because they offer a depth of content that's hard to find elsewhere. There are viable free alternatives to a lot of content on the web, but I haven't yet found one for that particular set of content.
[0] http://www.stratfor.com/ http://www.stratfor.com/ - strategic forecasting
- Fluxx 15y agoThis is a huge point that I think is often overlooked. Not only is it cheaper to write and distribute content to the entire world, it's also cheaper and easier to curate all that content and offer a page full of links to it. Newspapers/reporters also served that function as well - going through all the news of the day to find the most interesting and relevant things to report on.