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No, good prose still exists but you have to pay for it. You are just overwhelmed by free low quality content.
by pjerem 3y ago
No, good prose still exists but you have to pay for it.
You are just overwhelmed by free low quality content.
- OJFord 3y agoThis is a blog though, it's written like a (a often paid, yes) newspaper or something article, sure, but it isn't, afaict this is some guy's blog. I agree with GP, it's a rare treat to be treated as an adult by such things, and I don't think it's anything to do with free, it's just the style of 'informal'.
- lproven 3y ago[Author submitter here] > This is a blog though You are both right and totally wrong. Mostly wrong. > it's written like a (a often paid, yes) newspaper or something article It's written like a magazine article because it is an article that the magazine paid me to write in 2000, and I just found it by accident and put it on my blog. So it is my blog but that's pro work that has been edited. > but it isn't, Wrong. > afaict this is some guy's blog. Then you can't tell very well. Sorry, but you can't. This is the magazine: https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PCW%20200009%20September%20Created%20From%20PCW%20Cover%20CD/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PC... I wrote the original article, 23Y ago, and I wrote the blog post too, and I am writing this. These days I write for the Register and you can read my stuff every day there: https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven