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The part that amuses me is their surprise that Google sees some advantage to transactions. Journalists (of any kind) want to see things in terms of personality
by neilk 14y ago
The part that amuses me is their surprise that Google sees some advantage to transactions.
Journalists (of any kind) want to see things in terms of personality or philosophical conflict, e.g. SQL vs NoSQL. Because it's what their readers understand, and usually, it's all that they understand. They don't seem to consider that people might be making rational choices and difficult tradeoffs.
- seiji 14y agoIf that site contains one journalist, I'll eat my diamond tiara. Let's call them blogophiles instead. Or reposting aggragists. Adveraggrapostsummarizers. "One who reposts content from other sites while attaching ads and providing a veneer of quote-unquote insight."
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- bduerst 14y agoThis is exactly why I think the "News" market is ripe for some disruptive product. The only problem is that sources can send cease and desist letters to any company that effectively steals the sources' viewerbase.
- VonGuard 14y agoI can't really apologize for my brethren in the market, but yes, tech journalism tends to be terrible. The journalism market was already disrupted by Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Blogs in particular are great, because instead of reading what some idiot from journalism school has to say about, oh, I dunno.... uhm.... exceptions versus errors in programming languages (as touched off by that Python vs. Go post), instead of reading some wonk's interpretation, you can instead read a developer's opinion. In the meantime I just wanted to point out that everyone and their mother is making "announcements" about Spanner, and usually trying to make the world think they're better. Mostly this is from NoSQL companies.