Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:18:34 -0000,
> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2007-10-17, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Sorry about the recent potsing volume. I'm catching up with last week's news as
>>> well (plenty of great progress for Linux!), so there's a little more to pass
>>> on. :-)
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>> Have you considered going for more quality, rather than more quantity?
>> Several times, you've posted "news" concerning things that I've been
>> involved in, where I have access to non-public information, and your
>> accuracy has been very poor in these cases. Wouldn't it be better to
>> post, say, 10 *accurate* news items a week, instead of 100 items of
>> which 90% are questionable?
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>> A lot of your items fall victim to what I call the blog effect. What
>> happens is that *one* blog posts a bit of speculation, or otherwise
>> posts something that turns out not to be accurate. Other bloggers read
>> it, and some post about it. Others read those, and some of those blog,
>> and so on. Once you get past the first level, you start losing some of
>> the paths back to the original. So you end up with blogs repeating the
>> original item, saying that they got it from several blogs, and that
>> gives the impression that there are independent sources for the
>> item--but it all goes back to one, unverified, source.
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>> And nowadays, all the major tech news outlets ALSO have blogs, so people
>> read something on a CNET or Wired blog, say, and then when they blog
>> about it, they say "CNET is reporting that...", and this adds further
>> credibility in the mind of subsequent readers--they think the blogger is
>> reporting on a news story from CNET, not on a random CNET blog entry.
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> Agreed, I'd far prefer a well selected smaller volume, as it is, I just
> ignore all the [NEWS] posts unless someone I have scored up replies to
> one. I don't have time to wade through them myself.
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Timmy doesn't like the idea that someone other than Microsoft might be
causing discussion to take place, might be assisting in forming opinion,
might be affecting societal views on things...
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