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Bloggers Running Out of Things to Say Take a Vacation

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Over the past couple weeks it has become relatively apparent that there isn’t much news on the web. Why is that? Well in contrast to last year when the Facebook platform pushed us through the summer, this year it’s business as usual which means not much news. Typically ... Continue reading »

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Mark Drapeau
11 months ago

The tone of this piece seems to be that less news and more analysis is 'bad' or that analysis is 'less than' news.

I contend that most news is not particularly interesting per article, and many read like short press releases of web 1.0

However, a high quality and perhaps also entertaining analyst is hard to find.

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11 months ago

that is the good thing about the niche i cover. news or post material now never runs out. when i started at Widgets Lab a year ago, i had to hunt down widget news or things to post. now there is a never ending amount of the stuff..

so depends on the niche.

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