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Posted in Site News at 12:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Another one bites the dust:
> Image: National Geographic Lays Off Its Last Remaining Staff Writers: Report
> Image: National Geographic Channel latest casualty of attack on the media
Summary: The media online and offline is dying; rather than try to link to what’s left of it we’ll attempt to contribute with more original articles of our own
We’re fast approaching our 37,000th blog post (36,846 so far) and now, with text-only bulletins, IPFS, IRC and Gemini (to name the main alternatives to HTML and HTTP/S), we’re flourishing. So far this month we’ve served over 400,000 pages (or requests) over Gemini and over HTTP/S we serve about 2 MB per second, on average. In IPFS we’re clocking about 40 GB per day and IRC is always busy, all day long…
> “It seems like everything gets incinerated and the main product of so-called ‘news’ sites is misinformation and propaganda. Deceiving you is their business model.”
I left my nighttime job after nearly 12 years. It was a full-time job. When I left my job I wrote about it and then I started spending time developing some new tools for reading and curating the news. Techrights has done Daily Links for over 15 years already. The problem isn’t so much that it is time-consuming but that the signal-to-noise (s/n) ratio in news sites became truly awful. People who assess many news sites all day long can see that the reporting became “he says, she says” (journalism should check what’s actually true and report facts, not low-cost parroting of high-profile people) and a lot isn’t original. Instead of independent investigations we now have sites citing another site or even “tweets” (hearsay as “sources”).
News on the World Wide Web is (to put it quite bluntly) not sustainable. Rupert Murdoch (et al) has just officially killed National Geographic too. It seems like everything gets incinerated and the main product of so-called ‘news’ sites is misinformation and propaganda. Deceiving you is their business model.
> “News on the World Wide Web is (to put it quite bluntly) not sustainable.”
We thus need more rebuttals, not more linking to sites. We need to respond to toxic, corrupt institutions that flood the Web with disinformation, hatchet jobs etc. They seed what’s left of the Web with malicious “content” that they deem “benign” (to them, self-serving propaganda is even commendable).
As we recently noted, we’re going to take things up a notch, aiming at ~4,000 blog posts per year. In order to do this we need to pick up the pace and spend less time on Daily Links. We’ve been told that an overview of upcoming topics will help, e.g. work in progress, so here’s a rough outline of topics we specialise in and are eager to focus on:
More articles on GLA, City of London etc. in relation to crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’. We’ll show just how high the cover-up goes.
More coverage of EPO corruption, which is now closely connected to the EU and EC. The very existence of the Unified Patent Court is a crime and the main criminals issue threats against their critics, just like in some country like Congo. Has Belgium (Brussels) become Congo?
As noted in an article yesterday, there’s a series about the Linux Foundation (LF) starting in July. We’re waiting until July for reasons we’ll explain soon.
Some articles regarding the GPL and RHEL, IBM’s Red Bait.
There are of course many other topics, which will come up upon “demand” (if they arise all of a sudden and merit a response). We try to cover only topics that we understand very well. In 2006 it was Novell, but the company ceased to exist over a decade ago, back when there was still some debate and little media coverage about software patents (that unfortunately stopped years ago).
> “We try to cover only topics that we understand very well.”
We sadly missed the opportunity (except in editorial comments in Daily Links) to respond to Microsoft’s latest FUD attack on Linux (it started nearly a week ago). We saw over half a dozen articles to that effect. In retrospect, this response was insufficient. █
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