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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 0e87758..3925425 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -8,13 +8,74 @@ #+HUGO_SECTION: blog -* 2024 [69/70] :@blog: +* 2024 [70/71] :@blog: :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image_dir "blog/images" :image_max_width 600 :EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: image yt :END: +** DONE We have failed computer journalism +CLOSED: [2024-09-23 Mon 22:45] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: internet-and-press +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract Third site moved to my flat +:END: + +As a kid, I loved reading computer related press. +Be it gaming titles (/Secret Service/, /Gambler/, /Gry Komputerowe/, or /Świat Gier Komputerowych/), or general computing ones (/PC World/ or /Chip/) it was a monthly feast. +Those have since either died or moved to the interwebs. +It was clear that they were doomed, as who would move to cyberspace faster than people, who were already living in the digital world? +The thing that was not clear, was that those which simply closed were the lucky ones. + +#+attr_shortcode: :file ss-31.jpg +#+attr_shortcode: :alt Cover of a polish gaming magazine in red +#+attr_shortcode: :class pull-right +#+attr_shortcode: :forced_width 200 +#+attr_shortcode: :source https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/141263/secret-service-32-luty-1996 +#+begin_image +with anime! +#+end_image +There was this hidden difference. +The reader has different expectation when he spends his entire allowance for 100–200 pages of texts, compared to when simply opening a website. +We had long, insightful (and sometimes wrong) texts which took time, now we have crap but fast. +It's not the publisher's fault, there are not many people left who would read an approximation of a 5-page analysis of the latest printer offering from HP. +That's not how you make a business any more. +You make it by being /fast/. +And boy are we fast now. +Review within minutes of release are not uncommon. + +But there is another part of this equation. +The business became dull. +Remember when there were /multiple/ GPU vendors? +Not producers of cards based on AMD and Nvidia, but an actual market of multiple players? +Remember when you could get excited by an amazing scanner/printer combo? +When you could have fun by just scanning your butt[fn:work]? +Yeah - it all got consolidated. +A desk full of cool peripherals you were too poor to get is now a boring slab of glass that happens to have a GSM modem attached. +There is no wonder, no sense of aspiration, as it's all the same. + +Therefore, modern tech journalism has a huge uphill battle. +You've got boring stuff to cover, and you won't pay your salary by being insightful. +There are not many text-based sites I'd gladly pay for. + +And vlogs are mostly a downgrade because they don't let the imagination go wild. +When you read a description of how it feels to play /Quake/ and had a few screenshots, your imagination went wild. +At least mine did. +When you get 10 minutes of gameplay a week before a game is out, you know it all. + +It's much easier to be know-it-all today, a professional. +But that's also why everyone is so mean. +Too much information makes jack a grumpy boy. +It was not always like that. +A printer used to be cool! +Love was poured not only on the new and shiny, but on everything that was out there. + +It's not that proper computer press went away, it's that it was too good for us. +We rejected it and replaced with bland portals and Canadian vloggers + +[fn:work] without making your job. + ** DONE Another two websites moved CLOSED: [2024-09-20 Fri 20:05] :PROPERTIES: |