On 6/20/05, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The amateur/reader-created news sites are a lot better at finding and > printing the really interesting stories. That's because the publisher > is passionate -- a zealot -- about the subject matter. The price we > pay is that the content is not sanitized, and the zeal shows through. > For me, it's well worth that price.
They're also lazy and untruthful, often posting great misinformation, such as the recent "Apple to lock OS Xi" and numerous "Microsoft Is Evil" stories. To say that the content is "not sanitized" is like saying a toilet is "not sanitized" -- a serious understatement. Personally, I don't have time to sift through the misinformation, the FUD, the zealousness, and so on. > BTW, there's another Linux news site I recommend: Linux Weekly News, > lwn.net. The editor, Jonathan Corbet, is definitely a zealot (and > a kernel developer). But the articles and the reader comments are > less juvenile than you-know-where. LWN is also much more tightly > focused on Linux. While I don't have much of an interest in Linux anymore (OS X since '01), I'll check it out. /per _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
