The following has OT subjects: a responder's post should be EV-related. I post this for the EV time-line as a point in EV-history, thus I am mentioning non-EV points that affect it.
You may have noticed a change to what I am posting both in content and in amount. A few months ago there was a flurry of EV related items, and now it has slowed considerably. So why is that? IMHO, as I have mentioned before, it is a change in manufacturer's strategy. There is a change in what is being fed to media outlet writers. It is not a change in public opinion, as the media has never really listened to what the public wants, but to when a company pays the media outlet to do something for them (money talks). The copy (a manufacturer's news release, etc.) given to the media outlet writers is for them to pump out to the public as informational gospel (though 'we' know it is anything but that ... ). As some may know, several times a day, I sieve through the newswires gleaning out plugin items that evdl.org members would be interested in reading as well as items that show the changes in plugin attitudes, etc. This force-fed copy has keywords Electric, vehicle, car mixed in with their actual agenda (h2, fcv, alt-fuels, etc.). Thus when someone tries to find plugin news, they are going to get a whole lot of junk they were not seeking (its another form of spamming, unwanted advertising, etc.). I am quite familiar with this as I have been seeing it everyday since when I began doing all of this way-back in the start of the 1990's, it has become more tuned and more intense. I have always been willing to adjust my searches to try to weed-out what will not be wanted (or allowed, etc.) on the evdl members. But think of the naive public, who may begin to think EVs consume fuel and do not plug-in to ue renewable energy. Ah, that is what they (the manufactures) wanted. Skewing what the public thinks has been the manufacturer's tool for a very long time. When I compare the reduction in EV newswires to the increase in non-EV newswires (when I purposely search for h2, etc.) the volume has stayed the same, but the subject focus has shifted away from EVs and to non-EVs. What does all that (above) mean? To me, it means the amount of writer staff at media outlets have not increased (they are paid to pump whatever > quantity not quality, or even what the readers want, etc.). But the shift away from EVs to non-EVs means I will have less to post, and it means a serious diluting of the public's knowledge of what EVs are and are about. While this may make those manufacturers pleased, I will keep searching. But please don't shoot the messenger (or piano-player) for having less juicy, or choice EV items/tidbits to post. fyi- the main thrust of the writers on EV items seems to happen between Wednesday and Friday. While some hot items do trickle in outside of that, the huge copy-cat responses (from other media outlets) do not occur until days later. I search each and everyday anyway as some media outlets release their stories days after it has either been in their paper print media, or first on their on website(s). So, I will find items a few days old that were not released until later by double or triple searching a few days back. Its a lot of effort, but sometimes I find something that might be of interest to evdl readers. I find it interesting that this huge thru$t has occurred (before the elections &) right at the time when the National Drive Electric Week 2015 https://driveelectricweek.org/events.php (enlarge/expand the map to see this is not just a U.S.A. EVent, other countries also have these ... ) I am happy to see that one of my local EAAev.org chapters (Silicon Valley) has begun listing their National Drive Electric Week EVent http://eaasv.org/event/2015-annual-ndew-rally/ 2015 Annual NDEW Rally September 19 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Free I hope to feel well enough to attend this EVent. I will continue to be a good boy and do my daily mild walker exercise so I will have the energy and endurance to enjoy it for a few hours. On a selfish note: I am beginning to look around to eventually relocate. While I did grow up in the Silicon Valley area (long before it was called that and when it was mostly agriculture), landlord's greed has taken its toll in this area to where only those that can afford to live here in the much-touted Hi-Tech version of Emerald-City, will be left (meaning I no longer have the hp Customer-Engineer pay, and will have to move to where a fixed-income EVangel can survive a few more years). So who knows, I might end up enjoying my last few Internet-connected years indoors with a VA hospital nearby, in the same (let it snow) state as MN's Lee-Hart, or down in (lots of sun-shine) NM or AZ way, or on the east coast's hurricane country, or somewhere in the Mid-west's tornado-alley ... My search is far from over/concluded, so I am speaking of what may be to come. We shall see what is to be. For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/OT-EVLN-EV-newswire-status-tp4676627.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
