ScuzzBlog: Diaries August 2017
Entry 15th August 2017: Post: 2
CU Amiga Popularity
Paul
Adverts are fine, if they are related to that which you are interested
in. The adverts in the Amiga magazines for the most part were all
related to the Amiga and I had no issue with it. Four or five pages of
articles and then a two page spread by Power Computing. Sometimes the
adverts related to the reviews but that was just commercial sense. A
healthy volume of adverts is fine and shows a popular product. Trouble
is now the adverts are just an empty space on a webpage to be filled at
random by any advertising company. Very often that space has little
parent control. Worse is that the advert space is often also filled with
content that some third party organisation has deemed may be interesting
to you based on your browser activity.
There is an element of trust that has to be earned by any published work
where the author considers they are educating and informing. Without
that trust the words are meaningless. I hate to say it but the words of
the BBC e.g. [ say ] are ever getting less trustworthy as they have
taken to report Tweets by anyone as substitute for informed comment.
That trend to use online messaging as a way of entertaining and
informing has become the norm on many sites. For me you can have it.
Hate it. When I read stuff I really enjoy the learning more. It adds to
my collective understanding. There is a difference between a fact and a
comment. Thing is the blogs and supposed internet community have
destroyed true journalism. They also killed off the professional
photographer in doing so. Anyone with a phone camera these days can get
their stuff on the BBC. Why pay a photographer when you can get junk
pics for free. Nobody cares... The world we live in is the world we
want. Just sad when you realise it could be so much better. But you
gotta pay for that. And nobody today wants to pay for anything. So junk
pics it is, subtitled .. ' Third world war declared and me getting
pissed lol..' Breaking News.
On that Nick thing they all moved around at Future.
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