NolanTech journalists on Mastodon: "Mastodon Inc only has 50,000 users, but with adequate venture capital funding it may stand a chance"
More tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon is currently a free service, but soon it will bend to the iron will of Silicon Valley, which is that you either sell out to investors or become irrelevant like Wikipedia."
Still more tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon cannot survive with such a silly name. It needs a more serious and business-friendly name, such as Google, Yahoo, or Hulu."
It's almost as if tech journalists do the bare minimum of research before moving on to the next topic. Or that the tech industry has become so focused on chasing giant piles of money that nobody can remember a time when true successes on the internet were achieved by hobbyists working on passion projects with no regard for how much money they might make
Laura Bergells ☮️1. In the 1990's, I would also get press releases directly from MS and Apple. I also got the WSJ. Mossberg's columns and big tech co press releases were almost identical.
2. A few years ago, MS came out with Sway. About 100 posts in tech journals had headlines "It's a PowerPoint killer!"
I played with the software for 15 minutes. It was immediately clear that it was not a PowerPoint killer, but a PowerPoint companion.
And we never heard about Sway again.