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
MMN-o ✅⃠@nolan You're forgetting that "tech journalism" is more like "product reports with advertisement alongside". It has basically nothing to do with journalism - even less so any kind of investigative such.
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Is this really accurate?
I mean, yeah, there's a subset of tech journalism that's basically product placement/reviews, & thus isn't any better than video game or movie reviews in terms of encouraging content. But very little interesting tech comes out of businesses, so there's at least some non-payola-driven stuff going on.
Even big orgs like ars technica & wired have a huge quality range -- you can tell by word count which articles are fluff.