Press release reporting

Bloggers do it far to often, but the good old media picture is being more and more engulfed as well. Especially in the technology sector. Writing an article is now as easy as rough handily quoting a press release, make up an opinion at the bottom, and pressing “publish”.

Looking back at this blog’s archive, you see the same. The desire to publish and grab more eyeballs have been much greater than the will to publish something valuable.

I have, however, moved away from this model lately. I am not republishing other websites—except for my own article who were recently published at SitePoint—nor have I rewritten too many press releases. (There have been a few PR-releases, I must admit.) What has this change meant for the number of readers?

Well, they have actually plummeted. I thought they would do so as I am unable to produce the amount of garbage I used to do.

A conclusion? … I will probably stop blogging for good. At least on this subject. I will probably keep the domain; and use the website as a scratch book were I can share ideas, codes, and such. But this will happen in a self-produced publishing tool. (See! I will have codes to share.) When The Way-Back Machine has finished crawling trough all the blog posts, I will kill the blog.

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One comment

I have to say I agree with you 100% and have been faced with a similar dilemma. The pace of writing and the volume of trash both puts me off and drags me into a race to the bottom if you want to compete.

Its a tragedy that the web has found itself so competitive that only quantity and hype tend to prevail.

By the way I do have your contact details as you commented on my blog ages ago See we have crossed paths already!

Good luck in your chosen direction whatever it may be and drop me a line if you like. Its nice to know others think as I do.

Cheers
Roger

Comment by Roger Kondrat (Subscribed) at 2008-10-26 @170.

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