did I ever link to this on ifyouonly before?

"I’m more concerned about the suggestion that you have to cheat to come up with remarkable journalism that tilts the rink."

See? This, this is the kind of shit that passes for technology news. And he managed to spin about a thousand words out of it. Christ

"The vast bulk of journalism concerning everyday technology is dominated by the technology press, which is rarely critical in the sense that Domus is, rarely covers design aspects with any depth, and rarely attempts to place developments in a wider cultural context. While I have no problem with the likes of Engadget, Techcrunch, Wired and the rest—not that they’d notice either way if I did!—there did seem a gap in the market here."

Il segnale forte arriva dall’attenzione che il progetto ha ricevuto non solo in termini di visibilità e viralità, vedi i numerosi tweet sulla rete e i post di fonti autorevoli, ma anche di spirito partecipativo e interessamento alla mission.

Poynter piece spinning off MATTER and longform. It's been interesting to see how people respond/react around it.

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