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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:13:31 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> And here you thought nobody was reading your blog. ;-)
>
> Yeah, apparently...
I don't comment often, but I always read the new entries. Like I said, I
find you to be a good writer, and the topics you write about are
interesting - though like anyone else, the amount of interest varies from
post to post.
>>> Apparently I'm not geek enough. To me, it seemed to be all business
>>> and politics...
>>
>> There is some of that, but there are a fair number of technical
>> articles. I use Google Reader to scan the headlines and articles, goes
>> pretty quickly that way.
>
> IME, headlines tend to be wildly misleading.
>
> (E.g., "I was pregnant for 3 years!" When you read the story, actually
> she had a liver infection that made her *look* pregnant for 3 years...)
That's why I use it as a source to see what I should read about - I don't
just look at the headline (well, usually, I do - and that's what I use to
determine if I want to read more). If the story looks interesting, then
I'll read the referenced article, because /. nearly always includes a
link to the source article, and that's where the good info is.
IOW, I use it as a news filter for geek-related topics.
Jim
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