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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