2 hours per edition seems a touch high!

There may be a problem with the money

I am usually resistant to the notion that times are permanently changed. There seems to be a real trend towards making things sound as bad or as good as possible, and to feel that each new event is totally unprecedented. It’s in the interest of a large swathe of people to believe that. The media, both in terms of the traditional broadcasters and the internet echo chamber need to generate hype as hard as they can, and are interested in presenting things in that fashion.

At the same time, I have to admit that a 2,500+ drop in the Dow over the last month makes me a little worried. I know that stock prices have little direct economic impact on a non-investor such as me, but at the same time I also feel that it does have some barometric value.

(found on VentureBeat)
I particularly find the notes about advertising and mobile interesting. They are often claimed to be immune or shelters, but I think that if there is a real drop in consumer spending, that will have an impact. Even oil is down, there’s a 12% drop year-on-year for Brent Crude for September. It seems like there is a retrenching throughout the global economy, and the Valley is far from immune

The first time I heard about Slashdot, it was a wonderful place. The ‘news for nerds’ was high-impact and usually well before any other sites. I spent most of the summer of 2003 moderating comments, I even have a few 5’s.

No more.

As of today, slashdot is off my list of rss feeds. The editor-based blog is not keeping up with headlines and worse the quality of the summaries is now so low that it seems to be wrong on basic facts. This story on MySQL was the last straw. It’s a typical example of what slashdot has become: either the story is late, or it’s all over the place with a misleading headline. I don’t mind bad headlines in reddit or digg, but the editors in /. used to mean something.

The sad thing is that there’s no real substitute since the linksites like reddit and digg have barely anything to do with tech and are pretty shoddy in their content anyway. It’s going to come down to assembling rss feeds on netvibes, and reading twitter. You can look at the stuff I read on netvibes through my Tech Universe.