It's even worse than it appears..
Thursday August 29, 2024; 11:33 AM EDT
News on the web still sucks#
  • I can't read most of the stories I want to read. I have the money and am willing to spend it. But there is no system that allows me to pay. #
  • On the other hand the distribution of video entertainment is somewhat functional, I spend an ungodly amount of mostly wasted money to get access to that. #
  • I am not cheap. The news system realllly doesn't work. It could be fixed, but for the usual problem -- they would have to work with each other. #
  • If you think the NYT is a huge success, compare its size to the size of Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon or Apple, all of whom have made great businesses out of distributing other people's products. #
  • Market caps for Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and NYT.#
  • We were getting somewhere with RSS, btw -- but the journalism industry lost its minds over Twitter, and let the tech industry own the distribution system, and now it's a total mess, a good time for a re-think, I think. #
  • I generated graph in ChatGPT by just asking for it. It has great chart software built-in. Quietly they are rearranging all the pieces of software we use. They will end up owning everything, and meanwhile people are asking if this is a bubble. Not really. More like an invasion. #

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