Given the choice, unless you’re the New York Times and your entire business is built around throwing out some of the world’s best writing every day right after breakfast, you should choose to write things which last. After all, you don’t write software with the explicit intention that it will suffer bitrot hours after release, now do you?)
He’s writing for an audience that sells software as a service (SaaS). Why would he give journalism more than a disclaimer (which he does include)?
He might be writing for an SaaS audience, but he’s writing about the blog format, which is built to facilitate crowdsourced magazine journalism or editorial-style content. Now, he’s quite right that the format’s poorly suited to long-form or reference-style content, but starting a post with “let’s talk about blogging” and proceeding to talk about all the ways it sucks for those content types, without much more than a word for its intended purpose, strikes me as a pretty serious omission.
If instead he’d framed it as “blogs are often misused”, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But that’s not where we’re standing.
He’s writing for an audience that sells software as a service (SaaS). Why would he give journalism more than a disclaimer (which he does include)?
He might be writing for an SaaS audience, but he’s writing about the blog format, which is built to facilitate crowdsourced magazine journalism or editorial-style content. Now, he’s quite right that the format’s poorly suited to long-form or reference-style content, but starting a post with “let’s talk about blogging” and proceeding to talk about all the ways it sucks for those content types, without much more than a word for its intended purpose, strikes me as a pretty serious omission.
If instead he’d framed it as “blogs are often misused”, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But that’s not where we’re standing.
What makes it serious? What purpose does including journalism in the article serve?