Podcast recommendation: On Apple and rumours
Joshua Schnell recently spoke to Jim Dalrymple and Stephen Hackett about dealing with rumours about Apple and technology in general, the process of deciding what to post on their blogs and journalistic quality in a business that often relies on pages views and ad revenue.
A very insightful discussion on the insanity that is the Apple/tech sphere that I can wholeheartedly recommend.
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I’ve completely stopped reading sites like Gizmodo, Apple Insider, MacRumours and the likes, simply because they provide nothing of value anymore; they just spew unsubstantiated bits of information at their readers.
On the other hand I really enjoy reading both macgasm and The Loop, because they provide well filtered and well written content on topics that I’m interested in. Sites like the aforementioned are a refreshing change from the incessant chatter that surrounds Apple.
A few of the other sites that I enjoy for the same reasons are asymco.com, daringfireball.net, arstechnica.com, Macworld, and The Macalope.
Oh and no one should go out of the house without the current episode of Angry Mac Bastards on their iPhone/iPod, because they cut through the bullshit like a hot bat’leth through butter.
That’s basically what Steve Jobs did on Friday. He got up on stage, explained that this issue wasn’t as bad as it was being made out to be, told the people that mattered how it would be resolved, and told the harpies to shut the fuck up. I’m glad he finally got pissed off enough to do it.
Darby Lines’s on Steve Jobs’s calling the press coverage regarding the iPhone 4’s alleged antenna issues to be blown out of proportion.
It just makes me sad it were basically respectable news outlets that drove him to be this angry and disappointed.
You can see Steve didn’t particularly care about tech blogs and the random New Media Douchebag; he was angry that journalistic institutions gave into the temptation of producing badly researched, exaggerated and unverified link bait.
I don’t want to see us to descend into a nation of bloggers, myself … we need editorial more than ever right now.
Steve Jobs at D8 on if the iPad will save the newspaper companies.
Call me a sensationalistic blogger, but I think this was a completely justified jab at Gawker/Gizmodo.
