Chrome won’t be available for another year. And we know precious little about it beyond its due date and the fact that it’s designed primarily for netbooks. Nobody really knows at this point what impact, if any, the Chrome OS will have on you, me, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or anyone else.
But that didn’t stop the bloviation: “Five Reasons Why Microsoft Does Not Need to Worry About Chrome.” “Google’s War on the PC.” “How Will Chrome OS Change Gaming?” “Netbook OS Oddsmaking: Who Will Win the War?”
Posting something, anything at all, about Chrome OS was guaranteed to up your page views this week, so everybody (even Entertainment Weekly) did.
Unfortunately, most of those stories (with a few sensible exceptions) were either redundant or hooey.
via More news not good news | Mac OS X | Editors’ Notes | Macworld.
One of the things journalists / bloggers forget in chase for the page views, is to have a real story. Everyone is just trying to ride a wave and pick up some visitors here and there by just reporting what has already been said.
No one takes time to go to the original source, investigate things, analyze things and put their unique perspective into it. The reader is the loser in the short term, but the website / blog will also lose the credibility by just repeating what has already been said by competitors.
Mashable and likes must do it as otherwise their page views will drop, revenue will go and they will seize existing.
But too many new / upcoming bloggers are just reporting. Somehow they mistake useful and unique content for reporting what bigger bloggers are writing about. Always analyze information, go to the original source of the story and see if you can find unique angle, add your opinion to the story…