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Comment by dreyfiz | Hacker News Reader

Why do people insist on writing like this? The first sentence is the only piece of information in this article. The rest is filler, mindless regurgitation for people who just woke up from a 30-year coma combined with random predictions based on nothing.

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Because the writers at these blogs are expected to produce tons and tons of content per day, and thoughtful, insightful content is not something that can be produced in 15 slapdash minutes.

I guess you're right. If you're writing about a topic that your audience is also well-informed about, odds are that you're wasting their time regurgitating such factoids as "iPhone only comes in one form factor" and "there are 50 different Android phones". I'm guessing anyone reading VentureBeat knows that, it's not exactly USA Today's audience. It's a plague on the internet, not just with paid bloggers but even people who are writing for their own sites who feel the need to tell you things you already know for paragraphs on end before getting to the point.

In fact, if your headline had included the phrase "AdMob chief says", all the information in the article would be contained in your headline.

I hope I'm wrong. Because the alternative suggests that our tech media is, by and large, as useless or even more useless than our traditional media (our, meaning the United States'. Apologies to the other 6.5BB people worldwide).

The people who are seen as the true 'luminaries' of tech journalism are simply the ones who've been able to make the most noise:

Steve Gillmor writes the most incoherent essays I've ever read.

Robert Scoble is simply excited about everything (but occasionally takes time to call me an idiot when I criticize his photography).

John Dvorak has admitted to and seems proud of being a professional troll.

MG Siegler...I don't even know where to start with him. Frankly, I would probably believe he was a cunning piece of software had I not met him at WWDC 2009.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

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