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I like what the guy did, but am I the only one who feels most of these "I did x with y" articles always end up trying to sell you something? What happened to just sharing our knowledge with each other?

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Most content on the internet is created for marketing purposes, unfortunately. I don't have much room to talk, as I do it myself. That doesn't mean that we don't enjoy creating the content, or sharing our knowledge with others, but it can definitely get old being the consumer of these pieces.

I’m not sure about that. How do you measure? I would expect that the vast quantity of content created is not to sell, its by individual creators writing these comments, tweeting, blogging, etc.

Perhaps the majority of content read, but that’s because it is marketed.

I’m not sure how you would measure. Count all the bytes on .com vs .org?

> Most content on the internet is created for marketing purposes, unfortunately

Why is this unfortunate?

Because the marketing is incredibly low quality. It's equivalent of most mail I get. Completely ignored.

Well he doesn't have a job now, does he? ;)

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