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    From john larkin@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 12 20:09:29 2025
    The new trend is to have a few stories and repeat each one many times
    on one web page.

    https://www.planetanalog.com/

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  • From Ian@21:1/5 to john larkin on Fri Jun 13 07:12:04 2025
    On 2025-06-13, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
    The new trend is to have a few stories and repeat each one many times
    on one web page.

    https://www.planetanalog.com/

    Even the BBC does that. Annoying to see the same story over and over, sometimes right next to each other, and sometimes 3 or more times. Guess they don't have any editorial oversight, and just chuck stuff into their CMS. Lazy.

    --
    Ian

    "Tamahome!!!" - "Miaka!!!"

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  • From john larkin@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 13 07:27:34 2025
    On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:12:04 -0000 (UTC), Ian <${send-direct-email-to-news1021-at-jusme-dot-com-if-you-must}@jusme.com> wrote:

    On 2025-06-13, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
    The new trend is to have a few stories and repeat each one many times
    on one web page.

    https://www.planetanalog.com/

    Even the BBC does that. Annoying to see the same story over and over, sometimes
    right next to each other, and sometimes 3 or more times. Guess they don't have >any editorial oversight, and just chuck stuff into their CMS. Lazy.

    They sometimes have story, then most viewed story, then favorite
    story, or just keep repeating.

    Everybody is doing it.

    Between that and a zillion popups and auto-refresh and new window
    openings, I've given up on many sites, including technical ones.

    Another metric is the Trump Count. Even scientific/technical sites
    have high Trump counts. I bail from a site (or a newspaper article)
    when it sprurious injects the T-word. That makes the Sunday New York
    Times a two minute read. The Register was hitting Nt of 6 or 8 on the
    home page, but seems to be tapering off.

    I guess actual content is too expensive these days.

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  • From Martin Brown@21:1/5 to john larkin on Mon Jun 16 13:10:43 2025
    On 13/06/2025 15:27, john larkin wrote:
    On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:12:04 -0000 (UTC), Ian <${send-direct-email-to-news1021-at-jusme-dot-com-if-you-must}@jusme.com> wrote:

    On 2025-06-13, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
    The new trend is to have a few stories and repeat each one many times
    on one web page.

    https://www.planetanalog.com/

    Even the BBC does that. Annoying to see the same story over and over, sometimes
    right next to each other, and sometimes 3 or more times. Guess they don't have
    any editorial oversight, and just chuck stuff into their CMS. Lazy.

    They sometimes have story, then most viewed story, then favorite
    story, or just keep repeating.

    I isn't uncommon for recent published articles to be both summarised on
    the home page and linked as a most frequently viewed top ten as well.

    Everybody is doing it.

    Between that and a zillion popups and auto-refresh and new window
    openings, I've given up on many sites, including technical ones.

    Another metric is the Trump Count. Even scientific/technical sites
    have high Trump counts. I bail from a site (or a newspaper article)
    when it sprurious injects the T-word. That makes the Sunday New York
    Times a two minute read. The Register was hitting Nt of 6 or 8 on the
    home page, but seems to be tapering off.

    I guess actual content is too expensive these days.

    It will get cheaper when AI can just roll it out and they can avoid the expensive overheads of knowledgeable technical reporters.

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    Martin Brown

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