[Ipg-smz] Not the greeting I was expecting ...

[Tom Henderson]

Amazingly, I may have the largest independent test lab, enterprise 
grade, left. Who's left doing enterprise-grade product reviews?

I wonder if this is the emergence of the tech oligarchy.

It's my humble opinion that I have but a fraction of what might be 
realistic: 500 Xeon cores, 40K GPU cores, 100TB NVMe SAN, 10GB with 
100GB core router. This is crazy. There should be ten dozen of me.

This is how the media becomes controlled: asphyxiation.

Imagine: I'm using this stuff to make cryptocurrency because 
enterprise-grade product journalism has been starved off-- choked.

Tom


On 11/5/19 2:20 AM, Tom Geller via Ipg-smz wrote:
> On 5 Nov 2019, at 08:01, Howard M. Cohen via Ipg-smz<ipg-smz at netpress.org>  wrote:
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>> many of us have changed who we write for
> If you write for a vendor, are you a "journalist"? Open for debate, but I'd say "no", and my comments here reflect that. Certainly the consensus answer was "no" twenty years ago.
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>> Ours is a vibrant and vital community.
> Arguing against that:
> * Far lower freelance rates, down over 75% from the 1990s.
> * Far fewer staff positions, probably down over 90%.
> * Far less care and oversight (copyeditors, managing editors, etc.). Again I'd say 75-90% shrinkage.
> * Far fewer publications, so less mobility.
> * For less exposure from each piece (shorter pieces, in the public eye for only days or hours).
> * Far less publication revenue from our work, causing all the above.
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> I'll grant that it's a "vibrant and vital community" -- of part-timers, hobbyists, and retired folks looking to stay busy (*ahem*). But for only a tiny number is it a profession nowadays.
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> It's nice work if you can get it. And if you get it, won't you tell me how?
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