DownloadSquad Policy: We Delete Blog Posts When We’re Wrong
Posted on 15. Feb, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in Features
It’s interesting. When you blog about something and you’re incorrect, you usually just append that information and then update your post. Apparently over at AOL’s DownloadSqaud blog, if you get something wrong you simply delete the post. Earlier today I came across an article from Jay Hathaway about Eric Schmidt’s talk today at the Mobile World Congress and Chrome’s active users. Here’s the intro:
Google’s Eric Schmidt gave the keynote at MWC 2011, providing an immense amount of information about the state of Google. One number jumped out at us, though: 120 million active Chrome users. This is the first time Google has revealed the size of Chrome’s userbase since last year’s Google I/O, when they reported 70 million users. We knew Chrome was popular, but we didn’t know exactly how popular until now.
There are a number of things that jump out at me, but here’s the big one: the number of active Chrome users is at 120 million and that is new to you? That’s not new information. This was pointed out over two months ago during the December 7 Chrome event. I blogged about it then and so did Engadget.
I commented on that a few hours ago, and now the post is completely gone. When you try to go to the original URL, it just redirects you now. Here is the complete text of the article. All you had to do was update the post, not delete it.
So maybe Jay Hathaway and whoever he is referring to as “us” above should refrain writing about Chrome. He doesn’t seem to know what he’s talking about. Even worse is that he’s not even sure he knows what he’s talking about because he’s too lazy to look information up for a 244 word blog post.
Where did you go?
I like DownloadSquad. I post links from articles written by Lee Mathews and Sebastian Anthony quite a bit. But this “publish early and publish often” deal that is sent down from the powers-that-be at AOL seems to be affecting the writing over there. As in, “it doesn’t matter if you know what you’re talking about, we can publish it and if its wrong we’ll just delete it”. What’s the difference, then, between AOL and a content farm?
I apologize for the rant, thanks for reading. I feel better now.
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acupunc
15. Feb, 2011
It seems that most tech sites are using that same philosophy, publish early & often; however, they are often wrong and just as often never update the wrong information. It’s actually gotten very bad. I would much rather wait for a thorough in-depth well researched article.
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