November 9, 2006
I love The Register. It always has such a warped view of the world. It covered the Tamarin project announcement yesterday which means that El Reg thinks it's pretty big news. That's definitely a good thing.
Unfortunately, their coverage is a little strange... The article starts out just fine, mostly quoting from the press release, but then quickly goes off the rails. When they talk about Flash Player 9, they completely fail to mention the huge performance boost and the all-new Virtual Machine. Then they say "Adobe was compelled to open its Flash source code" to "stay relevant" and that this is all about "compatibility and stability with Firefox". The author, Gavin Clarke, clearly didn't read beyond the first couple of paragraphs of the press release that he quoted. Mind you, most of his Register articles focus on Microsoft so perhaps I should cut him some slack...
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Personally, if you write technical articles for a technical publication and can't get the details at least 95% accurate then you should consider an alternative career or employer. For example, a week after the much-maligned single-reinstall license restriction in Windows Vista was retracted many publications are still talking about the original problem; sometimes it like the journo's are locked in a closet somewhere and are given random week-old printouts of press releases to base their articles on. And don't get me started on printed magazines, I mean printed marketing brochures.
Posted By Damien McKenna / Posted At
11/9/06 9:31 AM
I used to read The Register's website too. The last 2 or so years I scan their competitor, theinquirer.net, which at one point was in fact a spinoff (ex employee I think) of theregister.co.uk. Since then, I think the inquirer was bought by a big publisher.
Anyway, I find the inquirer to be decent, but their BS jargon gets on my nerves.
Posted By Ryan / Posted At
11/10/06 2:41 AM
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