Monday, August 04
Daily News Stuff 4 August 2025
Hot Water Edition
Hot Water Edition
Top Story
- Did Craigslist really kill newspapers? (Poynter)
Yes. Sort of. Maybe. But also mostly no.
Newspapers had been in slow decline for thirty years when Craigslist launched in 1995.
What the site did certainly do was accelerate a process started by the newspapers themselves.
Tech News
- FCC chairman Brendan Carr is Literally Worse Than Hitler. (The Verge) (archive site)
His crime?
Nobody watches Stephen Colbert.
Constant outrage must be really tough on brain cells.
- The acquisition of Commodore by Christian "Perifractic" Simpson and his backers has been completed. (Tom's Hardware)
I don't have any particular association with the classic 8-bit Commodore machines - I was an Amiga kid - but this is still welcome news.
I wonder if FPGA hardware-emulated Amigas might be in the works in the future through a collaboration with Amiga Inc. and Cloanto, which publishes the software-level emulator Amiga Forever.
- Early versions of Microsoft Recall were pulled from distribution when it was discovered they collected all your most sensitive information in one database where it was convenient for hackers to steal it. It still does that. (The Register)
Do not want.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: All in all it's just another three cue in the wall.
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From reading Lileks, and also sometimes trawling through newspaper archives myself, the Print, as a medium, has been in "slow" decline since the Radio became ubiquitous. The decline has been accelerating since the 1980s, 'tis true, and the 1990s was a truly dreadful time, when papers were closing or consolidating, but what killed papers (I'm counting the ones in iron lungs as dead already) was the loss of local writers in various markets, and the narrowing of worldviews on the part of the papers and their much reduced staffs. CL just took away the classified ads, which was a bit of a twist of the knife, but they were already stabbed and bleeding at that point.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, August 05 2025 06:03 AM (XUcVo)
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And then some anti-trafficing law killed Craig's List personals.
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, August 10 2025 01:23 PM (QE7eq)
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