Pacing Publication Up a Bit
Today (local time) is our wedding anniversary, so of course we both got sent some more threatening communications from the Microsofters [1, 2].
Next week will be a productive week for us as the holiday ends and we can better focus on our sites. So far this week we've published close to 30 articles per day in this site and about 3 per day (originals) in the sister site. We can do better than that, as workflows continue to improve and we receive more inputs from sources. We have good and increasingly fruitful collaborations going on.
If the rumours are true, some time later this week the third wave of Microsoft layoffs for this month will get reported (or passively unravelled). The company has so many difficulties this year that all it can do is issue press releases with totally fictional sums of money in them (lobbying our politicians with fake bribes or hypothetical figures) while top managers flee and about 30,000 workers are laid off in less than 9 months. Suppose a company lays off an average of 10,000 workers every quarter. Can such a company really invest in anything considerable? No. Of course not.
I don't plan to take any holidays the rest of this year. I'll be staying home most of the time, so there will probably be more articles and perhaps I'll get back to making videos (I lack good and previously-uncovered topics, not a drive). The news cycles have gotten rather light and slow; a lot of what's left is shallow parroting and slopfarms. The news peaks around Wednesday, sometimes Thursday, and almost grinds to a halt by Friday afternoon. Many news sites employ editors on a part-time basis (to keep costs lower), so time delays exist and most days there's nobody to vet reports or even opinion pieces, which causes a further significant delay and poor timeliness. News sites that are relevant need to be on top of the ball all the time, not a few times a week. They should moreover focus on substance and originality, not traffic (which clickbait is for). █