The Power of Writing Down Facts
Last month: Offloading to the Sister Site
Many people can write. Unless illiterate, most people write every day. It's not that hard, even just for oneself or one single recipient. Some people work in PR. They write many lies. There are people who "prompt" LLMs for words; they don't write, they paste. It's a bunch of glorified garbage and/or plagiarism done poorly.
The power of words depends a lot on the author's credibility. Almost everyone can write "a book", but few can convince a large publisher to distribute it. That's because not every word written will be read.
Recently I was advised to write more in other sites, as Techrights was already publishing a great deal. So indeed, I started writing more original stories in the sister site:
Being a site with a loyal readership (some going back to summer of 2004), anything published there will reach a modest-sized audience, typically users of GNU/Linux and BSD. In this site, Techrights, the demography isn't the same but there are overlaps.
Back in 2006 I wrote many articles about Microsoft and Novell. The audience grew quickly and Novell became very nervous. Microsoft also. Then we started attracting leakers and whistleblowers (we were the only site to ever leak OOMXL). In future years - within only a few years (because they trusted us) - we already got leaks from and about IBM, lots from the EPO, and we even battled several SLAPPs - all of them successfully.
Writing facts isn't the hard part; the harder part is defending them from bullies and overzealous corporations, including rich people with their catspaws.
The more we write and publish, the more people will know what happened. So we publish on... █