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Summary: We're still developing better tools for finding and clustering/grouping news from the World Wide Web, seeing that the Web rapidly deteriorates and there's no way to ameliorate this other than swallowing thousands of RSS feeds, then straining them for the actual signal (meaningful and important news, not hearsay/gossip)

THE VIDEO above discusses the deterioration of the media, especially in the signal-to-noise ratio sense. We wrote about it yesterday (also here) because the alarming rate of decline (in signal) means that "harvesting" the important news or curating what actually matters will be getting harder. Even news about GNU/Linux became rather scarce. The video covers some new and old rants about what Phoronix became. In days of slow news there's even promotion of Microsoft junk, GitHub stuff, and various hardware products which are proprietary and patented, albeit spun as "community".

"The Web is rapidly becoming a junkyard and graveyard. Sites turn into mostly junk or go offline."Some time next week we hope to do more proper coverage of ways to scan the news, via RSS feeds, with additional annotation that aids discovery, classification and so on. Without a lot of editing and human intervention it's possible that over 80% of what's new on the Web can be deemed junk. The Web is rapidly becoming a junkyard and graveyard. Sites turn into mostly junk or go offline. ⬆