Now, I’m not a journalist, I’m just a layman, and I can’t help but write about the new OS in detail.
So, I’m going to change my point of view and write about how I found out about this topic and what I felt when I saw how it happened. I’m going to try to write my impressions from the point of view of
I think it was after 10:00 pm on February 16th when this news was released and people started to talk about it.
I first learned about this topic from this article in the Nikkei Shimbun.
I happened to find this article in my Google Reader and opened it thinking that Nikkei, an old man’s media, is writing a cool article.
I looked at it and saw that it said « new OS » and I thought that Lion came out last summer and that they were slow to talk about it as usual, but it wasn’t like that, it was really about the « new OS » that was just announced!
It was soon followed by news in the Wall Street Journal (in English, of course), which has been getting more and more priority lately.
The ones who responded and sent out information earlier are Mashable and so on, though it’s just my feeling at the level of Twitter TL and Google Reader feed.
I’ve never been one to pay much attention to breaking news, but I thought it was important to be aware of the importance of knowing highly sensitive information as soon as possible, and that knowing it as soon as possible is interesting in itself.
Breaking news unlike twitter
This breaking news that I felt this time is a little different from twitter.
The most obvious difference is the number of words of information, which in a way is obvious. Yes, the text itself is a solid volume of articles.
It is true that twitter has a real time feature of tweeting such voluminous « This is the media that publishes news and commentary articles! This is the media that is sending out news and commentary articles!
By the way, speaking of news feeds, these days it’s all about Facebook, and it seems that RSS readers are obsolete, and that gathering information from Facebook is now more mainstream.
However, the news feed of facebook is a delicate point, compared to twitter, it is still a bit similar to RSS reader, but still there is a time difference between posting to various media compared to direct RSS transmission.
This is because Facebook is often operated by simply posting RSS feeds to the wall using a suitable plug-in, or by having a person in charge who posts articles selected by that person each time.
Google Reader can still be used as a central player.
From the above, I found again that Google Reader is very useful in terms of breaking news.
Although Facebook and social graphs are becoming the mainstream in the Internet world these days, we still think that RSS readers are still of great value.
