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Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by walrus01 »

akprasad wrote: post #39
walrus01 wrote: post #33

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> Most popular media source in the country right now [citation needed]

I was curious and gave it a search. It's hardly a high quality source, but: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seem... Per the chart, Rogan has 11m viewers per episode compared to 3.24m for Tucker Carlson Tonight, which was the highest-viewed primetime cable news show as of 2020 per [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight#Ratings

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Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by timrice »

walrus01 wrote: post #22
hersko wrote: post #20

The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.

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Didn't Rogan emphatically endorse Bernie last election cycle? Have the alt right become socialists when I wasn't looking?

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by geoblack »

The only thing I resent about moving to ebooks from the library is time I wasted on second rate content from the internet.

I have seven library cards and I can read almost anything for free. If none have what I want, they will often order it and notify me when it arrives. All from my sweet Gesture chair. Also Kanopy has wonderful classes for free.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by methusala8 »

walrus01 wrote: post #41
akprasad wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was curious and gave it a search. It's hardly a high quality source, but: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seem... Per the chart, Rogan has 11m viewers per episode compared to 3.24m for Tucker Carlson Tonight, which was the highest-viewed primetime cable news show as of 2020 per [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight#Ratings

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What shall we use as a baseline for Comparison? Joy Reid from MSNBC? Would you be ok with that?

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by ravenstine »

geoblack wrote: post #43

The only thing I resent about moving to ebooks from the library is time I wasted on second rate content from the internet. I have seven library cards and I can read almost anything for free. If none have what I want, they will often order it and notify me when it arrives. All from my sweet Gesture chair. Also Kanopy has wonderful classes for free.

I've slowly come to the same conclusion, though partially in the sense of audiobooks. When someone makes a book, even if it's a relatively short one, that usually means they know enough about the subject and have something valuable enough to say, regardless of whether one agrees with or enjoys the content for its entertainment value.

Although there can be good long-ish form content on the internet, there's simply too much incentive to spew loosely connected ideas that aren't fully formed and serve mostly to get attention. And a lot of it really is just chum to get clicks, however nicely it's presented.

The way I see it, written content on the internet went the way of TED talks. I remember a time when TED was popular, at least in my social class, and now it's pretty widely mocked not only for being vapid but by lowering the barrier to entry via TEDx. Medium is a perfect example of this phenomenon.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by paisawalla »

My pipeline of interesting Twitter users/threads to Substack mailing lists has served me well. I recently discovered Google Assistant's "read this article aloud" functionality and it's been amazing to help cut down the backlog of unread newsletter emails. The experience is quite good, makes a newsletter feel almost like a podcast.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by geoblack »

geoblack wrote: post #43

The only thing I resent about moving to ebooks from the library is time I wasted on second rate content from the internet. I have seven library cards and I can read almost anything for free. If none have what I want, they will often order it and notify me when it arrives. All from my sweet Gesture chair. Also Kanopy has wonderful classes for free.

A lot of the Great Courses are on Kanopy. The Archeology is fantastic.
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