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Charles Arthur
Personal blog · charlesarthur.com/bloghardwarewriting
Charles Arthur's personal blog at charlesarthur.com covers hardware and writing. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Charles Arthur's writing as Technology Editor of the Guardian, on PR and the state of tech journalism, and compare it with newsroom tech coverage from the NYT and WSJ.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
How interesting, I was just reading some articles [1] [2] about learning to think like a programmer and program. Both mention how beneficial it is for journalists to code and think like a coder. While they mainly talk about saving time with repetitive tasks or compiling/understanding complex data, I suppose now its good for job security too ... [1] http://infovore.org/archives/2009/01/22/learning-to-think-li... [2]…
Comment linking /blog/?p=1098
on “AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team”Submitted Die, PR, die, or raise your game and learn about asynchronicity (Technology Editor of the Guardian) as a story · 2 points
HN discussiongreat read when you compare this to the nyt attempt at tech ( http://allthingsd.com/ ) & this post on Wall St. Journal's new tech-news site ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=26581 I can't help notice the differences in background in the Guardian tech editor ( http://www.charlesarthur.com/cv.php ) & wsj eds ( http://allthingsd.com/about/ )
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on “Die, PR, die, or raise your game and learn about asynchronicity (Technology Editor of the Guardian)”