The upside is that it’s the only way to get EA-themed articles into major venues. Wiki pages are only for folks who are interested in the topic already. To get EA-themed ideas to folks who are not already interested in it, news angles are crucial. Then, these can link to more long-term content like Wiki pages or other EA-themed content.
In other words, this focus on news events serves a different and in many ways an orthogonal function to Wiki pages and other such durable content (called evergreen content in marketing lingo, if you’re curious). So both types of content are needed.
We currently have plenty of evergreen content as a movement. We don’t have content that goes to a broad audiences and attracts them to this content. That’s what the breaking news articles do.
If you or anyone else is curious to learn more about the topic, I recommend this book.
Agreed on this downside.
The upside is that it’s the only way to get EA-themed articles into major venues. Wiki pages are only for folks who are interested in the topic already. To get EA-themed ideas to folks who are not already interested in it, news angles are crucial. Then, these can link to more long-term content like Wiki pages or other EA-themed content.
In other words, this focus on news events serves a different and in many ways an orthogonal function to Wiki pages and other such durable content (called evergreen content in marketing lingo, if you’re curious). So both types of content are needed.
We currently have plenty of evergreen content as a movement. We don’t have content that goes to a broad audiences and attracts them to this content. That’s what the breaking news articles do.
If you or anyone else is curious to learn more about the topic, I recommend this book.