Why I often do not link to Groklaw
January 16, 2007Can someone please tell me why everybody is so lyrical about Groklaw? I absolutely detest Groklaw; however, not for its content, but for its style. Or better yet, lack thereof.
We all get taught in school that when writing an essay, paper, article, or whatever, you have to structure it. You write an introduction in which you explain what you will be talking about, and most often the ‘why’ as well. After the introduction, in the body, you give the meat of the article, in a structured manner, presenting one topic per paragraph. In the conclusion, you give the, well, conclusion, without presenting any new information.
Groklaw rarely uses these basic rules, making it very hard for me to actually grasp all the information they are presenting me with. They are giving a shitload of information without actually structuring it.
People on OSNews sometimes complain why I often do not link to Groklaw; trust me, it has nothing to do with content. It has to do with the form.
I haven’t really missed Groklaw at OSNews, neven even thought about it actually. But why would you want OSNews readers to miss out on a great story at Groklaw just because of the form? I agree to some extent about the presentation of content, but to ignore the articles because of it doesn’t make any sense to me.
Comment by Carl — January 16, 2007 @ 8:53 pm