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Re^4: Fix the Perl News header
by petdance (Parson) on Mar 26, 2012 at 18:33 UTC
    That's right. It's curated.

    If all that a feed does is aggregate, without distinction, everything posted from a given blog source, then it's not news. It's an unintelligent dump.

    Besides, there's no such thing as "unbiased." Everything involves human decisions at some level.

    xoxo,
    Andy

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Re^4: Fix the Perl News header
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 26, 2012 at 19:35 UTC

    By this logic the Perl News section on Perl Monks is itself invalid.

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      I'd like to see some discussion on the value of Perlbuzz. I don't care whether it's hand-curated, or what. Does it have any value as a "Perl news" source? If so, I'll add it back in.

      I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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        I just took a quick look and I do not see what the problem is. Is there some political agenda being pushed by him, or some feathers he rustled, or....? Update: Duh! I see petdance is Andy! So a fellow Monk is putting a good list of new articles of interest together and we have a problem with including a link to that site?? Problem seems to be NOT including it.

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        1+

        /me looks up perlbuzz regularly. It's useful.

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        Perlbuzz the blog has become mostly an aggregation of @perlbuzz the Twitter feed, but I run actual articles there every so often as well.

        The Twitter feed had 1,745 followers, and perlbuzz.com has 4,567 subscribers of the RSS feed via FeedBurner.

        Whether it's a good news source or not is of course subjective, it certainly seems that many people use it.

        xoxo,
        Andy

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