I have been a fan for many years. His comments on the vile influence of the algorithm and AI are right on target.
Google recently informed me that the SolderSmoke blog has "Low Value Content." Well, consider the source!
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I think Veritasium has made a good choice.
Three cheers for Veritasium!
Low value for adds, not content... Not all content is rewarded with expensive adds....
ReplyDeleteExactly my friend; not everything good is monetized. Some things are done because they need to be done, like Soldersmoke.
DeleteI hope Derek Muller doesn't retire from Veritasium, he has the unique way of explaining even the most complex subject in a way any layman can comprehend. He gives the justifications for his future plans in that video, and we wish him well. But these are really big shoes to fill and I am not sure how well the future presenters will do. Then again....Alex had his Ken and Pat had his Ryan...
ReplyDeleteGlad to see he is growing and diversifying. Yes, the algorithm exists and new challenges
ReplyDeleteevolve but you can still make high quality content. The bottom line is what are you doing to provide new ideas and to grow your blog or channel? The "same old" "same old" will not cope. Blaming the algorithm is easier to do.
Seek out content experts on your own too. In Ham radio, many experts have but one or two QST "old" articles or "used to have a popular web site back in the day". If you email these Hams they can provide expertise via old fashioned emails. I do this and have learned so much from many content experts who are all but forgotten Hams.
Happy New Years from Lütz!!
makes sense.behind every successful hobbyist blog or Utube is lots of hard work
DeleteLutz: Please send us the link to your blog, the one with all the new ideas and content and growth and diversification and all that. The blog that is derived from your e-mailing forgotten hams. It sounds great! What is the URL? How long have you been doing this? How's the algorithim treating you? Please tell us more!
DeleteLutz. learn from masters is a good idea that I also went to it in 2024,25. I like VHF.UHF.SHF homebrew. Modern non-digital HF is mostly cookbook now. I like the aspect of analog and digital design plus maths.
DeleteI tried to contact many of VHF Communications quarterly writers. It stopped publishing in 2013. Plus
other amateur VHF magazines I had that were popular with VHF until mid 2000 in Europe.
Some writers went to silent keys. RIP brothers. Writers may now be quite old and retired from radio amateur status or even in old folks home. But with peristence I found 3 writers. 1 actually I met and he gave me parts collection for a small cost plus some of his reference books and also old source code written for Windows 7 era. My friend may be able to rewrite his code in Python to me. Most is for design work of homebrew filters, transverter circuits, prescalers,LNA matching. For me this brings happiness and VHF homebrew design is now abandoned. HNY! P. Beckmann
I bet forgotten authors enjoy contact from a live person in 2025/26
DeleteBrilliant Lutz. As a lad I wrote by post to authors & editors until the late 1990s before email rolled out. But then I emailed authors, however, I just stopped for no good reason. Writing folks seems more wholesome and friendly than AI. With mag or rag word max counts, much valuable knowledge is left off technical articles. These authors' accumulated know-how is soon gone for yonks.
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