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Joe.ie & the like

Banjaxed82

What's the future for Joe.ie & the like? - Websites that essentially survive on other people's content. Is it really something that's sustainable going forward?

I notice (especially in the last few months) how these websites are posting and reposting the same stories a few times a day, obviously struggling with lack of content to justify the daily quote of posts they must put online via their various social media sources.

Content is king, and if you create your own (quality) content, you're on to a good one. What will become of these sites?

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Specialun

They defo have an account here and you often see popular threads from there reposted by them few hrs after with similar jokes

louiseber

Specialun wrote: »

They defo have an account here and you often see popular threads from there reposted by them few hrs after with similar jokes

I'd be surprised if the writers for the Journal were not members of Boards, Politics.ie, Reddit /r/ireland etc. "Irish cyberspace" is very small with the same pool of people active across the various Irish fora. That's why we read the exact same quintessentially Irish jokes about Bosco, leaving the immersion on and Glenroe on Boards as we do over at the Journal.

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louiseber wrote: »

That's why we read the exact same quintessentially Irish jokes about Bosco, leaving the immersion on and Glenroe on Boards as we do over at the Journal.

Nostalgia is fucking stupid.

mikom

Ezekiel Most Collarbone wrote: »

Nostalgia is fucking stupid.

I agree.
It's not what it used to be.

RomanKnows

Ezekiel Most Collarbone wrote: »

Nostalgia is fucking stupid.

I fondly remember your disastrous stint as an AH mod. Utterly joyless moderation as one much maligned poster was to pithily observe.

blade1

The Gibzilla wrote: »

Joeie & The Like? These modern band names are rubbish!

True.
I prefer Huey Lewis and the News.

Fred Swanson

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RomanKnows wrote: »

I fondly remember your disastrous stint as an AH mod. Utterly joyless moderation as one much maligned poster was to pithily observe.

Someone needed to crack the whip.

Tarzana2

baz2009 wrote: »

Meh, essay writing, reviewing poetry and learning off Hamlet quotes =/= journalism.

Joe.ie =/= journalism either.

I'm sorry, but anyone who in any way wants to work with words would not be doing pass English. Sub-editors act as quality control but the journalists themselves should have excellent grammar/spelling etc. What the sub-editor needs to fix should be as little as possible.

A tad depressing that people don't think that a budding journalist should have exemplary knowledge of grammar/spelling/syntax.

Tarzana2

Ezekiel Most Collarbone wrote: »

Nostalgia is fucking stupid.

A backlash against nostalgia seems to gaining pace lately. Not sure where this has come from, maybe nostalgia fatigue.

Meanwhile, research seems to point to nostalgia being very good for mental well-being, rather than hold us back:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/science/what-is-nostalgia-good-for-quite-a-bit-research-shows.html?pagewanted=all