Tech Journo Talk - Editors Desk

Tom answers Marty's followup

Hey Tom!

Thanks for responding today on the Editor's Desk! You mentioned you were open to a follow up so I wanted to say sorry for you having to repeat your explanation here! I've heard your thoughts previously on what you cover on your shows, I was trying to focus my question more on the industry side of things, rather than your shows specifically, so I apologize that I didn't communicate my question clearly! I was more curious your opinion on the industry level, which obviously feeds into the show, but more of a discussion on the industry itself. I don't recall hearing your opinions on the wider industry but I may have just missed it before, so I'm sorry if so!

One of the things I like the most out of DTNS is it exposes me to things I wouldn't come across otherwise, outside of my bubble, and I was more looking at both your thoughts on the types of stories the industry covers as someone who does a lot of research for your shows (and as someone with a lot of experience in the industry in general), and if you had any suggestions for how someone could stay up to date with things like my examples, that aren't getting news coverage - but that may be an impossible question to be fair.

That's more what I was trying to get at, and again, sorry for not coming across properly. Just like I wouldn't expect DTNS to be my sole source of tech news, I wouldn't expect any one source to be sole news source either, but when no news sources are reporting stories like the examples, I'm wondering how would someone stay up to date with these types of stories, particularly for similar stories outside of their bubbles?

On the note of the examples, I did some more digging tonight, and on the Alienware issue there was about a dozen and a half reported cases, whereas the 5090 melting issue there was about a half dozen reported cases. On the Windows update example, I have found about 100 reports over the last two weeks on this issue, and a better comparison for that story would be the 24H2 update issues, which was reported on at the time from various outlets, despite the 24H2 issues having more conflicting reporting over the scope of the issues.

The obvious difference in both cases is that Nvidia is higher profile than Alienware, and a marketed Windows release is higher profile than a random KB update, but I guess that's what got me thinking to ask your thoughts - both of these examples cover very similar topics and coverage areas, but only one example in both cases got reported on which I find interesting.

Anyway, sorry again for getting you to repeat yourself, I just thought it might be a fun topic! Keep up the awesome work!

Take care!

Marty