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I need some help to comprehend this... How is it that an article could come out yesterday and say while comparing online storage options that "Omnidrive seems to be ahead of the pack. It goes beyond storage to full read and write of files online, making it easy for users to share files with other users in a collaborative manner."
Granted, it neither recommends nor discourages using Omnidrive. Instead, merely speaks of what Omnidrive promises. I am not a tech blogger or a journalist... but to me I would assume one could easily research a service such as Omnidrive and find numerous discouraging articles in the past few months (check topix or google news). I know if it was me and I had done my research, that I could not in good conscience, without trying a service, recommend it to others.
Maybe a more experienced tech-writer hopefully could shed some light on what goes in to writing an article. Is it unfair to ask a journalist/blogger to research and refrain from recommending questionable services? I speak as a consumer and know that if I was a long time reader of a website and they spoke highly of a service I would blindly pay good money to use the service based on faith. I know because I did. I paid money within 1 day of testing to use Omnidrive based on a tech article written which praised the service. Luckily I did get my money back after weeks of pestering. I don't know, I think I am venting at this point... but is it unfair to ask a journalist/blogger to know enough about a service before referencing it in an article... or is simply visiting the company website's 'about' section good enough research?
The article I am referencing can be found here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/technology/managingtechnology/web20columnistfrankbell/article189742.html
Wow... that's an amazing lack of research...
I guess we could bring the issues to light, but comments aren't enabled, and I did see how we can contact the author.
Yeah, I agree with you. That's just bad journalism
looks like the same article was syndicated to MSNBC.com:
