Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but the excitement of the early PC days in part for me was both the great magazines of PC Magazine, PC World, Byte, etc. And the controlled-circulation mags like InfoWorld, PC Week, etc. And later, as the Internet blew onto the scene, from Internet World to Interactive Week (anyone remember that one?)
Some of those publications live on, and of course have turned great focus onto AI. But while I know there are 1,000s of newsletters, many reporting the same stuff each day/week and trying to get you to subscribe, and there are a few AI-focused websites of varying quality - maybe the publishing industry can't go there any more. I've bought some AI special editions, and they're nice, and there are newsreaders and some odd, clunky "digital magazine creators" - no one is putting it all together in one attractive package, fueled of course by AI's immense scraping ability and the potential for a constantly updated mix of the biggest and the latest news in this amazing sphere.
Maybe it's the same reason we don't just have 2-3-4 networks or news sources any more, it's the atomization of everything. Call me hopelessly wistful, even naive, but is anyone aware of an attractive platform or tool that will create a great-looking 'magazine' of the latest AI news - not a grid of feeds, but the 'feel' of an edited, curated magazine/publication? (I'd love to read one! Heck, I'd maybe love to write for one! But maybe I need to just use those tools I've already dabbled in - check out http://thenowedition.floot.app - to make one happen, just for me. We don't all watch the same things any more, so I guess we don't read the same things, either. The bottomless newsletter sea gets sort of old.
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