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Rockbox gets large mention in PC Plus magazine

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linuxstb:
It's amusing how most of the recent "articles" about Rockbox seem to devote a large amount of space to reproducing the installation instructions for the ipod. instead of the author of the article actually doing some work and writing some original content.  The instructions are also out of date by the time they are printed...

psycho_maniac:
If I was on the rockbox team Id thing that this publicity is better then no publicity. Wouldn't you think?

saratoga:
We really need to get some sort of press link/page/email/etc setup so that they contact us before writing the article.

Llorean:
"Any publicity is good publicity" applies to things where all you need is interest.

One interesting thing about Rockbox is that nobody gets paid. So, for example, any time I spend in these forums providing technical support, etc, is time I can't be spending pursuing other interests of mine. When an article full of misinformation goes out, that has a tendency to increase the support load, because people assume the article is correct and use it as their primary source of information for installing or setting up Rockbox.

Even if only a small percentage of people who've read the article do this, it still results in increased traffic to the support channels, and increased time by myself and the other volunteers to try to resolve issues, or even simply sign on, say "Please read the manual" and sign back out again.

So while any publicity is good publicity, articles that get things significantly wrong (moreso than this one does, as I said, overall it's quite good) do have a negative impact to an extent as well.

It's definitely good to spread the name of Rockbox around and attract more attention, for the project as a whole, but for the support personally it'd be really, really nice if articles avoided posting specific instructions that may or may not be valid by the time they're published.

GodEater:

--- Quote from: linuxstb on March 11, 2007, 07:36:11 PM ---It's amusing how most of the recent "articles" about Rockbox seem to devote a large amount of space to reproducing the installation instructions for the ipod. instead of the author of the article actually doing some work and writing some original content.  The instructions are also out of date by the time they are printed...

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Damn right - I think we should email the magazine and ask for a cut of whatever they paid the journalist to cut and paste our instructions into his article!

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