Dear Reader
I would like to get to know you better
I’ve been writing here for more than a year and have met several writers and editors. It’s great, I love them, and some even feel like they’re part of my extended family.
But I haven’t met a reader.
I’m sure there are plenty of people out there, in the electronic cloud, who are reading and never writing.
What I would like today is to meet readers.
I would like to know what they think, what makes them click on this story instead of that one, what makes them clap for an article or comment?
- You could say, “look at the homepage, and you’ll see the algorithm’s recommendations; they’re based on the readers’ choices after all.”
- You could say, “just ask yourself, aren’t you reading articles?”
True.
But, also, false.
The algorithm cannot guess what readers want. It can (sort of) only guess what they want more. The algorithm doesn’t create articles and topics out of thin air; it needs inputs.
But these inputs are based only on existing stories. They don’t include what has not been written.
As a reader, I’m biased because I’m also a writer. And I don’t want to know what writers want to read. I want to know what readers want to read.
So, this is my question to the readers out there:
What are the exciting topics that are missing? What’s the one article you would love to read but have never found so far?
Comment, send an email, or reach me on Twitter.
But, please, do tell me! Tell us.
