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November Archived
1 December 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 11 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 16 Features, 11 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 157 items of interest), one review and one site note for a total of 56 stories.
Of those, 22 stories included 95 images. We marked two holidays and published one story with gear specifications. There was one obituary as well.
READERSHIP stats (with a day left uncounted) showed some marked improvements. Pages improved 115 percent, exceeding well over half a million stories. Unique sites also improved 117 percent.
TOP STORIES were led by our Canon lens announcement followed by three Around The Horn columns and then the Helen Marcus obituary. The second five were led by a Horn followed by our matinee of Bea Nettles, another Horn, our annual Fall Back story and a Horn.
We do follow up our reviews with our long-term experience and this month we experienced a failure of our Manfrotto reader that led to a revised conclusion. It also illustrated model behavior for customer support.
WE'VE BEEN UPDATING our hardware this year, starting with an M2 laptop and, this month, including an iPhone 15. They replaced models that were over 10 and nearly 10 years old. So envy is not particularly appropriate.
We've found it a bit difficult to finish a few reviews that are nearly done. We don't want to short them. But getting an extensive block of time to finish them has been impossible.
But we are apparently not alone in that. As the online photographic community continues to shrink, it also has become less productive. Sites that published daily have cut back to weekly posts. And some have simply stopped publishing, while leaving the sites up as if they were still alive.
We find that disconcerting. But also not reflective of the business. There's a lot going still. Just fewer people dedicated to bringing you the news. Who are, we are finding, often confused with "influencers."
One day, perhaps soon, we'll go dark, too. But until then, no whimpers from Photo Corners. We'll keep banging the drum.