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''The Register'' has run Simon Travaglia 's BOFH stories since 2000. Comment pieces are included along with the news, such as "Bootnotes" and "Opinion". Letters and "Flames of the Week" are often run, and as well as carrying its own content, licensed articles from other sites are included to augment their coverage. ''The Register'' aspires to provide an Objective Viewpoint , and most subjective pieces are labelled as such. The Register frequently uses Sarcasm in their articles, meaning that the language used is closer to that of British Tabloid newspapers than other technology websites. Much to the amusement of its readers, ''The Register'' occasionally runs articles satirizing selected people (e.g. Captain Cyborg , aka Kevin Warwick ). The Register has been a frequent critic of Wikipedia and those that have spoken out in favour of Wikipedia. Its recent articles have blasted '' Nature '' and its study on the accuracy of Wikipedia. IN-JOKES ''The Register'' is famous for its many long-running In-jokes :
Many readers take The Register's spoof articles seriously. To the amusement of The Register's regular readers, their anger-filled letters are commonly published a few days later. Many of these letters are left un-edited leaving in misspellings, grammatical errors and errors in logic that often show that the Internet encourages intelligent people to get angry and make mistakes or allow stupid people to get angry and communicate. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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