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How about ignoring the tiresome commentators, and the tiresome commentators complaining about other tiresome commentators.
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Nick C. I know Mike pretty well too, including your history with him.He is a shithead of the highest order. Just because he put up with your nonsense doesnt make him special. The article is dead on.
The irony in the OP is that he is a blogger criticizing another blogger for poor quality and his own post is complete shit. A proper critique of Techcrunch would look more like this: Take some real traffic and social network stats Take a sample of stories from 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 years ago and compare volume, subject matter, stories about startups to show a trend in topics covered, etc. Produce a nice graph showing how the…
On one hand you claim inaccuracies are "2%" and acceptable, and that a few phone calls is enough research before going to press. On the other hand you demand a 6-point research project before someone can even begin to criticize TC in turn.
Where is your six-point research project backing up why "his own post is complete shit"? I have no opinion either way -- but I believe you're applying very different standards of proof.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-f...
I've sent this article to numerous GSI's (Berkeley jargon for a TA) and professors and they were blown away as well. Even my Dad, someone who is a hardcore WSJ guy and doesn't read many blogs enjoyed it immensely.
I'm at Berkeley now, and I need to meet this guy, yet I have no idea how to go about doing so. Perhaps I should just shoot him an email and let him know that our passions are in line? Unfortunately he may be a little busy for 1 on 1 time with a freshman, but it can't hurt.
How about ignoring the tiresome commentators, and the tiresome commentators complaining about other tiresome commentators.
Can someone point me in the general direction of whomever started this "Why X is X" headline meme, so I can hop in my 80's plutonium powered Eurocar and beat the shit out of them?
It's lazy, it's trite, and it's poor form in writing.
I found this quote to be pretty good: "If it was not for MG Siegler (Apple fanboyism aside) and Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch would be a content-free environment. The rest of the writing has become incredibly self-referential and stale. Paul Carr has the magical ability to consistently write articles that say nothing other than what he did yesterday. Sarah Lacy keeps writing about startups in Indonesia that no one care…
Vivek Wadwha needs to start his own (regularly updated) blog, or start writing posts for The Startup Foundry. His content is just on a whole new level compared to the other posts on TC. Here is a recent post he wrote that completely blew me away: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-f... I've sent this article to numerous GSI's (Berkeley jargon for a TA) and professors and they were blown away a…
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This has nothing to do with personalities or personal issues, I am rating him professionally in the scope of being a blogger.
Thats fine. Professionally he's a hack. All insider info from pals. He bullies and tries to scare people. I've seen it many times. Plus its all personal with him. He does hit jobs on companies and people he doesnt like.The guys a wannabee journo. Just another lawyer who hated it.
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The irony in the OP is that he is a blogger criticizing another blogger for poor quality and his own post is complete shit. A proper critique of Techcrunch would look more like this: Take some real traffic and social network stats Take a sample of stories from 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 years ago and compare volume, subject matter, stories about startups to show a trend in topics covered, etc. Produce a nice graph showing how the…
That is a much, much higher standard than TechCrunch itself seems to use. On one hand you claim inaccuracies are "2%" and acceptable, and that a few phone calls is enough research before going to press. On the other hand you demand a 6-point research project before someone can even begin to criticize TC in turn. Where is your six-point research project backing up why "his own post is complete shit"? I have no opinion…
I worked for TC for a long time and lived and worked in the same house as Mike for almost 4 years, so I know how he works very well. First, Compete totally gets Techcrunch traffic wrong. Not only the numbers, but the trends would totally not match up with our own internal Google Analytics, and even the data such as top referrers etc. were way off. Compete should not be used as supporting evidence that Techcrunch is f…