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I agree on the specific numbers and on smaller sites. But on sites as large as engadget I think they can show fairly accurate trending
They really don't, even for large sites. comparison: - http://www.quantcast.com/macrumors.com#traffic (measured) - http://siteanalytics.compete.com/macrumors.com/
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I paraphrase the FBI's cordial letter of November 1964 to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Arrington, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do [it]. … You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Link to said letter?
There's an excerpt on his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. then search the text for "anonymous", and an image of it at http://www.oilempire.us/cointelpro.html
TIME magazine also mentioned the letter in 1975 at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913763,00.h...
Sure, TC Disrupt can go without Arrington, but will you still like it when it starts resembling more of New York fashion show?
On a very basic level, this is the same reason why investors used to dump Apple stock every time Steve took a yet another leave of absence.
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I don't get the vitriolic hate that TechCrunch gets on HN. Sure, it can be trashy at times but it plays a very useful role in the Startp ecosystem. If it didn't exist then either Startups would get a lot less attention or some other publication would fill its place. I think startups getting less attention is - on the balance - a bad thing. If a publication other than TC was publication-of-record then it is difficult…
> or some other publication would fill its place. That's what is and has been desirable for a long time.
Seriously - there are a number of sites that have attempted this, but none have the influence of TechCrunch.
What is it exactly you think these sites should do differently?
This is abhorrently unimportant drama. TC has been a trash rag from the start, and their flaming dramatic burnout is just as trash as everything else they've ever published. Go away already. This is publicity coup 101 shit. DIAF.
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Link to said letter?
I was curious enough about this that I looked into it... There's an excerpt on his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr . then search the text for "anonymous", and an image of it at http://www.oilempire.us/cointelpro.html TIME magazine also mentioned the letter in 1975 at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913763,00.h...
Title: "Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America"
Author: Kotz, Nick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (2005). p. 247.
Access it here: http://books.google.com/?id=qo9r4_rnrasC&pg=PA247
[Looking at this URL again, is this an affiliate URL?]
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I was curious enough about this that I looked into it... There's an excerpt on his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr . then search the text for "anonymous", and an image of it at http://www.oilempire.us/cointelpro.html TIME magazine also mentioned the letter in 1975 at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913763,00.h...
I got curious as well, and your post helped. Just to point more clearly to the source, the cited reference comes from: Title: "Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America" Author: Kotz, Nick Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (2005). p. 247. Access it here: http://books.google.com/?id=qo9r4_rnrasC&pg=PA247 [Looking at this URL again, is this an affiliate URL?]
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973357
basically a TC guy made a honest joke about HP and TC censored itself.
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I don't get the vitriolic hate that TechCrunch gets on HN. Sure, it can be trashy at times but it plays a very useful role in the Startp ecosystem. If it didn't exist then either Startups would get a lot less attention or some other publication would fill its place. I think startups getting less attention is - on the balance - a bad thing. If a publication other than TC was publication-of-record then it is difficult…
>Arrington did a media startup, cashed out and was going to run a VC fund. What's wrong with that? The details in between are what matter. I think most people are just put off by his constant need to interject himself into the stories.
I thought - for example - the whole CrunchPad thing was quite interesting. It was an interesting product, and the posts gave a lot of insight into how hardware businesses worked.
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I paraphrase the FBI's cordial letter of November 1964 to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Arrington, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do [it]. … You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Umm, that was a bit too heavy handed. I wish the man health, long life and prospority. And I wish to myself an internet without his drama.