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Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk?

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Re: Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk?

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Post by justauser »

Pando and TechCrunch, can you guys report on the ground in Syria or Libya or Myanmar (or any place where life is actually happening) regarding the tech/start-up scene? I'd love to actually hear something of interest from you(and not about you) folks for a change.

Re: Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk?

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Post by methoddk »

This is an article that needed to be written. Tech shouldn't be a popularity contest like the attention-deprived "journalists" that were called out in the article. The whole lot of them have a psychological disorder that needs treatment, probably stemming from lack of attention from their peers in high school.

It's fairly clear that the information in TC and/or Pando is biased. Neither should be supported, ever. Stop the popularity contest that these people are turning our passion into!

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

Is there anyway we can describe "cliques" WITHOUT using pornographic terminology like "circle-jerk". Which means a group of men sitting naked in a circle masturbating each other.

It's really awkward to explain these things to average people. What's next? Replacing the word "compensation" with "blow-job"? Or "launching" with "ejaculation"?

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Post by Shank »

I'm more annoyed with the constant barrage of either Facebook, Apple, or Google getting in trouble because of privacy each week. Even when there is really no story at all (conceptual Google Glasses? Privacy! Instagram being bought, despite no TOS changes? Privacy!).

Re: Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk?

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Post by alaskamiller »

I always saw Silicon Valley inevitably being covered and cared about as much as the Hollywood insidery cabal of power and influence.

As much as we believe in the ideas, teams, executions, it's still very much an old boys network. Don't fool yourself otherwise.

The community upturns its nose constantly about gossip or fluff. But you don't get it, that's all there really is. Gossip and fluff. Tech reporting is as dry and pointless. How many times can you rehash someone releasing, fixing, investing, or selling something?

On top of all this we got exactly the tech reporting culture we deserved. People clamor for dispatches from foreign lands, substantial news, authentic stories but here's the real secret... there's no demand for those things.

There is demand to sell ads on pages. There is demand to hire expensive publicists to befriend the journalists that switch from site to site like musical chairs. There is demand for real time updates of something happening because we're digital addicts. Read Silicon Alley Insider for a day and watch how they wring blood out of stone.

The game is rigged. We know to win you adorn your hastily put together A/B-ed MVP LP with TechCrunch and Mashable logos. Or you syphon off mojo storytellers that have consistently the past 5 years been slowly making the story equal part themselves; their backs scratched by everyone eagerly waiting their turn. Be that way long enough and you get dangerously jaded not caring whether it's fingernails or a knife.

If you don't like it, too bad, millions do. And the millions more that's descending into Silicon Valley seeking their fame and fortune do too.

It is what it is.

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