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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 pyre »

Shank wrote: post #18

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!).

  > Instagram being bought, despite no TOS changes?
  > Privacy!
To be fair, this means that all of the Instagram data becomes a part of Facebooks 'profile' on you. I'm willing to accept a looser TOS when my data is silo'd into many different places that aren't necessarily talking to each other. When all my data becomes consolidated into the same place, I want more strict reins over what happens to it. Much in the same way the rules change for businesses that find themselves in monopoly positions.

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Post by sriramk »

justauser wrote: post #12

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.

To be fair, Sarah Lacy has done more in covering startup ecosystems around the world than any tech journalist I know.

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Post by dasil003 »

alaskamiller wrote: post #19

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 a…

In other words, hate the game not the playa.

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Post by andyking »

jgrahamc wrote: post #25

Personally, I got bored of it long ago and just simply stopped reading. It's not that hard to do.

I'm similar. I never made a conscious decision, or said to myself "right, I'm never reading TechCrunch again," it was just something that sort of happened.

I gradually unsubscribed feeds in Google Reader that were generating too much uninteresting stuff, I stopped visiting sites, I got busy doing things of my own.. and before I knew it, I was tech-blog-free.

It's not like I know any less about what's going on in the world of tech without them; I just get a lot less clutter in my life.

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Post by antr »

andyking wrote: post #27
jgrahamc wrote: post #25

Personally, I got bored of it long ago and just simply stopped reading. It's not that hard to do.

I'm similar. I never made a conscious decision, or said to myself "right, I'm never reading TechCrunch again," it was just something that sort of happened. I gradually unsubscribed feeds in Google Reader that were generating too much uninteresting stuff, I stopped visiting sites, I got busy doing things of my own.. and before I knew it, I was tech-blog-free. It's not like I know any less about what's going on in the…

Same here. I stopped following Siegler, Arrington, Sarah Lacy & co cause their arrogance and writing was just unbearable. They call themselves journalists/bloggers, but all they want is something in exchange for you appearing on their site/feed. That is not journalism.

These guys stopped writing about tech a long time ago, and instead started writing about their close (relational/economic) interests.

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Post by keithpeter »

I'm not sure if I'm adding any value here, but this was the first article linked from HN's front page that have read for a while and which I did not understand what it was about. I have done some research, and I think I understand now.

People who can write well want to get paid for writing. Some kind of business model has to emerge that allows that to happen. Can we assume that advert driven blogging is not that model?

PS: on a netbook, the page design means that I spent some time looking for the actual content.

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