Did he mean to say "Techcruch are full of shit" instead of "Techcrunch is full of shit?" Is there an inside joke I'm missing?
I don't think it's a joke - I just read it as a Britishism.
Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
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#12Did he mean to say "Techcruch are full of shit" instead of "Techcrunch is full of shit?" Is there an inside joke I'm missing?
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#14Last.FM FTW, seriously TechCrunch is getting worse and worse every week.
I (obviously) agree. You might see some reticence to post here though, as TC is a bit of a cabal and nobody with a public profile wants to shake the cage.
I have a public profile, and long ago dismissed TechCrunch as one of the least intelligent blogs on the Internet. The writing is bad, the content is boring, and now we know it's not even correct.
Go away, TechCrunch.
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#15This makes me think about that TechCrunchee getting spit on the face... I'd now like to get the spitter's side of the story.
I think the idea is that in order for your startup to succeed, you need TechCrunch to like it. The spitter probably got a bad review.
(Anyway, I don't think this is important. Very few people with money to spend have ever heard of TechCrunch. Their opinion mostly matters in the VC echo chamber, not in the real world.)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
In British English company names act as plural nouns.
I usually do this, and editors always want to change it. I never realized it was an English thing.
Either is correct in American English, but it may violate a style guidelines. It generally hinges on whether you consider Techcrunch a group of people or a monolithic entity.
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#17I'm chuffed that a respectable outfit like last.fm publishes a blog post with a title like that. About time. Techcrunch has been on the inflection point of "mattering" to the wider public, which scares the life out of me!
It's not even grammatically correct!
"Techcrunch is full of shit" would be right.
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#18If people didn't like Techcrunch, they wouldn't go to the site. If Techcrunch was irrelevant, they wouldn't generate massive leads for pet projects that people create.
There was an article a week or so ago about how people were complaining every time Techcrunch posted a story about some Twitter application. The author of the article wrote back in protest basically saying, "well if you don't like the articles, don't comment on them."
Techcrunch generates buzz. They're good at it. I may live in a hole, but I didn't really hear about Last.fm until Techcrunch posted that story. Last.fm got a pageview from me off of that story.
And personally, I don't really care about TC's opinion. I'm smart enough to make my own judgment. But until they report it, I have little way discovering new companies.
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#19I'm chuffed that a respectable outfit like last.fm publishes a blog post with a title like that. About time. Techcrunch has been on the inflection point of "mattering" to the wider public, which scares the life out of me!
It's not even grammatically correct! "Techcrunch is full of shit" would be right.
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#20It finally happened. Techcrunch is the new Valleywag.