Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" • Hacker News Board

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by Harkins » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 2:07 PM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #85

josefresco wrote: post #27

And just like that, there's a whole new audience for TechCrunch that never existed. "Thanks Last.fm for all the free PR" Sincerely, M.A.

Except that this Last.FM post is currently the number 3 result in Google for "TechCrunch", with its title prominently displayed. Oops.

That's just Google giving prominent placement to something they see as breaking news. It'll disappear in a week or so, then reappear somewhere much lower in a few more weeks as it's normally indexed by their crawler picking up links and rebuilding its graph.

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by physcab » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 3:01 PM UTC

giles_bowkett wrote: post #77

physcab wrote: post #18

If 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 c…

If 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. these points are both true, but they don't alter the fact that Techcrunch is also full of shit.

If they are, why do people post TC articles on here every few hours?

I typically don't advise people to read articles that are full of shit.

I think people who whine about TC articles and think they are full of shit are in the minority. Their fan base seems to be growing rapidly. You can't impress everyone with your writing. And besides, TC is a blog. I think you're entitled to say whatever you want, even if its full of shit.

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by rationalbeaver » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 4:19 PM UTC

electromagnetic wrote: post #61

CalmQuiet wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And if you get any news from bbc.co.uk or read British bloggers you'll get accustomed to sports teams and corporations being considered plural. e.g.: "Apple today are releasing..."

Well it's accurate, a corporation isn't an individual and when you're dealing with big business it is always controlled by multiple people so any decision is decided by a group.

Actually a corporation is, legally, an individual.

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 4:48 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #58

chiffonade wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, you're wrong. The concept of corporate singularity started in the 1600s in England. From wikipedia: In the late seventeenth century, Stewart Kyd, the author of the first treatise on corporate law in English, defined a corporation as, "a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested, by policy of the law, with the…

actually, it started in Holland with the V.O.C.

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Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by chiffonade » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 4:54 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #94

jacquesm wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

actually, it started in Holland with the V.O.C.

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I said that it started in the 1600s in England, not that they invented it.

And don't be facetious, everyone knows the Dutch were very innovative during the slave trade.

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by chops » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 5:12 PM UTC

ErrantX wrote: post #88

The most disappointing thing is that the TC writer is clinging to his story. After a complete denial he is still trying to suggest there is some truth in the rumor. Either produce the hard evidence or apologise.

Link?

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by dustineichler » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 6:06 PM UTC

j2d2 wrote: post #17

gstar wrote: post #2

I'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.

Noticed this too, but I think grammatically he used "are" in the inclusive sense that everyone at techcrunch _is_ full of sh*t. therefore, if you work their... it must be so.

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by macco » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 9:02 PM UTC

wheels wrote: post #72

vaksel wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so who is the new techcrunch?

I vote for ReadWriteWeb. More level writing, more focused on web startups, feels a little nerdier.

They are not much better.

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by lutorm » Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 9:48 PM UTC

rationalbeaver wrote: post #93

electromagnetic wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it's accurate, a corporation isn't an individual and when you're dealing with big business it is always controlled by multiple people so any decision is decided by a group.

Actually a corporation is, legally, an individual.

Unless I'm mistaken, that absurd notion is only entertained in the US.

Re: Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Post by alain94040 » Wed, Feb 25, 2009, 5:36 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #14

gstar wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Boring it's not.

Frankly, I'm disappointed by this thread. HN's audience is supposedly smarter than your average Internet crowd. But all I'm hearing here is cheap bashing of the target that everyone loves to hate. Can anyone do better and post an intelligent comment that addresses the topic?

Again, TechCrunch is not boring. One of its strengths is not so much the "breaking news" aspect, but the tongue-in-cheek or tell-it-like-it-is.

In many news organizations, politically correct has removed any spark of interesting content. Not at TechCrunch. It's news with an attitude. You may or may not like the attitude, but at least there's one.

[disclaimer: you can accuse me of bias because of my company connections to TC, but it also means that I got to see some of the behind the scenes and I learned a lot doing so]