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Are Journalists Biased?
Everyone who is anyone in the blogosphere has read the stories about Mike Arrington and his investment policy update. We’ve read hundreds of offshoot posts and Tweets, all of which point fingers and take sides. You’ve seen the articles proclaiming that the author would never, EVER! allow themselves to be compromised or biased in any [...]
TechCrunch and AOL: A Match Made in Heaven?
The web has exploded with news of AOL purchasing TechCrunch. Instead of rushing to throw a blurb here on my blog, I wanted to take time to read what everyone else is saying. What are people thinking about this massive merger of minds? Is the tech blog world as we know it about to end? [...]
No Angel Secrets in the Valley After All
The biggest buzz on the Internet yesterday was Michael Arringtons’ post regarding a secret meeting involving ten of the most important VCs found in the Valley. Rumors flew fast. Speculation surrounded every word written. The people involved in the meeting were condemned before we even knew who they were. Yet, a few of us were [...]
Super Sleuth Mike Arrington Uncovers a Plot – or Does He?
I know from talking to people in our community that all of you either absolutely love Michael Arrington – or you hate him. Either way, you have to hand it to the guy today: he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is on the side of what is right. Is he always [...]
Unlock Your Hotel Room with Your Cell Phone
I hate traveling. I love the places that I visit and the people I interact with when I get there. It’s the actual travel part that gets to me every time. There’s always such a rush to do everything, you know? Checking into my hotels is probably my least favorite task. God love ‘em for [...]
Bartz Curses Arrington at TechCrunch Disrupt
Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz participated in a cozy little chat with TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington earlier today during TechCrunch Disrupt. True to himself, Michael opened the chat by asking Carol “So how the fuck are you?” Niceties aside, Arrington got down to the nitty gritty. There have been a couple of major changes over at [...]
The Seattle Social Community is Growing
Ever since I moved here to Seattle, I’ve talked to all of you about how much I love it here. I love the people, the weather and the city itself. There are so many amazing people and companies within a short distance of where I live, and being able to network with them face-to-face is [...]
Goodbye iFrame Toolbar – Hello Sites Now Unbanned on Digg.
Things sure are shaking up around the Digg offices this week. On his first official day as CEO, Kevin Rose has laid out a few interesting changes which should vastly improve the popular social networking site. The DiggBar we have all come to hate is going to finally disappear in the upcoming version of the [...]
Are Online Reputations Really Dead?
Michael Arrington recently posted an article on TechCrunch discussing online reputations. Reputation Is Dead: It’s Time To Overlook Our Indiscretions seems to be Arrington’s way of laying it on the proverbial line, and giving up the ghosts of his past. He feels strongly that in the very near future, we won’t care so much about [...]
Is There Too Much Noise in Social Media?
An article over on TechCrunch today sparks an interesting thought. Michael Arrington states that “The online social landscape today sort of feels to me like search did in 1999. It’s a mess, but we don’t complain much about it because we don’t know there’s a better way.”. He continues that rationale by discussing how things [...]
The Other Mike from TechCrunch
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you’re not following Mike Butcher on Twitter, you’re missing out! He writes for TechCrunch – but only for a specific part! Mike and I ran into each other at the [re]Think Hawaii conference recently, and had to talk about social [...]
Memetracker Hacker
Because I didn’t know how to effectively game the system, our TechMeme hacking efforts at Gnomedex fell on silent algorithms. I wrote about the new “Windows Live Writer” earlier, but I’m not showing up in TechMeme’s current list o’ Live links. Gabe might hate me for 0wning TechMeme in Google (currently #1). I haven’t visited [...]
