Free Post editing TechCrunch: journalism's heretics? MG Siegler of TechCrunch has published a really fascinating post on his personal blog, responding to the current brouhaha around Mike Arrington, TechCrunch and AOL. I’m less interested in the corporate politics of the debate than I am in just how differently the
Free Post AOL What AOL and SAY: Media have in common: a platform When the two acquisitions of the week meet: AOL’s new purchase TechCrunch talking to the new CEO of SAY:Media: Let’s be honest, that’s a great example of how talking heads video can be dull, but there is some interesting content
Free Post creative commons Creative Commons Errors: Getting It Right There’s a good rule of thumb in life: everyone makes mistakes. If you subscribe to that, you tend to allow people chance to correct their mistakes, and it’s in that situation that you’ll discover their true character.Take the issue of
Free Post facebook Le Web: The Platform Roundtable David Jacobs of Six Apart argued that treating developers well is important, because it allows you to get traction for your platform. But Ethan Beard of Facebook says that user experience has to come before developers. And developers will come up with problems before
Free Post aggregation Tech Aggregator Techmeme gets Human Editor Hmm. Automated tech news aggregator Techmeme is about to become slightly less automated. Venture Beat reports that a veteran tech journo will now rearrange and generally improve the results coming out of the aggregation algorithm. Techcrunch argues that the inclusion of a human undermines
Free Post commenters Making Comments into a Community Techcrunch UK highlights some emerging companies that are attempting to build blog comments into something more of a community feature. Six Apart are working on a community solution for Movable Type. There’s something interesting developing here…
Free Post leweb Le Web 3: Loïc est mort? Loïc Le Meur is dead* (knowledge of French handy, if you follow that link) And, through a blogging medium, no doubt, he speaks from beyond the grave on the Sam Sethi issue. *not really
Free Post blogging Sam Sethi posting again Sam Sethi, late of TechCrunch UK (itself possibly late…) is posting again on his own blog, Vecosys.
Free Post blogging Le Web 3: Blogstorm reaches a fourth stage Today I’ve realised that there are multiple stages to a really good blog storm. Criticism Pile on the band wagon Defenders wade in The rise of humour We’ve clearly just reached stage 4. Boris pointed me towards this very unofficial merchandise. And
Free Post journalism Le Web 3: Mike Arrington Explains Sam Sethi Situation Mike Arrington has put up a long post on CrunchNotes explaining why Sam Sethi was sacked, from his point of view. It’s a very different one to the story Sethi has been promoting: The actions that resulted in his dismissal were additional comments
Free Post leweb Le Web 3: Sam Sethi Fired? Mystery deepens… Pat Phelan at Roam4free has confirmed that the “disappearing post” I noticed in the TechCrunch UK feed earlier does indeed mean that Sam Sethi has been fired for his posts about Le Web 3. Update: OK, now this post has vanished. What the hell
