techcrunch

TechCrunch: journalism's heretics? Members Public

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/09/mgsieglerhs-2057.html] MG Siegler of TechCrunch [http://www.techcrunch.com] has published a really fascinating post [http://parislemon.com/post/9859907607/its-not-a-mirror-its-a-crystal-ball] on his personal blog, responding to the current brouhaha around Mike Arrington, TechCrunch and AOL [http://parislemon.com/post/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
editing

What AOL and SAY: Media have in common: a platform Members Public

When the two acquisitions of the week meet: AOL’s new purchase TechCrunch [http://gigaom.com/2010/09/28/nailed-it-aol-bought-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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
AOL

Creative Commons Errors: Getting It Right Members Public

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 using other people’s photographs in

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
creative commons

Le Web: The Platform Roundtable Members Public

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 they come up with great things.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Tech Aggregator Techmeme gets Human Editor Members Public

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 [http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/03/news-aggregator-techmeme-melds-algorithms-and-humans/] . Techcrunch argues that the inclusion of a human

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
aggregation

Making Comments into a Community Members Public

Techcrunch UK highlights some emerging companies that are attempting to build blog comments into something more of a community feature [http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/suddenly-blog-comments-is-a-hot-space/]. Six Apart are working on a community solution for Movable Type [http://www.movabletype.com/products/community-solution.html]. There’s something interesting

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
commenters

Le Web 3: Loïc est mort? Members Public

Loïc Le Meur is dead [http://www.wideo.fr/video/iLyROoaftZHm.html]*(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 [http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2006/12/sam_sethi.html]. *not

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
leweb

Sam Sethi posting again Members Public

Sam Sethi, late of TechCrunch UK (itself possibly late…) is posting again on his own blog, Vecosys.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging