editing
[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/
AOL
When the two acquisitions of the week meet: AOLās new purchase TechCrunch [http://gigaom.com/2010/09/28/nailed-it-aol-bought-techcrunch/] talking to the new CEO of SAY:Media: Letās be honest, thatās a great example of how talking heads video can be dull, but there is some interesting
creative commons
Thereās 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 itās in that situation that youāll discover their true character. Take the issue of using other peopleās photographs in
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.
aggregation
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 aggregationĀ algorithm [http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/03/news-aggregator-techmeme-melds-algorithms-and-humans/] . Techcrunch argues that the inclusion of a human
commenters
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]. Thereās something interesting
leweb
LoĆÆc 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
Blogging
Sam Sethi, late of TechCrunch UK (itself possibly lateā¦) is posting again on his own blog, Vecosys.
Blogging
Today Iāve realised that there are multiple stages to a really good blog storm. 1. Criticism 2. Pile on the band wagon 3. Defenders wade in 4. The rise of humour Weāve clearly just reached stage 4. Boris [http://www.bomega.com/] pointed me towards this very unofficial
Journalism
Mike Arrington has put up a long post on CrunchNotes explaining why Sam Sethi was sacked, from his point of view. Itās a very different one to the story Sethi has been promoting: The actions that resulted in his dismissal were additional comments he wrote on that second post,
leweb
Pat Phelan at Roam4free has confirmed that the ādisappearing postā 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 is going on here? Update 2:
