February 24, 2009
In a comment on Rogers Cadenhead’s blog, Seth Finkelstein perfectly captures what the deeper reason behind the TechCrunch/Last.fm poor reporting is: “The basic problem is that there’s no profit (from attention) in being right, but there is in being first.” The first post on a topic gets most of the inbound links, most of the [...]
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February 23, 2009
The TechCrunch/Last.fm controversy has been all over the net over the weekend, and there’s not much that I can add to it factually. The one thing I will say, though, is that TechCrunch has behaved irresponsible: not so much for the original story – everyone gets it wrong sometimes. But when you get it wildly [...]
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