June 27, 2009
Image via CrunchBase This morning I was thinking back to the days when writing news was my primary vocation. A long time before Apple released its Intel version of OS X – in the phase when it was questioning the sanity of any reporter who claimed it was working on one – I was chatting [...]
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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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