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TechCrunch hypes the Google Phone, contradicts itself repeatedly

December 12, 2009

TechCrunch‘s coverage of the so-called “Google Phone” really is turning into something of a joke. Today, it’s probably reached a new low. First up, Erick Schonfeld claims that current “reports” confirm their own original excitable post, quoting this bit: “There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is [...]

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Why the CrunchPad mattered (to bozos)

December 2, 2009

John Biggs at TechCrunch writes a self-serving blog post on “Why the CrunchPad mattered“: “Think about what happened: if we reduce this to its component parts you have some dudes in California who talked to some dudes in Singapore and who agreed to work together on a piece of hardware. I’ve seen the prototypes and the [...]

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Seth Finkelstein nails why TechCrunch sucks in one line

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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TechCrunch: Irresponsible journalism

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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Paul Carr on Mike Arrington and copyright

May 27, 2008

Paul Carr writes a brilliant response to Mike Arrington’s idiotic post on reforming copyright law (by which he means "killing it"): "But for all the fancy talk about “finding new business models” to “remove friction”, which is the thrust of Arrington’s argument (in the same way as Rohypnol – and try not to wince at [...]

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