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Winer on TechCrunch
October 22, 2007 |
I stayed out of the blogosphere for most of the day, but I just came across this post by Dave Winer about TechCrunch:
When Mike was starting TechCrunch, I pointed to his blog all the time, with glowing praise, because I was truly impressed with what he was doing and because I wanted to encourage other people to do it too. I wanted people to write about technology products based on how they used them, not based on alliances, investment, posturing of execs, the crappy stuff that means almost nothing to users, and imho is just a substitute for actually understanding the technology. Mike was approaching products the way I felt they should be approached. Hence the praise.
Dave is right on here. Though he goes on to mostly criticize Mike Arrington himself for the way he deals with criticism and potential conflicts of interest, I think Dave is on to something more. here
The real problem with TechCrunch for me is that it just isn’t very interesting anymore. I started reading TC because of the good, in-depth reviews on the site. Today, TechCrunch is nothing more than a news outlet, afraid to state any real opinion in fear of losing advertisers. The reviews are shallow, the writing often lackluster and I miss the energy of Arrington himself on the site, who is (or at least used to be) more passionate about this whole Web 2.0 thing than anybody else.
Today, Mashable does a better job at writing news copy.
Why is TechCrunch still important? Because enough people still hang around there to drive quite a lot of traffic to a new site. TechCrunch is still the anchor of the Web 2.0 blogosphere. But anchors can be lifted and replaced.
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