Once upon a time a read techcrunch, because they actually kept me in the know. I never commented, but i read it. Then the web grew up and i figured there is web outside of silicon valley, the web is in places where micheal arringtons will never report about because they have never heard of these places heck they have not heard of any place outside of palo alto.
Now when i visit them once in a while mostly courtesy techmeme. Its that friends promoting friends thing. that hope that if i send you traffic and you send me traffic, in the end maybe we can still get people to believe all the web is in silicon valley thing you know.
I still like techmeme, atleast they do silicon valley well. But in the recent past techcrunch is really trying hard to find something to write about. And then they make up stories that should be going on someones personal blog.
They recently reported about how google is using a competitors name to get traffic to its website and how it uses its own advertising platform to advertise itself.
So google is supposed to use someone elses advertising platform to promote its product and not its own because that somehow is unethical?
I tell you what is unethical, bad reporting is unethical, reporting for the sake of reporting is unethical.
Techcrunch, time for some self searching guys, maybe you can fire a people or two yourself. Why not firing is in, isnt it?
