Morrie the Toupee Salesman

One of the things I dislike rather intensely about the “blogosphere,” especially as evidenced by what appears on the front page of techmeme, is the “echo chamber” effect. A typical tech story generally starts as a press release, and then the usual suspects weigh in with their opinions. Techcrunch, Mashable, Readwriteweb, Gigaom, etc, etc would [...]

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Having been on the receiving end of Sarah Lacy’s pathetic attempts at journalism, all I can say about Chris Shipley’s piece entitled “Shoddy Reporting, Invective and Arrogance. Yeah, I Want Some of That.” is “Yay”.
And Robert Scoble? He sure seems like a nice guy, but he writes huge mounds of crap.

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It’s not hard to see what’s wrong with journalism in an article like this one:
“Men, on the other hand, have no such pretenses. Often, “they try to show how clever they are by writing very cryptic code,” she tells the Business Technology Blog. “They try to obfuscate things in the code,” and don’t leave clear [...]

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Hacker News might be banning valleywag. Michael Arrington crows. Valleywag is basically a techcrunch competitor. They report on the same companies, the same people. The difference is the editorial slant. Instead of the hushed reverence of the business press, they have a tabloid mentality. So basically they’re being banned not for their content, or for [...]

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Sometimes I get slightly crotchety over word usage, probably more than I should. But when I see something written by someone who probably thinks of themselves as a professional journalist, I guess I expect more. So when someone writes:
“But Windows Live Spaces doesn’t have the cutting-edge user interface or the Web 2.0 cache that Flickr [...]

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