that's pretty lazily written
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
how do you mean
― max, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
Love the idea of a blog about internet startups having a badass 'fuck-you' attitude
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Ceding control to the Huffington Post will be the death of everything - the voice, the swagger, the 'fuck you' attitude - that makes TechCrunch great." Emphasis from the original (!).
except in the original it's emphasized because he's quoting someone else. either the valleywag writer didn't notice that because he didn't read the whole piece he's writing about or he's deliberately suggesting the emphasis is carr's which is a weird way of making him come off as more forceful than he actually is.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
paul carr is such a tool
― max, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
well yeah
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
techcrunch is a garden shed of tools
ehhhhhhh hoos i feel you but why did carr italicize (rather than use quote marks)? i think what ryans doing is well in bounds
― max, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
i like paul carr
― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
you like a tool
― max, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
he wants 'bringing nothing to the party' to be 'a moveable feast' but its just a more polished tucker max bit imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://allthingsd.com/20110908/after-aol-rules-out-techcrunch-sale-to-arrington-tense-severance-negotiations-taking-place/
― markers, Friday, 9 September 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
urls-that-neatly-summarise-the-article-are-awesome
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 9 September 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― markers, Friday, 9 September 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/arrington-is-out-at-aol-and-techcrunch/
But some of TechCrunch’s writers and editors are considering leaving AOL and TechCrunch to start a rival blog, according to a person briefed on the developments who was not authorized to speak publicly.
― markers, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
i would do that cause then maybe u can sell it to aol later
― ice cr?m, Monday, 12 September 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/techcrunch-wall-street-journal_b_958559.html
― markers, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/113339800295182336
here we go
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
max otm. carr worst person i have met.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Monday, 12 September 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
ever.
Huffington's story appears to makes sense, and Arrington and his army are really coming off as sooks.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 12 September 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
i'm still trying to figure out how the apparent conflict of interest didn't occur to anybody until after they announced crunchfund
like
who the fuck are you purported businesspeople
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
heh, im sure it occurred to "them"! they dont care; they just want crunchfunds money!
the conflict-of-interest thing was just arianna huffington seeing an opportunity to dump arrington
― max, Monday, 12 September 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah probably
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 12 September 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
as gawkers ryan tate has documented, huffpo is rife w/ conflicts of interest http://gawker.com/5837690/
― max, Monday, 12 September 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
right but i'm saying it seems to me arrington & TC should have foreseen that the conflict would be poorly received publicly, and that if AOL was buying into such an obvious questionable scenario maybe they had diff motives than "putting money in mike arrington's pocket"
wld really like to have been a fly on proverbial wall.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
xp that links to this http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-says-reporters-are-not-allowed-to-invest-in-companies-they-cover-except-michael-arrington-2011-4
It's always tricky to get an unbiased picture when press agencies' fallings-out are covered by other press agencies.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 12 September 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
like is arrington just a bigger and more egotistical fool than i realized or
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
i wouldve really liked for there to be a bomb on the wall that killed all of these people
― ice cr?m, Monday, 12 September 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
"NO ONE WILL CARE, FOR I AM ARRINGTON, OF THE INTERNET"
Most annoying thing is that people like Siegler are trying to drag the readers into it.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 12 September 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
most annoying thing is everything
― ice cr?m, Monday, 12 September 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
hoos the thing is itd never really been a problem for arrington before? and my guess is, if arianna hadnt released that initial statement (w/o arringtons knowledge), it wouldnt really have been an issue. tech journalism!
― max, Monday, 12 September 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
ice cram otm
― comes correct with his gameboy (k3vin k.), Monday, 12 September 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
oh man. that arrington guy. hate him so much. what an asshole. can't believe he did that awful thing.
― all the small zings (history mayne), Monday, 12 September 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
"The fact is, 60% of your data is duplicate. If you have an MP3 file, someone else probably has the same one, for example. Each person only tends to have around 25 GB of unique, personal data, he says. Using patented de-duplication algorithms, compression techniques and encryption, Bitcasa keeps costs down (way, way down, but that’s it’s secret sauce), which is what makes it so affordable. Bitcasa also explained that a freemium model is on its way with less-than-unlimited storage for free."
uh
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/with-bitcasa-the-entire-cloud-is-your-hard-drive-for-only-10-per-month/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?
at the v bottom of that long ass post, btw is
Disclosure: Crunchfund is an investor in Bitcasa
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
unbelievable. the stones on these guys. god.
― BIG CULTURAL SIGNIFIER aka the wait wtf is a cultural signifier? (history mayne), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
is this fun for you or
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Disclosure: CrunchFund is an investor in Bitcasa.
No shit. I never would've guessed reading the article.
Interesting principle though.
xxp's :-)
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
well i was UHing that they expect the copyright police not to come running after their deduplication process
and then yeah obv the tone b/w the disclosure is p lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
If Huffington was indeed looking for a reason to upend TechCrunch they certainly gave her one.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
hott
― watching my swag like a hawk (history mayne), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/13/team-arrington/
After all the incredibly zealous LOOK AT OUR NEW LOGO LOOOOOK shtick a few weeks ago I didn't think the navel-gazing could possibly get any worse.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
first comment: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/the-2011-disrupt-sf-battlefield-final-round-companies/
― markers, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
ariel arrffington
― am0n, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
AMC should make a show about this.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
do blog comments look good on a television screen
― markers, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link