Mashable Kindle Hickup, Techcrunch - Wired War Resumes?
I love reading technology blogs. Most stories on top tech blogs are insightful, but every now and then a blogger is caught off-guard and posts a Null post - a post about nothing. Null posts can be attributed to blog readers appetite for fresh,original information on one hand, and competition on the other, which creates a pressure to ‘publish or parish’. I will occasional write about the technology blogging industry, map the different players, and point different trends as well as hiccups.
Mashabale gets all excited about…nothing
Mashable is one of the leading web 2.0 blogs, probably no. 2 after Techcrunch. Although these blogs title themselves as social media blogs, they post mostly about Twitter,Google,Microsoft,the iphone and sometimes the kindle - not all pure social media players.
Today Mashable writer Stan Schroeder does a very poor job being a tech blogger and writes about something that didn’t happen - his original post states that Amazon is releasing the Kindle’s source code. That is just not true, as he explains later in an update to the post.
That post is what I call a Null Post - you’re looking for something to write about, it’s early morning and you need to get those visitors coming, so you write about something without checking the facts.It can become embarrassing.
The funny thing is that I did the exact same mistake on my open source ERP blog - I reported that a certain software vendor released its product as open source, but it turned out that he didn’t - he just provided an easier access to the source - the source was available for free for a long time already. This type of mistakes tend to surface faster than you think!
Techcrunch Vs. Wired
This have been going on for some time now - Techcrunch Michael Arrington taking it at Wired magazine. Techcrunch is my favorite technology blog, and about a month ago I got my hands (for the first time) on a printed Wired magazine, and I loved it (October 2008 issue).
The TC-Wired war started a couple of years ago, with Michael, in his own unique way, took a couple of low blows at Wired. You could tell there will be blood. Indeed, bloddy it became when Wired criticized the Washington Post for publishing technology news syndicated by Techcrunch.It became really dirty, and then it went into a coma, at least for a while.
A couple of days ago Techrunch (Gears, which covers gadgets), posted this : Wired looks at junk that doesn’t work. Is Techcrunch wiping the dust off that old war? I sure hope so! I’ll keep you update, register to our RSS feed.
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