Isaac Garcia
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9 months ago
in 37signals is one hell of a profitable business on Jed Christiansen's Blog
I think you are off by a factor of 2. Just a hunch.
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jedc
That could be very true. I'd be interested if anyone could play with the numbers substantially and have them still match up to what 37signals has released publically.
9 months ago
in Why I Read Techmeme on A VC
Techmeme is a bunch of people who know each other blogging TO each other.
Wilson's post makes this evidently clear. The "About" section of Techeme reads: "At this moment, the next big story in technology may reside on a blog you've never heard of or a news site you don't have time to scan."
Yet - every time I take a look at Techmeme (once a week at best) the Titles and Related Links are always the same people. Always. And Wilson's post "that he saw a post from his friend Evslin" speaks to this. (I like Tom' s blog too).
Why do you (or anyone else) need Gabe Rivera to connect the dots for you?
Techmeme would be infinitely more interesting if I could get an opinion or story that is NOT written by Scoble, Wilson, Schonfeld, Venturebeat, Jarvis, Israel, Carr or Arrington. All of these bloggers are decent writers, etc. I have nothing against any of them (you) - except maybe Arrington :). j/k All of the writers are good in their own right - and I'm not trying to take anything away from them.
My point is that everyone jokes that Techmeme is a circle-jerk....this isn't a joke. Techmeme IS a circle-jerk.
Where are the "blogs you've never heard of?"
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Wilson's post makes this evidently clear. The "About" section of Techeme reads: "At this moment, the next big story in technology may reside on a blog you've never heard of or a news site you don't have time to scan."
Yet - every time I take a look at Techmeme (once a week at best) the Titles and Related Links are always the same people. Always. And Wilson's post "that he saw a post from his friend Evslin" speaks to this. (I like Tom' s blog too).
Why do you (or anyone else) need Gabe Rivera to connect the dots for you?
Techmeme would be infinitely more interesting if I could get an opinion or story that is NOT written by Scoble, Wilson, Schonfeld, Venturebeat, Jarvis, Israel, Carr or Arrington. All of these bloggers are decent writers, etc. I have nothing against any of them (you) - except maybe Arrington :). j/k All of the writers are good in their own right - and I'm not trying to take anything away from them.
My point is that everyone jokes that Techmeme is a circle-jerk....this isn't a joke. Techmeme IS a circle-jerk.
Where are the "blogs you've never heard of?"
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Technology for the Masses
Circle-jerk, that's classic LOL I won't use that phrase exactly but techmeme does sound like a super elitist-club. The flip side of the argument is these blogs are popular in the first place because the general public (like you and me) trust them and read them over unknown blogs. If all the readers defect to a new unknown blog, then I guess it would show up on techmeme.
Robert Seidman
I agree with Fred that the related links are nicely handled by Gabe, but I also to some extent agree wth Isaac (though without the angst re: the circle-jerkiness). Sometimes it seems like you use about 8 different services to access all the stuff that's already in your RSS feed.
I don't have a problem with that if it's your preference, but it seems kind of inefficent.
I don't have a problem with that if it's your preference, but it seems kind of inefficent.
