Creeps, Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, Y Combinator, DOA

Paid is better than Free, Michael Arrington needs a Homo Sapien Brain

08.13.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

Assuming Michael Arrington is able to find a mate, his descendants may in 3.5 million years have normal reasoning abilities.
TechCrunch is an awful enough blog for covering worthless businesses, but now it’s criticizing a legitimate company, 37signals, for giving bad advice? It’s one thing to be an idiot, but it’s simply unacceptable for Michael […]

Tools, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants, DOA

Gnomedex is a Joke, Scoble is Still a Tool

08.13.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Gnomedex is another one of those stupid Web 2.0 events where the self-important bloggers come together to talk about how they can use social news sites and organic whole bean tofu curd improve the world. A Warner Music executive Ethan Kaplan summarizes it better than I could myself saying:
What was supposed to, and what […]

Tools, Hate Mail, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, Sycophants, Y Combinator

Why Being Anonymous Makes TechDumpster More Honest

08.11.07 | Permalink | 22 Comments

It always amazes me how many people like to dismiss TechDumpster and Living in First Life’s comments and arguments simply because we refuse to disclose who we are.  Our anonymity is in fact the primary reason we write what we believe to be one of the most honest blogs in the Web 2.0 world.  Here […]

Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants, TechCrunch, Y Combinator

Michael Arrington and Paul Graham Can’t Debate

08.11.07 | Permalink | 10 Comments

It’s funny how people like Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) and Paul Graham (Y Combinator) love the idea of logic. They use the impression of it to keep their fanboys happy. The moment someone tries to use logic against them they dodge the issue and just ignore it or use fake logic. Here are some […]

Sycophants, Y Combinator

Anywhere.fm going Nowhere.fm + Don Dodge Has No Balls

08.10.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

As with formerly intelligent folks like Dave McClure, Web 2.0 has a magical ability to make people forget logical reasoning skills. Today, we discover the odd case of Don Dodge, Director of Business Development at Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. He had the cajones to stand up to Paul Graham’s stupid article about how […]

Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants, TechCrunch

Michael Arrington: Shill of the Week

08.09.07 | Permalink | 17 Comments

At least in Amsterdam, they’re clear. You pay for what you want. TechCrunch pretends they don’t get paid for their crappy articles.
Using every opportunity to shill for Ooma, Michael Arrington wrote about Vonage’s improving results and threw in that he’s switching to Ooma. Let’s note why Michael Arrington and TechCrunch are […]

Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, DOA

IntenseDebate: Not Very Intense, Founders are Tense

08.08.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Josh, the founder of a TechStars short-kids bus start-up IntenseDebate, already got owned in regular debate. I will give it to Josh for at least having the balls to step down when he knew he had no arguments and trying to carry on a reasonable debate unlike the regular Y Bombinator tools.
Why does Intense […]

Snake Oil Salesmen, DOA

Dell buys Zing, nobody cares

08.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Dell announced Monday it’s intentions to buy “privately held Zing Systems Inc., a company that focuses on always-on connected audio and entertainment devices”. Yawn. Nobody cares. And for good reason. This proves, yet again, that Dell just doesn’t get it.
They go out and buy some little shitbrick piece of […]

Web 1.0, DOA

NYT Lays an Egg - Says Bye Bye to Paying Users

08.07.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

“Why is my employer so stupid?” We’re wondering the same thing Tom.
The once venerable New York Times has decided according to the never-venerable Mashable to end it’s premium “Times Select” service. With approximately 220,000 members paying $7.95 per month, the NYT was generating $1.75 MM per month or $21 MM per year. […]

Tools, TechCrunch, DOA

Is Blogging Ready for a Retarded Workforce?

08.06.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

What’s not to like about communism? Our favorite blogtard Duncan Riley writes another eloquent post about whether bloggers should unionize. While his conclusion is that it won’t happen because of the supply of labor, there are a few other arguments against blogger unionization that he misses:
1. Unionization leads to a “minimum wage” […]

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