After losing hired guns writers left and right Mike Arrington decided the smartest way to get us all work for him is crowdsourcing. In fact, why not get it all free? So he came up with this bogus theme:
“I want you to tell me how much we (occasionally) suck. Sometimes our predictions are, with the benefit of hindsight, way off. Or they had no logical basis to begin with. Or perhaps we got some crucial fact wrong. Whatever it is, I want you to dig out the worst post in TechCrunch history and write about why it’s so bad.”
In other words, he wants us, the 350K readers to find his biggest blunders. Why? Since so far he’s been largely positive on all-things-web-2.0 the worst blunders will likely point to business failures. Arrington’s biggest coup will be when he finally reveals that his April Fool’s Joke wasn’t such a joke after all: he really acquired FuckedCompany. Now all he has to do is pluck in the hundreds of submissions he receives from his loyal subjects readers, and voila! – he has FuckedCrunch up and running, edited by us, the Crowd.
Update: I can now declare TrashCrunch. the absolute winner. Why? First, what better URL for the trash-TechCrunch contest? Second, the secret sauce: dynamic content. I can redirect it to whatever the winning entry is.
Update: Oh, boy, a really angry man actually takes me seriously and quotes me as reference for his ridiculous speculation. I wish he found his sense of humor. And a large dose of mouth-wash.
Sorry for the ‘ridiculous’ mistake that’s only a minor footnote in my actual post. The clashing, garish colors, animated icons, and ransom-note typography made your post a little hard to comprehend.
As for mouthwash, you’re the one who said “fuck”.
I’m not *saying* it, weird as it is, it happens to be the name of that site.
Zoli – I’m with Warren. His opinion wasn’t that trollish and sorry – but repeating a word means you have written it. Especially as yo’ve parodied the TC colors/font etc.
Dennis, of course I wrote it, my point was that I did not *introduce* it, it’s just not my style. In fact I never liked the name of the business in the first place – but that;s what it is, and I’m reporting on it.
My point with Warren’s response is that it’s an angry attack post. More on that later…
Zoli’s right- that was nothing more than a random and completely unjustified diatribe. And against who? All tech bloggers? Warren’s writing reads like the rambling of an angry suspender-wearing unix geek who doesn’t understand what all that there Web 2.0 hubbub is about. And I don’t think Mike Arrington ever took credit for any tech innovation, especially not inventing the Internet.
Ilya,
I’m actually grateful to him, gave me the basics for another post:-)
I love your comment on TC:-) Started to read your blog, be back for more, but now it’s lap swim hour 🙂