Found+READ: Comments by Richard Jones

Richard Jones — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:49:32 GMT

Even for the blogosphere this is really weak. This article perfectly illustrates whats wrong with Giga-Om TechCrunch and their ilk. The kind of thin surface level crap that passes for journalism.

Although I liked Broadbandits because of my personal interests, in retrospect, it lacked any real investigative reporting just a simple retelling of the public record. When compared to Conspiracy of Fools it comes up woefully short.

I thought the relaunch of Giga-om would be a serious effort something along the lines of “The Industry Standard”

While not perfect, TIS had a very strong reporting staff and provided good back story and reporting on their subjects. I dont know if Web 2.0 is dying or not but I do know what passes for Tech related journalism is not helping matters. A bunch of pithy “reports”( passed along from blog to blog) that read like a bad inside joke. I hope you can do better than this.

Richard Jones — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:50:21 GMT

While I cannot understand the obsession with celebrity. Both TMZ and TheSmokingGun have excellent staffs, who have developed sources and “digg” below the surface not just “report” on the latest press release.
That report on ” A Million Pieces” was outstanding. I suggest Arrington and Malik take that VC ( or in TC’s case their profits) money and hire Gaspirino or James B. Stewart as contributors

Richard Jones — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:50:47 GMT

I hate to beat a dead horse but again this Katie used Dr.Dre and it seems as if google wikipedia were her sources. This is a start-up blog so here is where the story should have gone:
1. Dre was a young black male could not get traditional funding so his “angel” VC was a criminal enterprise (dopeman dopeman)
2. His “co-founder”, originally considered the muscle behind the product actually became the the better business person by demanding long term controlof the companies master recording ( a move that on a smaller scale is similar to the many the moves of a young Bill Gates and Microsoft)
3. Egos clash and Dre now has corporate cred and can no get legit funding…he goes his separate way
4. then he goes Steve Jobs and despite a slow start, a new take on an old idea ( enimen v “traditional” rap….ipod v old ways of portable entertainment ) he now is on top of his biz