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journalismism
A Puffed-Up Reporter's Puffed-Up Sources
CNBC tech reporter Jim Goldman blew the biggest story on his beat by insisting his "sources inside the company" said Apple's Steve Jobs was in tip-top shape. Do these sources even exist? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by cassandra: Owen, stick to financial stuff like this. You are so much better at it. There are a couple of CNBC reporters... 3 Responses | Other threads
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liars
Damning Proof Comcast Contracted To Sandvine
Comcast told its employees to not comment when customers ask about recent reports in an AP article that it contracted BitTorrent sabotaging to a company called Sandvine, or to even discuss that a relationship exists between the two companies. Too bad that Barron's financial magazine reported back in April that the two are in bed together: [Consumerist]
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By Ben PopkenComment by JoeMomma: I feel your pain, JustAGuy2. But there is no point trying to explain concepts like traffic shaping and oversubscription to... more » | Other threads
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podtech
Out of awards, PodTech listed the prettiest boys in school
Remember way back in grade school, when a gaggle of girls would write a list of the boys in their class that they wanted to marry? Video network PodTech did the same thing. According to a former employee, after the podcast company ran out of statuettes for its "Vloggie" awards, the head of the company wrote a list of the people PodTech was courting to join its company. The people on the list got statuettes first, and some of the rest got stalled until the company could buy new awards and pretend there was no problem. Man, hope that strategy helped them attract some great talent! Here's our source's firsthand account. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Mike: RE: Chuckumentary's comment: Ooh, snap! more » | Other threads
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i hate it here
Five words that reveal that you're bullshitting me
"The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts," said George Orwell in "Politics and the English Language." Thank God the man never worked in tech. Starting with the recently abused "conversation," here are five words that signal bullshit in corpspeak. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Botswana Meat Commission FC: "SOLUTIONS" arggggggh. can we just start burning p.r. hacks at the stake now? more » | Other threads
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explainer
Who is Casey Serin and why should I hate him?
The man CNET called the "most hated blogger" is suing his detractors and allegedly hiding in Australia, according to CNET's new report. Who is this real estate blogger, why's he so hated, and why do I recognize the bitter taste in my mouth? More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Randolf: Robert Cote' is one of my personal heroes. Even if his "Cote'ism" theory is utter bullshit. more » | Other threads
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kevin burton
Snooping women's AIM names is "what I want to go down in history for."
NICK DOUGLAS — Okay, okay, you're sick of hearing about Kevin Burton, but this is hilarious. Kevin commented on Valleywag and denied peeping at women's AIM conversations at wifi cafes, saying he was "joking" to the Wired writer who wrote this as fact in 2004. "If I'm guilty of anything here, it's trust," he told Valleywag. "I expect you to correct your article and update the story." Ahaha, not so fast. Kevin's a long-time chatter on an IRC channel named #joiito. And in 2004, he sounded honestly proud of the "alleged" spying tactic. In fact, he said it was how he wanted to be remembered. Here's a chat log. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by o2345: It's sad that some people are just not born with any common sense nor will ever get any. This guy... more » | Other threads
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iphone
One in four high schoolers plans to buy iPhone, become a star, move out of this crummy town and see the world
NICK DOUGLAS — One in four high schoolers would drop $500 on an iPhone, according to a poll by banking firm Piper Jaffray. Ahem. As a recovering ex-teen (on the wagon for three years as of Tuesday), let me channel the psychology of a high schooler. I am told about a hip product that will elevate you among my peers. I am asked to speculate, in a consequence-free context, whether I would spend my next two McDonald's paychecks on this product. I will tell you "sure." And I'll probably tell you my plan to get my own car, man. Yeah, and an apartment, cause I'm sick of Mom and Dad. Totally, man, totally. (Photo: duncandavidson)
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By Nick DouglasComment by gordongekk0: OK, first of all high school is all about looking or being cool and kids will usually do what it... more » | Other threads
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michael crook
We got fake-DMCA'd! I'ma frame this and mount it over my bed.
Aw, thanks, Michael Crook! The Craigslist-baiting blogger who sent around a round of fake DMCA take-down notices to everyone who showed the Fox News screenshot photo here (a photo he does not own). We had to post that photo five times to get Crook to send us the notice too. Wanna see? More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by concernicus: Michael Crook is a cock suckin' mother fucker that ought to be tortured to the fullest extent. He should... more » | Other threads
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myspace
The Washington Post is so last January, and two other things the paper tried to hide
BREAKING NEWS! SEVERAL STUDENTS AT FALLS CHURCH HIGH SCHOOL AREN'T ON MYSPACE AS MUCH AS THEY USED TO BE! More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by schvitzatura: Like acid-washed jeans and big hair, MySpace will invade the interior of the United States until saturation occurs and ennui... more » | Other threads
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bloggers
Wait, that's legal? This week's most heinous business ideas
- Business 2.0 Magazine tells entrepreneurs to "sign up customers, then deliver." Which here means "Fake it, then take it" — their poster boy for this idea launches blogs full of rehashed info (okay, we all do that), then takes inquiring readers and refers them to real pros or gets a quick and dirty certification in the area of fake expertise. Sure, it's legal, until the malpractice lawsuits begin. [Business 2.0]
- Wireless network infrastructure renter American Tower doesn't need stock option backdating when it can launder executive payments through subsidiary companies, then "disclose" the extra payments in the fine print rather than in the plain financial report. By the time shareholders know what hit them, they're afraid to complain, lest the stock drops. [Fortune]
- The Pee&Poo plush doll and clothing shop. That's just vile. [Pee&Poo, safe for work]
- And an idea from reader Kevin Marks: Combine Google solar power with Sun's datacenter-in-a-trailer and Edelman's Walmart Across America, and cross the country with a solar-powered datacenter in an RV parked in Walmart lots, serving video to the locals. Actually...actually that sounds so sensible that it'll never work.
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hewlett-packard
SV Confidential: Pat Dunn thought she could pull up anyone's phone records
The highlight of yesterday's Congressional hearing over a sketchy Hewlett-Packard investigation came when Congressman Greg Walden asked HP ex-chair Patricia Dunn, if she didn't know investigators were lying to phone companies to get targets' phone records, how she thought they got them. More » -
myspace
Room for a million more: The user-count inflation of MySpace and its forbears
"Now serving 1,000,000," says del.icio.us. That user count sounds solid — and Yahoo's social bookmarking service has usage data to back it up — but sketchier companies have wildly inflated their numbers before. User counts, just like page counts, get inflated as companies fight for the PR limelight. Let's take a look at some of the worst offenders. More » -
marissa mayer
Marissa Mayer can't possibly use all these gadgets
After seeing Apple CEO Steve Jobs present the iTV, a box that wirelessly connects a computer to a TV. (And to think that before this, we used cords — how primitive!) Google VP Marissa Mayer told the press, "It's what I always wanted." More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by ray johnson: You don't need to use Apple's stuff. Just make sure to have it prominently displayed for others to see. more » | Other threads
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flock
Flock CEO leaves the fold
Pop quiz: What does a once-popular startup, top-heavy with philosophy and lacking direction, do when the one guy who started the whole thing quits? More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by unsympathetic: I always thought Flock's business plan was to be bought by Yahoo!. After all, why would all of the neat... more » | Other threads
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pretexting
Cheatsheet: What is pretexting?
This week's tech news is all about "pretexting," the method that investigators hired by Hewlett-Packard used to get the personal phone records of reporters and HP board members. But what is it? You'd better know, because it's about to blow up the business world. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by ResearchZilla: actually, way back in 2005 'private investigator magazine' ran a special cover story on exactly this subject, including a legal... more » | Other threads
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hewlett-packard
To kill a whistleblower: HP doesn't give a damn about privacy
Chief Privacy Officer of Hewlett-Packard, to a committee of U.S. Representatives this summer: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Shades: If there were not so many smucks and smuckettes in today's business world, corporate leaders wouldn't have to resort to... more » | Other threads
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forbes
Forbes ignores Silicon Valley in "America's Most Wired Cities"
With Mountain View blanketed in wifi from Google and San Jose more wired than Too Much Coffee Man, how did Silicon Valley's towns get sidelined from Forbes's "America's Most Wired Cities" list? Only San Francisco made it in (fourth place, baby). Well, Forbes explains their methodology (emphasis ours): More » -
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Grouper VP told "big fish" tale
Now, if you were the Sales and Marketing VP of a tiny startup, and Sony was going to buy your little piece of flipmeat in a week, wouldn't you know about it? More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by agentX: Citrin and the rest are all greedy bastards. Wouldn't trust anything any of those guys say or promise. ... more » | Other threads
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aol
AOL is so sorry, it'll never happen again!
AOL, whose research department recently released search records to the public (much like the records they showed the government earlier this year), issued an apology today for the gross violation of its users' privacy. More » -
technorati
Technorati rewrites history of blogging
As part of his duties running Technorati, Dave Sifry writes a seasonal "State of the Blogosphere" report. One purpose is to demonstrate the blog search engine's growing importance as the blog world explodes. Sure, it's exploding, but Dave can't decide how quickly. Watch him magically change the past: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by ResearchZilla: amazing...what kinda magical maths are they using over there? i heard - and this is extremely confidential - that technorati actually... more » | Other threads
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youtube
Reader poll: Will YouTube be the first public flameout?
When a hot startup CEO goes to a retreat searching for a buyout and fails to bring one home, how does he spin it? Well, when YouTube's Chad Hurley didn't get a sweet enough offer from the heads of NBC, News Corp, and other guests at media mogul summer camp, he spun it by hinting that his company might go public. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Blackjack: Hey Chad, the year 2000 called, they want their business strategy back. more » | Other threads
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liars
Guru Dion, the Web 2.0 psychic
Step right up, folks! Get yer palm read and your cards taroted by the Web 2.0 psychic! What's your sign? Is Omnidrive ascendant in the house of TechCrunch? Dion Hinchcliffe (OMG perfect name) has the answer! More » -
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India's a bubble
A New York Times op-ed points out that while India's touting itself as the new Silicon Valley, at best it's a cheap knockoff. For example, half of India's children are malnourished, and the economy wouldn't reach first-world standards at its current rate of growth until 2106. More » -
microsoft
Microsoft learns how to deny products (instead of the reverse)
Oh joy, two Microsoft gotchas in one day! More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by tokemak: This is either a lesson in how to lie through your teeth or a lesson in how not to believe... more » | Other threads
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linkedin
Linkslut lifestyle: the pickup artists of networking
Spend too much time in the world of superlinked social site users, and they start to look like the seedy pickup artists in last year's book The Game. There's the same sense of social norms being twisted into Machiavellian tools. Like pickup artists, superlinkers have their own language, tactics, and a dubious micro-industry. More » -
pud
The Puddy doth protest too much
For those of you who just tuned in, Philip "Pud" Kaplan of anti-evil-dot-com-blog Fucked Company fame gave up his job as AdBrite CEO. But did he ever commit the evils for which he trashed so many dot-coms in the 90s? From the last line of CNET's article: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by banane: Can we also remember Pud from some pretty low budget and lame porn sites? I mean I always loved me... more » | Other threads
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microsoft
Microsoft cheaps out on free USB ports
Microsoft made the mistake this March of offering free USB drives loaded with Windows Desktop Licensing info (best use: battling MS salespeople). In a desperate bid at getting something tangible from Microsoft, hordes of freebie chasers signed up for the drives. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Nick Douglas: By the way, pretend my post title reads "USB drives." Not ports. more » | Other threads
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veritas
MBA-faking Ex-Veritas CFO screwed Symantec over
A reader gives some juicy background on security company Symantec's tax debt — mostly carried over from Veritas, which it bought last year. A few years back, Veritas's CFO wasn't doing his job, but he was doing a low-level employee. More »
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