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Employee of the Month
Jason Calacanis, Valleywag's new Apple analyst
"Valleywag’s Jason Calacanis believes that Apple is working on a networked HDTV," writes Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet. Adrian, if your editor tries to make you go back and erase what you wrote, because his drinking buddies from Columbia Journalism Review think it's fatal to publish a huge factual fuckup in the first three words of an article, call me. I'll come over and slap J. Jonah Jameson with a printout of exactly how many people have already seen it. Tell him, "It's not the crime, it's the coverup." Has-been journalists love a Watergate reference. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by WagCurious: Apple likes margins greater than 0. They won't be making a TV anytime soon. Nor will they invest in disposal... more » | Other threads
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predictions
Microsoft bought Yahoo, according to new Microsoft book
Remember that brief moment this spring when everyone was saying Microsoft-Yahoo was a sure thing? That was when ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley must have put the finishing touches on her new book, Microsoft 2.0. On page 4, Foley writes: "This is a book on Microsoft's next chapter. It's going to be an unpredictable one, as Microsoft's purchase of Yahoo earlier this year makes evident." Committing the purchase to ink on paper was foolish of Foley, no matter what the odds were on Microsoft buying Yahoo, since even a clean deal would likely have taken a year to close. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by thekevin: She was on Laporte's Windows Weekly podcast and seemed intelligent enough. more » | Other threads
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Quincy Smith's one big idea
CNET has been eyed by Quincy Smith, CBS's hyperacquisitive online chief, long before he sealed a $1.8 billion deal to buy the company. As a banker at Allen & Co., CNET was his client. "At one point, he wrote this major presentation about how valuable content was," a tipster tells us. "The single example in it was CNET. It was basically his only idea." An unfair dig? Perhaps. There is little like CNET on the market — a pure play on professional online content worth $1.8 billion? It can't be found. But the lack of a direct competitor may have also been CNET's undoing — the mixed blessing that brought it under attack by activist investors and led it to CBS's waiting arms. More » -
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"Back in 1991, when I first started as a tech journalist for PC Week (now eWeek), there was no Web." — ZDNet executive editor David Berlind. Really, David? Because that would be news to Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web two years beforehand. [Berlind's Testbed]
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By Owen ThomasComment by Filament: Sorry, Owen, but as Sifr explains, you're just plain wrong. For most of 1991, the Web didn't exist. And even... more » | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
ZDNet advises Yahoo to buy a department of Google
Some great reporting comes out of the once-dominant ZDNet news network. I just never happen to see it. Instead I see articles that scream "We don't do research." In the ZDNet article "How will Yahoo address social networking?" writer Larry Dignan suggests several sites that the company could buy, such as Facebook, Friendster ... or Orkut. Of course, there's not much chance Google would sell Orkut, a social network created by the Google employee shown here, to its competitor. -
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Just shoot me: ZDNet blogger says "Web 3.0" unironically
This just in! One of ZDNet's crazy bloggers has finally gone too far by saying the phrase "Web 3.0" THREE TIMES IN ONE ARTICLE. More » -
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These six companies won't buy YouTube for a billion dollars.
Does tech site ZDNet just exist to give daft writers a place to blog? A half-baked entry from ZDNet blogger Russell Shaw lists six companies he thinks will buy YouTube. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Konstantinos: Nick, you keep insisting YouTube will fail, but you didn't reply to my comment in the previous post, regarding short... more » | Other threads
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Steve Gillmor is dead
While all the happenin', relevant journalists were out at the book party for Wired editor Chris Anderson, ZDNet writer Steve Gillmor was at home shutting down his blog, "InfoRouter" (Alternative title: "An Incoherent Truth"). More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Blackjack: Heh. Someone asked him on the blog post if he was going to work for Netscape now. more » | Other threads
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ZDNet: The Fox News of tech journalism
Once, ZDNet was a respectable outlet for level-headed journalists. Then it gave everyone a blog and every day was Someone-unlocked-the-madhouse Day. Today, for example: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Nick Douglas: Blackjack - watch the PMS jokes, you're funnier than that. more » | Other threads
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