Re:Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang
by ciscoriordan on Saturday June 06, 2009 @08:25PM
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VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com), Silicon Alley Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/alleyinsider), and GigaOM (http://gigaom.com) are each high quality alternatives to TechCrunch.
Re:Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang
by htsh on Saturday June 06, 2009 @08:02PM
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Agree wholeheartedly. Techcrunch has its faults, but its the only site doing what it does. To nerds who are used to civilized, crowd-moderated discussions on slashdot/reddit/HN, sites like TC and mashable look like big troll kingdoms, but we have to take what we get.
The other thing worth noting is that outside of geek world, just about everything seems like troll kingdom. I want to puke when I see sites with millions of visitors but without threaded discussions, but its a sad reality and a slow process. The nerds are always ahead of the curve. The sad/funny thing is that slashdot didn't have these issues in the late 90's.
In terms of a site that covers the same news without the dickishness, aren't we on it right now? This is the best startup-news site I've ever found. And when t/c posts something worth reading, its usually here within minutes.
Re:Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang
by vyrotek on Saturday June 06, 2009 @08:03PM
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Oh if only such a site existed... I would love to drop TechCrunch completely.
I'd really love to see real journalists who believe in "be good" doing a solid site. If that were to happen, people could send their exclusives and firsts there to slowly put TechCrunch out of business.