I smiled when he tried to defend being labeled as techcrunch being just a blog.

The sad truth is while techcrunch does "other things", its main operation is being a weblog, as posted in its about section:

"TechCrunch was founded on June 11, 2005, as a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.

TechCrunch has now grown into a network of technology focused sites offering a wide range of content and new media."

In its literal sense Techcrunch is anything but tech blog, more precisely is covers a subset of technology, which is mainly the business aspect of "online technology". A tech blog in it's truest sense would be Arstechnica or Engadget or even gizmodo. TC's tech writing depth goes as far as reporting "twitter being down for 30secs". Their writers couldn't tell their ass from their mouth if you were to ask them a simple question as to point out the underlying technical similarities between safari and chrome.

As much as I love hacker news, I am often troubled by some of our fascination towards techcrunch as a source for tech news. TC is often posted 4-5 times a day here on the front page.

Utter rubbish example #1:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/11/google-code-freeze/

example #2:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/10/playboy-iphone/

example #3:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/10/facebook-is-totally-dow...

Those are in last 24 hours...