You know the type: the office maven, life-of-the-team expert, the wizard with news about the latest happenings – both admired and envied, an irreplaceable source of information. Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld co-drive the editorial function at TechCrunch, self described as a blog that is “obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies” new [...]
We’re Here to Bury Comments, Not to Praise Them
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In the beginning was Marshall McLuhan, who would have celebrated his 98th birthday these days, but more about him later. When I launched this blog almost two years ago, I decided not to accept comments: I observed how other blogs got inundated with horrific verbiage, often unrelated to the piece the comment was supposed to [...]