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The Guardian Sacks Paul Carr
Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2009 12:15 Written by Thord Daniel Hedengren Wednesday, 22 July 2009 12:15
Paul Carr used to write the Not Safe For Work column for The Guardian, but no more. The reason is a slashing of the freelance budget, says Carr on Twitter , and then goes on and tells us that he thought about doing the column for free but decided against it. That last part was on his blog though , which is a good thing because the reasoning would take up quite a few tweets… In the same blog post he writes a bit about leaving. Having said all that, I will miss the outlet the Guardian gave me every week; to boast and swear and talk about things that were on my mind. I’m not sure there’s another UK paper that would give me such freedom – and for that reason I’ll be eternally grateful to my former paymasters. And I’ll miss them, like a sometimes-mental, socialist former girlfriend
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The Guardian Sacks Paul Carr
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Bloggers: Punch Harder!
Last Updated on Sunday, 19 July 2009 06:47 Written by Thord Daniel Hedengren Sunday, 19 July 2009 06:47
Ryan Tate has the best post intro so far this year in the latest edition of Gawker-playing-Valleywag: Remember when blogs were going to be fiercely independent firebrands who, purified of old media insidery stench, would pull no punches against traditional power structures? So much for that. Today’s laptop media is shaping up to be nothing but lapdogs. The post is really about TechCrunch releasing those Twitter documents , and the rings on the water. I don’t care about that, old news, and really a lot of noise for typical journalistic behavior
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Bloggers: Punch Harder!
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Twitter on the Internal Documents
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 July 2009 03:52 Written by Thord Daniel Hedengren Thursday, 16 July 2009 03:52
Twitter has published a blog post commenting on the internal documents that are running on TechCrunch. They were obtained through an email hack on an administrative employee’s account, which in turn gave access to Twitter’s Google Apps account. They are stressing the fact that it was personal security that faltered, not Google Apps, but it still points a finger to one of the dangers of data in the cloud. No user accounts are compromised either, and naturally there’s legal actions from Twitter’s side. Meanwhile, TechCrunch and others are having a field day with the income prognosis report , security issues and the fact that these documents are out in the open in the first place .
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Twitter on the Internal Documents
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Twitter: Using Tweet is OK, Twitter Might Not Be
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 July 2009 11:55 Written by Thord Daniel Hedengren Wednesday, 1 July 2009 11:55
Twitter has applied to trademark the word “Tweet” says the official blog . They think it is an obvious attachment to the Twitter brand, but say they have no intentions of going after users of the word.
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Twitter: Using Tweet is OK, Twitter Might Not Be
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Sam Sethi Sues TechCrunch
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:53 Written by Thord Daniel Hedengren Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:53
Sam Sethi, the former TechCrunch writer, BlogNation owner, and Twitblogs founder , has filed a lawsuit against TechCrunch. For what, you might wonder? Nothing less than “a series of libelous postings” according to the lawsuit letter exchange reposted on Arrington’s CrunchNotes blog . There are some juicy details about Sethi there too, including claims that he’s being sued and is or was barred from being a director or manager for a company. I’ll not recount that though, since Arrington obviously is a party in this mess. I’ll say this though, I love the openness of which Arrington treats these things. I know I’d think twice before publishing something from a law firm with this in the heading: Letter Before Action Private & Confidential (Not For Publication) Possibly Related Posts How To Get In Touch with Michael Arrington: Sue TechCrunch Facebook Lets Journos Get First Pick TechCrunch Leaves Federated Media
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Sam Sethi Sues TechCrunch
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The Ad Heavy Feed Footers
Last Updated on Friday, 19 June 2009 01:00 Written by Thord Daniel Hedengren Friday, 19 June 2009 01:00
It was bound to happen, ads hitting the RSS feeds. It’s not even anything even remotely new, popular services such as Feedburner (pre-Google) offered advertising solutions for your feed, and does now too, thanks to Adsense. Other players in the feed sphere did it too, and don’t forget the publishers themselves – adding something at the end of the RSS feed isn’t even all that hard. And I’m not even mentioning the fact that if you put an ad in your blog post, it’ll go right along in your feed
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The Ad Heavy Feed Footers
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