Web 2.0 Bloggers

Honestly, it’s impossible to work in these conditions. I’m writing this from the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp ; a one-day event in San Francisco celebrating the joys of the ‘real-time’ web. Sounds awesome, right? It is. I’ve been on stage, heckling participants on the marketing panel, I’ve been Tweeting from the audience, I’ve been following the live-blogging of the panels. Generally I’ve been living the real time dream – which probably explains why I haven’t done any actual work all day. And now I’m twenty minutes away from my deadline, and I still have to read a week of TechCrunch and figure out everything that’s ... Read Full Story

As any industry analyst will tell you, since its two journalists were returned from North Korea , Current.tv has been woefully overstaffed. The company simply doesn’t require that many employees to edit YouTube clips for its audience of jobless hipster doucheballs who have fallen asleep in front of the television. And so it wasn’t entirely surprising this week when TechCrunch reported on a ‘ bloodbath ‘ at the company, with 80 people being laid-off across all departments. Current’s COO Joanna Drake Earl (who is herself three separate people) insisted to Leena that the layoffs aren’t a ‘cost-cutting measure’ but rather a ’shift in programming ... Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase , source unknown The nerd fight is well underway between Techcrunch and Le Web generating controversy and its own share of commentary on the social networks (Twitter and Friend Feed) today. The long story short is that Techcrunch did something that Loc Le Meur did not like, and the nerd spat went on from there. Now you have “censorship” being called, and this and that, it is a nerd fight, do not expect it to make any sense, it is all about posturing. Posturing in this case isn’t bad, because it is causing controversy, which as Robert Scoble points out happens ... Read Full Story

I’m writing this from the ‘club section’ (whatever that is) from San Francisco’s AT&T Park where, if I understand the scoring correctly (I don’t), the Cubs are leading the Giants 4-1. I’ve just eaten my second hot dog and I’m debating whether to buy a baseball cap emblazoned with the words ‘Go Giants’. I also just turned to my British friend Andrew to make an amusing American pop culture reference, prefacing my observation with the word “dude…”. I mention all of this for two reasons. First, I hope it will make you understand why my column this week reads like it’s been written by ... Read Full Story

You can get to the podcast right here , and there is a lot of humor here. Really if you want a laugh, you gotta listen to this. Go screaming to minute 45 to get to the fun bit, it is great hearing pundits swear on a pod cast about “hiding behind a shroud of privacy while pushing their business forward” when it comes to Facebook agreeing to play in Google’s playground on the whole open ID single sign on hoopla that is infecting the tech elite this morning. There is some humor here listening to Robert Scoble and others go at it. So ... Read Full Story