Tim, you may have your wish:
http://www.gizm...endo-222182.php

Silvia, spam elsewhere with that broken english.

I don’t understand why people get agitated so easily. If you don’t like Techcrunch just go to another blog.

I know I’ve been reading less and less of TC lately and have almost never visited Crunchgear.
Blogs are changing a lot these days. Maybe there are too many of them that I can’t give the same kind of attention I used to give or maybe I am bored of this stuff. I go anywhere I get the same stuff.

If you have time for critcizing during this time of year to which you are expected to be nice, then perhaps you should get employed with Techcrunch and let us see what you can do.

Sorry but what a pussy you all are!

Notice coming days in quotes…should I hold my breath (which may be just as dangerous as the alternative) or should I risk being trampled on…..

Adrian
http://www.jollyjo.org

TechCrunch Reports: “If you’re pounding the pavement looking for a Nintendo Wii or Sony PS3, then this should take a load off. We’ve heard from a credible source that Amazon is going to start selling both game consoles “in the coming days.” “…

Now it’s Michael’s blog and he can do what he wants. I sense perhaps a change in his vision for TC, though. Whatever. I still enjoy reading it.

And then Natali was hired. As with any employer, I assume that Natali is doing what her employer wants her to do. If the direction of TC is changing then perhaps Michael is the one who folks need to hash this out with.

I DO know that this endless pile-on on Natali and her posts and the condescending treatment of her is getting tiresome. If posters were piling all this crap on some newly hired dude, I bet that he would have already told you to f#%k off — in one way or another. Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be polite.

So here’s my suggestion. If you’re that unhappy with TC, go read something else. Otherwise, why don’t you STFU about Natalie this and Natalie that and everything sucks.

Oh, and Michael, how about standing up for your employees? Sitting there and letting her take all the hits for your changing vision is tacky, dude.

Hang in there Natali. Don’t let the bastards get you down.

Where’s the beef? According to Michael a few weeks ago with Guy Kawasaki, you guys receive a steady stream of startups every day looking for coverage. I would expect to learn about at least one new startup a day…and to learn more than just-the-facts stats.

Please, please, please focus on introducing your readers to Internet startups again! Or write about interesting up-and-coming websites like Marcus Frind’s PlentyOfFish.com, who is a one-man band kicking the pants off of much larger paid online dating sites. I could find only a paragraph of TC coverage here: http://www.tech...s-to-find-love/ I find it completely fascinating what Marcus is accomplishing by himself. TC’s coverage of PlentyOfFish would have you believe it is nothing special…but indeed Marcus has a hugely important and interesting story to be told and analyzed by the startup crowd.

Every non-startup story you post is yet another interesting Internet company/service you didn’t provide me and your readers an opportunity to learn about. I don’t even care if you feel the company “deserves” coverage…let your readers determine that. Also, why not post a list of all the companies that get rejected for a write-up? That would be a great source of information, too.

Reporting on the small no-name underdogs is much more interesting than yet another Google/Yahoo/Amazon/MySpace story. Your readers are more than likely to be working at the underdog companies, not at the category leaders. Help us dream our dreams as the underdogs!

I shouldn’t have to be writing this. TC is plugged into the Internet startup scene more than possibly anyone else. You are doing everyone a great disservice. You are wasting the time of the startups forwarding themselves to you, and you are sitting on information you are not sharing with your readers.

If you can’t honor the passion about startups contained in your mission statement on your About page, then be courteous and announce to everybody your new focus (or lack thereof) so we can read someone else’s blog to find leading-edge news about Internet startups.

Not removing comments because you disagree with them.