Holiday weekends, especially the ones that bracket the summer months, tend to be stress tests for the tech media. With the proliferation of smart phones, social media aggregators, and of course the Twitter clonestakes, it’s now trivial to get a snapshot of what is going on throughout the “time off.”
Is nothing going on? Has the TechMeme conversation dried up, as Robert Scoble entertainingly baits? Are FriendFeed conversations more viral and link-inducing? Of course. There’s nothing like a few days off to cull the herd and make it achingly clear how parochial the “news” can become. But let’s use the quiet after the cherry bombs subside to measure how far or not we’ve come.
Steve: I know nothing about this “tech media” you speak of. Still, I love the picture.
This is the best time for philosophical postings.
People are able to concentrate and contemplate.
This means the postings can be overviews or analytical or reflective.
There is a better chance of getting more quality replies because of the types of techies who read during the holidays who normally might be too busy
This is the best time for philosophical postings.
Because hopefully most people are away and won’t have to endure another Gillmor post.
Apart from the fact that we think we have a pretty good product and we thought we would get picked up eventually, Regator chose Thursday to emerge from completely nowhere to launch its private beta and to try and get onto to all the main blogs. We thought it would be a fairly slow news day, while everyone else getting ready for the fourth and we had a professional press package that we submitted first thing in the morning.
It was a bit of a risk, but it paid off for us with great coverage on TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable and The Inquisitr among others (as a result). That said, we are out of private beta invites already and we are getting fantastic feedback on the site that we are already using to make the site even better.
Thanks again to TechCrunch for your initial coverage. We look forward to earning many more posts about what we are doing.
Cheers mate,
Scott.
I am going to Vancouver to have fun any way. Hopefully everybody enjoys this weekend. But try to keep away from internet for a while and enjoy life without technology for a day or so!
“Plus ça change”
I have no idea what this means and I’m sure I’m not alone.
@Sean – It’s part of a french saying that translates to “The more things change, the more they stay the same”
Sean, it’s written in french. I am. And I have no idea either of what it means!
Can we have a startup which can decipher such headlines.
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Plus ça change : mean the more it’s change…
For once that being non English native is helpful :p
A.
got it now, steve u should add these little “…” so your title’d gain some meaning though writing for us-audience i guess u dont give a shit
Don’t look now, but somewhere along the line, I think the tide has turned in the battle of Steve vs the aggressive, defensive self-loathing anti-intellectuals.
Maybe I would recognize it if I heard it but I’ve never seen it written before…
Plus ça change, plus c’est pareil.
The more it changes, the more it’s the same.
Du pareil au même
@12 — calling gillmor’s critics “anti-intellectual” gives gillmor too much credit. perhaps you meant “anti-pseudo-intellectual?”
@ 12 pippa
agree
Plus ça change “more can change” , literal translation…. another person of French ancestry weighing in.
Wow I have no idea what I just read, good thing it was short. Hope my link doesn’t get deleted.