Comments on: Fossett Wreckage and Belongings Found

By: Biig Bear

Biig Bear — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:34:52 +0000

I really, REALLY, don’t think techcrunch needs to pull any such pranks to get a trivial amount of traffic…

I actually found this story both interesting and relevant. We all hype people who have “made it” financially and are/we’re living their dream. This is Techcrunch.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:18:30 +0000

fixed. see below

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:18:04 +0000

fixed the link. goes to the cnn story. The original story had bum HTML.

By: DaveS

DaveS — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:36:52 +0000

No body found however. Is Steve Fossett in South America like insurance company is claiming?!

By: anwar

anwar — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:13:21 +0000

“a modicum of respect” …. wow.

By: Multus

Multus — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:12:04 +0000

I hope the family gets some answers.

By: itchy

itchy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:07:13 +0000

shitty linking guys. have some class.

By: G

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:05:26 +0000

Steve Fossett was somone who inspired many of us to dare – entrepreneurs, common folk and just about everyone who took time to read into his life. Great place to mention him – and hope this is not a hoax – and his family and friends find closure. Good post John – keep up the coverage and let us know if there is indeed closure.

By: idont

idont — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:59:32 +0000

I re-read the about page of Techcrunch, and I think that this kind of post and many cross-posts related to “crunchgear” are out of Techcrunch’s “mission”. (This does not mean they are not interesting).

Why is the focus being lost? It also seems that posts are more and more focused on the speed of publication instead of the value added of information.

Instead of quickly and simply copy-pasting Reuters (or press releases) “to be the first”, why not posting a few hours after with a more “Techcrunch’s mission” focused article? (Amazon may have some information to provide with Turk for exemple).

By: brian

brian — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:50:47 +0000

john,

i agree that it’s tech-related, and for that it does have a purpose on this site.

however, as a reader of this blog i have some issue with how you presented the information:

first, why make us go to cruchgear first when it’s obvious that your report is based on a cnn video? why not just send us to cnn? you’re wasting our time to apparently increase page views at cruchgear. this does not appear to be ethical.

second, you could’ve referenced amazon’s work in this to add in the tech community’s involvement with the rescue efforts – whether they assisted in finding him or not – with links to the article that michael wrote back in september of last year (http://www.tech...echanical-turk/).

the heat you’re taking for this article may have been quelled by taking simple steps like these before you published the article.

By: More Steve Fossett Wreckage Videos

More Steve Fossett Wreckage Videos — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:45:43 +0000

We never now how our life will end

By: BS

BS — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:41:36 +0000

Biggs, take your BS and sarcasm and shove it. How about YOU show some respect to the man, and not expoit his death with a non-article purely positioned for page views.

you clown.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:22:34 +0000

This is a fairly general-interest tech-related story and I’m sure if one of you Web 2.0 or tech CEOs – which I’m sure all you commentors are – were lost or, god forbid, killed, you’d like someone to think your story was worth discussing, even in passing. These sorts of stories are part of our industry and folks like Fosset deserve at least a blurb about their passing or, barring that, a modicum of respect.

By: Mo Kakwan

Mo Kakwan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:18:27 +0000

I suppose many of you didn’t get involved when Fosset disappeared. They put up an updated map of the area which you could download into google earth and then search for the shadow of his plane. I loaded up the map hoping to help.

They even uploaded the pictures to the Mechanical Turk to help with the search effort.

Read the previous article on the search effort and it should make sense why this is here. ( http://www.tech...echanical-turk/ )

Thanks for the follow up, John.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:51:36 +0000

Yeah – this does seem fine here. I think I first heard about this story on Tech Crunch (I could be mistaken, but that’s what I remember), so seems reasonable to follow up.

By: William Ahouma

William Ahouma — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:35:55 +0000

You’re right SaiPrasad! Actually, this is the (only acceptable) reason this “ongoing” story was first mentionned here on Techcrunch: Google being involved in the search for the plane/body

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:32:04 +0000

Why is this on TechCrunch? (Aside from artificially increasing traffic to CrunchGear, which seems to be mostly what TechCrunch is about these days?)

By: SaiPrasad

SaiPrasad — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:49:33 +0000

Would be interesting to see how close Amazon Turk and Google’s efforts were to this location.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:48:16 +0000

This is a pathetic attempt to drive people over from Twitter to this web site just to increase page hits. I think it’s time that someone got removed from my twitter list.

By: Jim McNelis

Jim McNelis — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:46:17 +0000

I for one have no issue with this news story on this blog. It seems appropriate to me. /shrug

By: TechCrunch Hater

TechCrunch Hater — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:35:06 +0000

So, a post on TechCrunch talking about the wreckage links to another post on CrunchGear talking about the wreckage, making me click through to CrunchGear in order to get the link to the actual news. I fail to see how this makes any sense whatsoever unless it’s done solely to increase clicks.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:22:27 +0000

I don’t know about the quality of posts dropping, but this is certainly a strange choice for this site. John, don’t you have a personal blog you can post general news on? I see the occasionally questionable post, but they usually have SOMETHING to do with technology. I actually clicked the “Read more” expecting some link, but no.

By: idont

idont — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:09:02 +0000

What is the common point between this post and Techcrunch?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:04:01 +0000

until they find a body i still consider this a hoax

By: Andrei

Andrei — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:59:13 +0000

oh please…