I have followed this kid for over a year, and have not seen one BIT of substance come out of any of his work besides the Teens in Tech conference which I have a hard time believing he did much of the work on.

All this coverage and all his “accomplishments” are blown way out of proportion and screamed about by the community simply because, as many have said, he lives in Silicon Valley. There are kids out there who have done FAR more and work FAR harder for FAR less coverage (ex. Dave Moyer – http://davemoyer.org and Chris Thomson – http://chris24.com though Chris has a lower level of activity than before). Is this fair? Absolutely not. Is this covering the REAL work that teens are doing? It doesn’t do that in the slightest, either.

As others have pointed out, Teens in Tech is nothing more than a WPMU site with buzz-word spin put on it simply to generate exactly that: buzz. However, what makes my head spin is that, despite the fact that people are not buying it (check the comments for Jason’s last pointless plug for TIT in addition to this one), it STILL gets covered by pundits who just so happen to be wonderful friends of Daniel.

JASON- I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG YOU’VE BEEN BLOGGING BUT YOUR BLOG READERS AND THEIR NEED FOR ACTUAL CONTENT SHOULD COME OVER YOUR WUNDERKID FRIENDS SOMETIMES.

Wake me up when you’re covering something that we can care about.

COMMENTERS AND TECH MEDIA EVERYWHERE: If you REALLY want to support teens involved in technology, THEN FEATURE THE PEOPLE DOING SOMETHING. This is nothing but insulting to the concept as it shows that work is not necessary but just schmoozing of Silicon Valley sluts like TC as it has proven itself to be.

COME ON, PEOPLE. WAKE UP AND GIVE CREDIT WHERE IT IS DESERVED. Thanks.

Look at the blog networks that are left nowadays. They’re all laying off writers, closing sites, consolidating blogs, lowering payments, and in general, not doing exceptionally well. A few years ago there was a boom in blog networks but now that the business model has had time to run its course, many are seeing them as not such a very good business move.

(Disclosure: I’m a co-founder of 9rules.)

Come on Jason. With Schonfeld reporting completely made-up news (http://www.tech...ta-to-the-riaa/) and Waters nursing his raging hard on for twitter (http://www.tech...r-google-juice/), we expected more from a reporter of substance.

Quit this kiddy bullshit.

I’ve posted a blog post on our company blog explaining in detail why Teens in Tech decided to acquire YBN here.

Thanks for the feedback,

Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder, Teens in Tech

Honestly, I can appreciate that Daniel and his peers are trying their hardest at installing WordPress Mu and acting over-professional for their age, but still: I come to TechCrunch to read newsworthy stories, not encouragement stories.