Wow. I am so glad I flew down to Seattle last Thursday on the eve of our all day Real Time event and August Capital party. I got a great story on Redfin turning profitable and saw some unlaunched Animoto video products.
But by far the sweetest moment was a brief comment by the New York Times’ Technology Editor Damon Darlin, who sat on the panel with me. Darlin and I exchanged blows last month, some of you may remember, over the notion of “process journalism.” The panel was the first time I’ve met him in person, and the first time we’d communicated since that story.
He was surprisingly affable in person. And I’ll love him forever for saying that he begins every morning by reading TechCrunch and assigning reporters to follow up on interesting stories:
Darlin: As I was thinking about this this morning as I was thinking about what are the possible questions people are going to be talking about and by prepping by of course, as I do every morning by reading TechCrunch throughout the day, and I thought…(laughter)…no I’m serious, there is so much good stuff on this site, that it is overwhelming, there is stuff I don’t really care about, but there is a lot of stuff that I do want to know and want to tell my reporters, make sure you see this thing, we ought to follow up on that. I’m sure everybody in business looks at that in the same way.
JMA: This is being recorded right? There’s video?
All is forgiven, Darlin. And unlike the A.P., we won’t make any fuss over the idea of Hot News. Just keep linking to us, and we’ll stay happy.
Classic. I’m sure he loves you now!
btw – Why are your wearing sunglasses? Didn’t your momma tell you its rude.
Yes, but does he read the comments? ; )
Maybe they should. Just to get more perspective from the readers point of view. Nevertheless, Congrats TC!!
- Darren at AdExcel dot Com
And I keep close tabs on the milkman when I’m out of town.
Calm yourself.
Hah. NY Times is one of the few old media publications I still read (though mostly online). I’m glad they follow TechCrunch.
You are missing the “We’ll see” at the end of the article.
Hearing that has to feel pretty good.
It’s a big compliment!
It’s even greater now that you say all those nice things about me.
Well this is a cause for celebration!
It would be interesting to see if Damon continues to publicly please people this way moving forward. As my mom used to say, if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
I wonder if, as an editor, Darlin knows how to spell megalomaniac.
Without Firefox spell check I sure wouldn’t. : )
Alot of people would be doing the same too, if they were heavily involved in the internet publishing business. Besides, content is king online, and TechCrunch is where it’s at! (smile)
He was really quiet on the panel. The Times needs to speak up!
Wow Mike. Does this mean you guys have hit the Big Time? (like you hadn’t already).
A good comeback would have been ‘Hey really. That’s great – I read your little blog sometimes too!’
Wow you guys messed up a perfectly good press op WWF style… “ohhhh yea brother! I’ll crunchup your face Damon!” -@arrington You’d have to raise a round just to afford tickets…
WOW! The they are still in business ?! I thought the New York Times went bankrupt a few months ago when they realized they had a dying business model.
Do they still print those newspapers ?
Little known fact: Damon was the very first blogger at Business 2.0 before I took on that role. Pity he doesn’t still blog anymore.
Many bloggers have left blogging for full time jobs!
Others the other way around
At least he’s honest, now Mike gets to call them out more.
I bet you didn’t shake his hand though did you Michael?
awesome ..!!!!
Check out the Fairfax Australia news sites:
* http://www.smh.com.au
* http://www.theage.com.au
* http://www.watoday.com.au
* http://www.bris...anetimes.com.au
I read things on Techcrunch and then several days later if by coincidence an article on the same topic appears on those sites.
I read the SMH every day and have noticed the same thing. They’ve even run an article about TC and Mike Arrington on the site before too .. I think it was when he was flagged as a really influential guy – or something like that. At any rate, it’s not just the NYT that is inspired by some of TC’s posts.
I am a big NYT fan/reader. definitely room for all kinds of journalism. Thankfully in TECH blogs do have a lot of weight and access to important sources (more so in politics every day). But access to sources and first hand research are really important – TechCrunch gets that. So while eschewing so-called “process-journalism” TC still manages to break stories and analyze trends, etc. But the grey lady isn’t going anywhere anytime soon – plus besides reading TC in the mornings they’ve done quite a bit to try to stay current with blogs, videos, etc.
Congratulations TC!
Congratulations to you too my friend
http://www.Arti....com/signup.php
There is a big difference between reporting and writing – I think thats the point he was trying to make. Techcrunch is great at reporting news. NYT is, and should be, about writing about the news. Just because something has happened doesnt necessarily make it relevant to the broader mainstream.