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• Gabe Rivera - October 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pm PDT

  I hope Erick won’t be upset that this is the first thing I thought of: http://upload.w...Tourist_guy.jpg

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    Erick Schonfeld (@erickschonfeld) - October 14th, 2009 at 8:44 pm PDT

    I find that picture very disturbing. But, yeah, the backdrop in the video is pretty bad too.

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      Robert Oschler (@roschler) - October 16th, 2009 at 12:17 am PDT

      Amazing interview Erick. Honest too. Diogenes would be proud.

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  FooBar7 - October 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pm PDT

  I know a good barber for Erick (after the interview of coarse)

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    Asscan Carbsfoodfight - October 16th, 2009 at 11:06 am PDT

    Schoney needs a little more than just a haircut. But it could be a good start.

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  meng - October 14th, 2009 at 3:07 pm PDT

  i have a good opinion of Techcrunch

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  Robert Oschler (@roschler) - October 14th, 2009 at 6:37 pm PDT

  The video was fascinating, especially Erick’s comments about how he works a story. Talk about the observer affecting the observed by observing it. To recapitulate his strategy: Post a short post that is fact checked but that is really a query in disguise since it contains a potentially reputation damaging statement or alternatively a source of major industry intrigue, thus forcing the query’s subject to respond and thereby fill out the rest of the story.

  This only confirms further my view of the power tech blogs like the Crunch family as a King’s Court, where companies are forced to pay attention to the court because of the damage that might happen to their bottom line if they don’t. In addition, you have those seeking favor from the court who visit the court leaving comments, trying to get the King’s attention, and kissing the King’s ring hoping to gain favor in the form of coverage. This creates an ecosystem that feeds on itself, making the King and court more powerful over time as their influence grows over time, which only further intensifies the fervent cries for attention from the outsiders and suitors and thus creating a feedback loop.

  Wow. Several centuries from the Victorian era yet we still find the same power structures resurfacing, this time in digital and virtual form.

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    Erick Schonfeld (@erickschonfeld) - October 14th, 2009 at 8:47 pm PDT

    And you should see the costumes we wear at the office.

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  Willem - October 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pm PDT

  Who the f*&$ cares? Don’t we get enough navel gazing from the mainstream media.

  More like kissing the king’s A$$. BOOOOOOOORING.

  Either give us the news or hit the deadpool like Business 2.0. This interview was just as vapid as Business 2.0 became.

  Nobody gives a flying f*&#$ what Lou Dobbs, Keith Olberman or Glenn Beck or Michael Arrington, o Erick Schonefeld think. You’ve lost your credibility based on topic choices that enough readers have detailed here in various comment threads.

  No wonder you have to be a writer because you have no idea how to make an interview captivating or how to express yourself in a verbally articulate way. Enough of tech geeks trying to be TV stars.

  Sorry, I’m not trying to pick on you, but this is another example of Techcrunch’s further evolution into arrogance and irrelevance and a complete waste of my f*&$ing time.

  Get over yourselves and position yourselves more from the viewpoint of your readers. And look at the camera (your readers) once in a while. How amateur.

  If you don’t believe me, try and sit through this crap for over 41 minutews yourself. CLICK!

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    James - October 14th, 2009 at 10:17 pm PDT

    Looks/sounds like you have plenty of time to waste. Don’t like techcrunch? Go elsewhere. If you didn’t like what they post, you’d do that. But you didn’t…

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  Sanchize - October 14th, 2009 at 11:45 pm PDT

  Erick is muy feo.

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  Engago Team (@Engago) - October 15th, 2009 at 12:13 am PDT

  Every time a King is crowned, the King enjoys his reign.
  Soon the King’s servants find out the market has moved on, but they don’t tell him.
  Whatever the King does his popularity declines.
  Then the revolution comes and the King gets killed.
  Then the new King is crowned.

  Where are we currently ?

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