A guy called Nick Gonzalez just left TechCrunch, allegedly giving Mike Arrington the reason (jokingly or otherwise) “I just can’t write about another fucking startup.”
This closely mirrors my feelings, and i'm sure some others about the blog - I just can't read about another fucking startup. The reviews aren't badly written, and I find myself agreeing with many opinions, but it's just not interesting enough unless you're heavily into so called Web 2.0.
Why then, do I stay subscribed? Because when Mike, Mike, Eric and the perhaps blunter Duncan (think that's most of them) actually write about tech business news, and occasionally even technology itself, they do it very well, and often earliest.
At one time I read some of the startup reviews, but at this point yet another Web 2.0 startup's logo in the post is a red flag to skip.
Given that the Crunch family includes a blog dedicated to gadgets, it seems odd that they choose to keep tech news and startup reviews on one main blog.
Perhaps the difficulty is that if they did split it up, they'd have to decide which of the two would *be* the main blog, and I can't be alone in admitting that if that choice was startup reviews, I would end up subscribing to the secondary blog, which of course would hit the traffic stats of the main site, which I can safely assume is a big factor in it's success.
Perhaps the argument would be that there isn't actually a line. Startups are indeed tech news, but let's not pretend an article talking about any given Valley guys latest project is the same as discussing the activities of more established tech companies.
As usual, no problems solved here. I'm definitely not unsubscribing.
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