new york times – Ewan Spence

After Paul Carr’s broadside, MG Siegler goes clinical

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Ewan Spence

The point of all of this is that most of the articles written this past week about TechCrunch have absolutely no idea how TechCrunch works. People think it’s run like The New York Times, but in reality, it’s run much more like a fast-paced blog written by a bunch of individual writers. And that’s exactly why it works. Because we break so many stories and get so much traffic, publications like The New York Times look at us and see themselves. And they shriek in terror at the notion of those involved with the publication investing in what the publication

Read the newspaper on the shelf, or read a few pages online. It’s all the same

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Ewan Spence

For a long time, if you wanted to read the news but couldn’t buy a newspaper, you just surfed in the newsagents. Isn’t that exactly the same model as the New York Times porus pay wall?

Bringing Balance To The [OS] Force…

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Ewan Spence

Quote of the day so far has to be in the New York Times article on Ubuntu, from the man driving the project, Mark Shuttleworth, the Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life. “Look, I have a very privileged life, right?” Mr. Shuttleworth said. “I am a billionaire, bachelor, ex-cosmonaut. Life couldn’t easily be that much better. Being a Linux geek sort of brings balance to the force.” Via the NY Times.