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ETA Bombs Spanish Newspaper

The ETA may or may not have a legitimate goal in demanding Basque independence, but bombing a building full of journalists is no way to win karma points or influence people.

Sarah Lacy Book Tour - I’m In

Sarah Lacy, the author of the book “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good,” is thinking of doing a book tour. Start things off here in Atherton, Sarah. I’ll do the first one at my house. See my interview with Sarah on the new book here.

We Don’t Do Reprints

I’m going with what Mathew Said

I already picked one blog fight today. So on the other issue, I’m going with what Mathew Ingram said.

Dare Obasanjo Quits Blogging

As much as it pissed me off when Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo defaced my wikipedia page to prove some point (what he was really doing was hitting me back for criticizing Microsoft the day before), I’m sad to see him leave blogging. When he wasn’t being a total asshole he had some smart things to say. [...]

TechCrunch Unique Visitors

We get a lot of calls to post our traffic stats, and we’re going to start doing more of that soon. But as a response to this, here are out January uniques from Google analytics, for TechCrunch.com alone.

Nice Job, Mainstream Media

I’d call PC Magazine Editor in Chief Lance Ulanoff’s article about Facebook (reprinted here by Fox News) a hit job, except that it is so utterly devoid of logic and actual analysis that it really can’t be classified as anything other than a sad commentary on the state of technology reporting in mainstream media. His argument [...]

TechCrunch, Peaking, Etc.

A lot of people write a lot of stuff that’s pretty negative about TechCrunch. Since I don’t actually do an ego monitor, we miss most of it. But every once in a while something bubbles up and I see it. Usually I don’t respond because it just encourages more of the same. But today a [...]

Wow, The Last Week Has Been A Nightmare

I have had a terrible flu the last few days. It started last Friday with a fever (the early stages of the flu often feel great when the only symptom is a fever…), but by Monday I was bed ridden. Tuesday morning I just was too sick to even sleep, and just wanted someone to [...]