Tech Blogger’s Not Digg’in Life

by StockJockey

Monday, March 10, 2008 - 9:49 am

I have often watched the antics of technology bloggers with a sense of bemusement. They do not always understand Wall Street, as evidenced by their protestations over the Yahoo! deal, among other things. Sorry guys, if you run the company into the ground, you can lose your job.

The recent rise of Alley Insider.com has threatened the supremacy of Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch, and they are playing a game of one upsmanship as they slather on the hype in an effort to out do one another.

Kara Swisher is even getting in on the act, calling the rumor mongering over the potential sale of Digg “completely inaccurate”

First, let’s see if we can sort this latest rumor about the acquisition fever wafting around the popular Digg news site, published by TechCrunch last week.

Its take: That Digg has been pitching itself for sale using bankers from Allen & Co. and was poised to receive high-priced bids from archrivals Microsoft and Google, and also had interest from two unnamed major media companies (a good guess here would be CBS and News Corp.).

How exciting! How dramatic! How gripping!

And: How untrue! Boomtown

The Digg episode is relatively tame to the lashing Sarah Lacy, Business Week columnist co-host of Yahoo!’s Tech Ticker, is receiving over the interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the SXSW gathering this weekend. She was torn to shreds:

As reported here and elsewhere earlier Sunday, Lacy interviewed Zuckerberg as the day’s keynote at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) and in the process, saw the audience of thousands turn against her for a series of stylistic faux-pas.

I won’t rehash all the details here, since you can read up on that in my previous story.

But as pointed out later in the day by Wired News, Lacy followed up the controversy by adding her own thoughts in the form of a Twitter post.

The text of her (very public) post? “Seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things.” c/net

Lacy is claiming that the tech geeks are biased against women, but maybe she should not have used the platform to plug her soon-to-be released book.

Eric Savitz has found out you cannot write a negative piece over Apple, Inc. without getting hate mail. But the acrimony seems to be building as the geeks fire up their lightsabers and begin hacking away at each other.

Zuckberg Interview

The Dirty Job of Digging For Accurate Information
Boomtown

Zuckerberg SXSWi interviewer fans fire with Twitter post
c/net
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