Real Dan Lyons Web Site ยป Tech blog roundup

Lyons seems to like to act all high and mighty when it comes to thinking about blogging. But as usual he leaves out a few key things (at least from my perspective).

First, as I’ve said a million times, while he and other people heavily involved in the tech community may read all of the sites he listed, not everyone does.

Second, I was up at 5:30 in the goddamn morning to cover the Apple news. If I didn’t publish first, I published the same time as other sites on the Internet, so anyone reading VB at the time would have read it there first.

Third, I published the Jon Stewart/Twitter thing before any of the other sites he listed.

Fourth, Lyons tells it like all tech blogs do is rehash other news. That’s simply not true, every site he listed has scooped several big stories just in the past few months alone. We will continue to do so. I have a few I’m working on right now, in fact.

I really don’t like to rehash news — believe me, I don’t. Sometimes I’m asked to, and so I’ll always try to add my own take on the matter. Believe it or not, judging from the emails I get, people actually do like to hear what I have to say about some of the bigger topics of the day.

Dan, that horse is a tad too high.

Namaste.

03/03/09
  • Peter Kafka
    Dude. Chill out. Dan's right. But that's no big deal. That's because that's what everyone in every media form does: They talk/write/publish/broadcast/etc stories that people find interesting. Which means that if you look at, say, the sports page from your local paper (if you still have one) and compare it to the one on the Times (or now, um the WSJ) and with ESPN and ESPN.com and ESPN talk radio and your local sports talk radio.. they are all likely to be covering the same topic at any given time. It's nothing to be embarassed about. What's the solution -- find stories no one cares about and run those?

    Yes, proprietary stuff, enterprise stuff, and scoops -- genuine scoops, as opposed to being the fastest to publish something by 30 seconds or 30 minutes -- are worthwhile. And all of us, or many of us, are trying to do that work. But there isn't a single media outlet I can think that only publishes that stuff.

    Shorter version of the above, and shorter version of your post: Just link to Dan's most recent story -- his groundbreaking investigation into Hulu, which heretofore had never, ever, ever been written about.
  • Right -- But I don't know, but it sounds like you agree with me more than Dan, Peter. That's my point, all these sites writing about everything is a part of the way it works. And as you note has worked forever with newspapers and television and the like.

    And I'm not all worked up. If I were, I would be swearing, see: http://parislemon.com/2009/02/you-stay-classy-eng...
  • +1
  • Thanks Mike. And welcome back :)
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