Matt Marshall has taught me a lot of things. When it comes to writing, one of the most important ones is not to bury the lede. So I’ll come right out with it: Yes, I’m leaving VentureBeat and joining TechCrunch.
A lot of you have probably already read Matt’s nice send-off, and perhaps some want more [...]

Last year, I was completely overwhelmed by SXSW. I had just started working full time for VentureBeat, and wasn’t yet fully aware of how to handle this whole blogging-as-a-profession thing, let alone how to cover a huge conference. And one that has a Spring Break element to it on top of it all.
This year, I [...]

What the fuck is wrong with Engadget? I’m not going to go too far into this since their commenters seem to be doing a pretty decent job as is, but here’s what they had to say today about our VentureBeat piece on the whole multi-touch thing with Google and Apple:
So we’ve been watching this sketchily-sourced [...]

It’s Christmas Eve, above is my most favorite holiday card of all.
Today, VentureBeat, the site I work for, secured the #3 spot on the Techmeme Leaderboard for the first time. Amazingly, one year ago, while the current #1 and #2 (TechCrunch and CNET, respectively) were in the exact same positions, VentureBeat was all the way [...]

So yeah, Valleywag gave me shit for writing about Pownce the other day, saying I should have disclosed any type of relationship I have with one of its co-founders. I suppose that could be up for interpretation…maybe, but here’s my take.
1) That’s one of the beats (micro-messaging/micro-blogging) the I write about daily on VentureBeat. I’ve [...]

Steven Hodson wrote a good post about the various types of bloggers out there and some of the motivating factors behind it. In it he names me as a prime example of a blogger working for a larger network (in this case VentureBeat) biding my time and putting food on the table while I wait [...]

Some of you may know Newsweek columnist (formerly with Forbes) Dan Lyons. If not, you almost certainly know his alter ego: Fake Steve Jobs.
Lyons recently called it quits on The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, but now is back with “Real Dan Lyons.” Naturally, it’s really good stuff, and I’m very pleased he added a [...]

Some of you may know that a little thing called the iPhone 3G is hitting stores at 8 AM on Friday. Like any good fanboy, I’m going to suck it up and camp out tomorrow night in front of an Apple store.
But it’s for work – I swear! I’ll be blogging, taking pictures and maybe [...]