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ShitCrunch » Blog Archive » ShitCrunch On CrunchNotes — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:04:06 +0000

[...] We’re honored, pleased, -insert- to be on CrunchNotes, which shows we’re doing our job right: Help balance the hype. Alex Bosworth from SourceLabs posted a good comment on what we are: Itâ€™s not that badâ€¦ You have to admit that TechCrunch helps hype plenty of bad ideas or things that just donâ€™t work, the idea of the blog seems to be to help balance the hype, not attack TechCrunch specifically. [...]

By: John Wehr

John Wehr — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:36:35 +0000

If they’re talking about you, you’re doing something right.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:31:50 +0000

anyone remember fuckedcompany.com? wow that had its hey day. I see techcrunch as the opposite of fuckedcompany. shitcrunch is just a lame rip off both tech crunch and of what Fucked company did and beat you to it YEARS ago. Does anyone have an old FUCKEDCOMPANY tshirt?…ok I guess I should quit now… its just fun saying FuckedCompany.

By: Gary Slinger

Gary Slinger — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:10:41 +0000

I did think that one of the rules:

“#2 – Closed Alpha, Closed Beta, Closed Online, Closed Down”

was pretty funny – and somewhat accurate – though.

By: assaf

assaf — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:38:49 +0000

it just means you’re doing something right.

By: mark evans

mark evans — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:32:54 +0000

michael,
consider it a compliment!

mark

By: Steven Frein

Steven Frein — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:43:59 +0000

With good content comes the bad. People like to take shots at what is hot. Enjoy the fame and avoid the flames.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:09:10 +0000

For better or worse, the owner of the blog you're referring to is now committing a federal crime: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail

By: ryan king

ryan king — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:55:01 +0000

Michael- Thanks for the link. As we talked about earlier tonight, Eran and I both agree that this stuff is just lame. Eran blogged about it tonight and I responded. Now, don't feed the trolls.

By: Alex Bosworth

Alex Bosworth — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:16:43 +0000

It’s not that bad… You have to admit that TechCrunch helps hype plenty of bad ideas or things that just don’t work, the idea of the blog seems to be to help balance the hype, not attack TechCrunch specifically.

Here’s JotLive review: http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/27/jotspot-live-the-perfect-wiki/

Influentials from the valley get more play here even if they don’t make more successful products.

See JotLive’s flatlining traffic vs Chicago 37Signals’ WriteBoard.com:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=6m&size=medium&y=r&url=jotlive.com#top