Congratulations to Matt Marshall, who’s left his job as a full time journalist and writer of the popular SiliconBeat blog at the Mercury News to launch VentureBeat. The site, which was created by RubyRedLabs in San Francisco, is well designed and I can tell this will be a daily read in addition to Alarm Clock and other sites covering the venture backed startup world.
We’ll be linking to VentureBeat often at TechCrunch. Welcome to the world of independent journalism, Matt!
Bummer that the site is down this morning with all the publicity it has been getting. Wonder what’s going on? I keep getting either no page displayed or a wordpress admin error.
Hmm, nice job Mike, I think you Crunch’d him, or whatever you would call the Digg effect applied to your blog.
Congrats to Matt. A good move for him, especially considering the tumultuous changes going on at the Merc.
It’s still down. Poor guy needs better hosting.
Where’s net neutrality when you need it
I think Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Matt Marshall, Rafat Ali, Tom Foremski, John Furrier and Robert Scoble should work together. Make an alliance. Coordinate your efforts. Build the next media empire.
My Dream Media Team
http://divedi.blogspot.com/2005/12/my-dream-media-team.html
I have forgotten Danny Sullivan.
Still down. WordPress?
Every journalist can now be their own brand – would love to see a graph showing the explosion in reporting, reporters and commentary now available in the world.