| November 29, 2006 at 1:20 PM PST
CNET takes a friendly jab at me today, making fun of the fact that I had a typo in a middle-of-the-night post on BitTorrent.
That’s ok, I can take a jab from them. While CNET writers were all cozy in bed last night, Om and I were competing to break the Bittorent story. That’s why blogs will win, and CNET will lose.
[...] Caroline McCarthy at News.com says that Mike Arrington could use a copy editor. I was thinking the other way, that TechCrunch has lost soemthing now that it’s more than Arrington. There was a charm to TC when it was just MA sledding downhill at 80,000 MPH on the seat of his pants. [...]
[...] The irony of this last comment does not go unnoticed, writes in his personal blog, “That’s ok, I can take a jab from them. While CNET writers were all cozy in bed last night, Om and I were competing to break the Bittorent story. That’s why blogs will win, and CNET will lose.” Personally, I see typographical mistakes as totally insignificant and just a fact of life when you don’t have a copy editor. Spelling a word or two wrong does not mean a story was not researched well or that it does not have merit- things like this are simply one way big media like CNET is trying to combat smaller, more agile, and increasingly popular sites like TechCrunch. [...]
Bulls-eye
[...] Caroline McCarthy a NY-beat reporter for CNET gets on Arrington’s case over typos in the name “BitTorrent.” This has gotta be a slow news day for the CNET folks. Here’s Arrington’s response for the curious. I met Caroline a few months back, and I liked her, so I’ll cut her a break. [...]
Awesome. Long live blogs.
Nice zing, but she’s right, you could use a copy editor.
I’m all for copy editors. The joke is that CNET should be worried about its own poor copy. It needs a new editor more than any blog.
I’m surprised that the name of the blog listing the error is “CNET’s Look at Online Applications” instead of “CNET’s Look at All of Mike Arrington’s Mistakes.”
I think this called for the classic ‘I see what you did there‘.
[...] CrunchNotes: Am I Under CNET’s Skin? [...]
Aww, cute.
This typo is less bad than this Belgian major financial newspaper that wrote about Web 2.0 and referred to flicker.com together with a screenshot of this site (a page only with sponsored links) instead of flickr.com.
screw her/them. i like the occasional typo. that’s the difference between big and small. I guess her boss is on her for not beating the crunchers to the stories.
They are so stupid as to mention you on their site, giving you EXTRA, absolutely FREE publicity. Man they really didn’t understand marketing. Mike, you’d better make some more typos and people will blog about it for free
Mike, I want personally apologise for submitting that CNET story to digg. I should have thought about it first. Everyone makes typos, and you’re no different just because you have hundreds of thousands of readers. A blog’s a blog. Sorry!
I want to*
Damn typos!