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for a long time, techcrunch has been on the same low level that gawker and allthingsd have been producing. they're all pretty much TMZ for tech, with various results.

That's how they justify posting every article to HN/Reddit/etc. "Online means relevant!"

I hope you're not insinuating that every internal memo that Kara Swisher gets BCC'd on isn't actually worthy of some smartass blog post.

Seriously though, it's funny to see Swisher post every lame email from Yahoo corporate and write about it like it's the second coming of investigative journalism.

It's hard to be a decent journalist, sometimes too hard.

No one finds the next big thing. People find little things and build them into the next big thing.

Maybe in the Internet web application business. Not true elsewhere.

i disagree with your disagreement. how big something is irrelevant. more relevant is your execution.

crap + well executed => big return

the next big thing + poorly execute => wait for someone else to get rich off of it

this is the only valid response to any techcrunch article on hn.