Forbes Picks Techdirt As Best Tech Blog
from the gee,-thanks.--it's-an-honor-just-being-nominated... dept
Forbes today came out with their list of five best tech blogs and right in there at number 2 is Techdirt (following, of course, Slashdot). There's a poll where you can vote, which will (of course) be overwhelmed by Slashdotters, but that's okay. As the Techdirt blurb (very nicely) points out, "when the programmers are reading Slashdot, their bosses are reading Techdirt." Anyway, in all honesty, all five of the blogs on the list are quite good, and deserve some votes - as do any number of great technology blogs that didn't make the list.
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Hooray!
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Congratulations from the site troll
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Now if I can just get Forbes to recognize me as the best blog by a guy who shares a name with a celebrity...
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Congratulations
-longtime reader
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Damn Straight!
Congratulations!
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Congratulations...
But may a pox befall whoever put that article together. Auto loading pages that forward to the next before you can finish reading, a "stop" that does not stay in effect when you manually advance to the next. And "that" was only accomplished after loading the subpage of the article a second time (after the first launched itself into a survey / ad page that took you away from the story). Garrrrrrrrrrr!
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Whoo hoo!
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Congrats...
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Insult?
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Go Techdirt!
My favorite places on the net in no specific order
Bluewsnews
Techdirt
Slashdot
Drudgereport
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Can he keep it up?
It's unlikely that Mike will write any anti-Forbes articles now, and before long, he may start writing about the virtues of a flat tax. When/if he gets funding to expand the site, perhaps it will have more product endorsements, cheesey flash graphics, sugary buzzwords like "positive thinking".
But, I am not sure.
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Re: Can he keep it up?
So it will appeal more to you, God I hope not.
Keep up the good work Mike.
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Sorry for the delay
Yeah Mike ! Sorry for the delay in posting your congratulations... I have one of those "no posting from work " jobs.. but I agree with Chris to the max. Basking in your reflected glory has made me look good to my boss more than once. Thank you for such a great job in choosing your stories.
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congrats!
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i read your blog every day and think its one of the best pages i visit. you deserve the praise for your efforts. well done :)
SatArC
;p
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Forbs???
20 IQ points.
Remember, there's good press and there's bad press. Only when you're not getting *any* press is all press good press.
Sort'a like sex... you want to be selective... if you can... If you can't, to quote Dennis Hopper, fsck anything the moves.
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Congrats...
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Well Deserved
MLO
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Second, it's unbelievable that Kuro5hin.org has made a list of anything remotely positive, what with its hoardes of impossibly sanctimoneous and inhumanly boring readers. While it is reassuring to have Kuro5hin around in order to give these people an outlet and to avoid having them pollute anything remotely interesting on the web, its inclusion in this list of TECH weblogs cheapens the entire thing. At least the equally self-important Slashdot sheep have the first clue of what is actually what. If there is a more boring web site than Kuro5hin on the internet, it will surely collapse under its own immense gravity.
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Congrats!
Great job and congratulations!
Todd
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well done
Sean...
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