Oh Look, I've Done 40,000 Techdirt Blog Posts
from the i'd-like-to-thank... dept
It would appear that this post will be my 40,000th blog post on Techdirt. 40,000. And that's just by me. If I include all the other bloggers, there are a bunch more posts. That's a lot of blogging. Along those lines, the Guinness Book of World Records apparently still has 17,212 blog posts by a single person listed as the most prolific. Perhaps it's taking them time to have someone count up all my blog posts. Anyway, it just seemed like a neat milestone that I figured I'd note, along with a huge thank you to folks here in the community who keep coming back and making it worthwhile to write, share and discuss. Here's to the next 40,000...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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40,000 more posts, not gonna happen. Take SOPA, PIPA, then toss in how badly big content dislikes this blog and you are a gonner for sure. ;)
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Thank you!
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That sounded more like someone joking about the annoying number of SOPA-related posts (around half of the posts every day lately, it seems).
I hope SOPA, PIPA, and similar laws get rejected soon, so we can have a better variety of posts around here.
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There's that Hollywood Accounting again.
No wonder you guys think you're losing billions of dollars - you can't count!
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CHEATER!!!!!
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you are 100% correct... you contains no substance.
:p
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Huh
I need a hobby.
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MBA
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This blog has been an important counterpoint to a lot of the industry misinformation out there as well as an outspoken advocate and rallying point for defense of first amendment freedoms.
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At least on this point, Average_Joe, I will concede that you are an authority on the topic of your comment.
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Mike should decide whether he wants to be taken seriously or whether he wants to be the schoolyard gossip. If he wants to be taken seriously, then he needs to do the basic sorts of things that journalists do. Instead, he's all too happy to admit that he doesn't research, fact-check, present both sides, etc. He can't have it both ways.
Just like the pirates, Mike wants to have something that he hasn't earned.
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Dare I, in that case, suggest once again that you go to an outlet that claims to be a source of journalism and not someone's opinion blog if that's what annoys you? There's not a single story written about here that can't be found elsewhere.
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You'd be somewhat surprised at the number of writers who are far, far worse than Mike on this subject...
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I love that you assume no one takes me seriously.
Did you "fact check" that? Because you're wrong.
I also think it's funny that you assume I don't put in such work.
Did you "fact check" that? Because you're wrong.
AJ, just because we've proven you to be wrong time and time again, there's no reason to start making more silly assumptions. It really hurts your credibility.
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Nobody here takes you seriously except your sock puppets, and I expect you have to sneak up on them, too, in order to put them on.
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Legend in his own lunchtime.
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None of which you've ever offered any substantive proof of, but why should you be honest now?
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Mike's so sure that the court's reasoning is wrong--how can this guy's tweets cause a mistrial?--but, of course, Mike didn't actually take a few minutes to find out what the court's actual reasoning was. What kind of an idiot writes a post about how the court's reasoning is wrong without actually looking at what the court's actual reasoning was in the first place?
That sort of idiocy is unfortunately the norm on Techdirt. It's one thing to think the court's reasoning is wrong. It's another to declare it wrong when you don't even know what it is. It took me 10 seconds to find the .pdf of the opinion, and five minutes to skim it to see what the court was saying. If I were going to write a story about how the court got this one wrong, I would have invested those five minutes.
Just because Mike is offering his opinion on things, that doesn't relieve him of the ethical duty to do a bit of research first. Around here it's shoot first and ask questions later, if ever.
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What's to comment on. I stand by the post. I think it's silly to go after someone for tweeting. That I didn't precisely quote the ruling... is really unrelated to the issue.
Why did you (falsely) assume I hadn't read the ruling?
Did you fact check that? No. Of course not. Hypocrite.
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I'm talking about duty and integrity and ethics. I know you don't understand, Mike. I know.
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When discussing meteorology, one does not typically take time to explain that rain is composed of water, or that the earth's atmosphere is composed of "air"; likewise, Mike does not stoop to remedial digression in order to placate the specious demands of a career troll.
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That could actually be pretty cool.
I vote Dark Helmet gets the job of writing the weekly post. :D
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Amen to that.
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Amen to that.
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Nah, too good to be true.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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Congrats Mike!
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Free Doesn't Work
But noooooooo you want to give it all away for free and hurt the people that are trying to charge for their content. Everybody knows that all of top quality content is by paid subscription only, look at the NY Times paywall as a prime example.
Mike, why do you hate the quality content producers?
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Get a good look of how things are here in the real world...
Now bugger off!
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Troll Awayyy :)
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I thought this was going to become one of those annoying "HeadOn" commercials. Heh...
TrollOn! Apply directly to your posts... TrollOn! Apply directly to your posts.
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What does that say about you?
By the way have you contacted the Guiness Book people about this?
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Have i missed anything?
did I miss anything?
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Love You
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Techdirt's Bridge for Wayward Trolls
Just think, if the techdirt didn't put up this homey little online bridge, all these trolls may be homeless right now.
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Quality Vs Quantity
Now you might be able to focus on QUALITY !
I would rather an ounce of gold than a ton of dirt.
and they say practice makes perfect !!!!! what happened ?
But well done 40k is a good score...
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Holy Shit! A pig just flew by my window!
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after 40,000 posts what have he actually achieved ?
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after 40,000 posts what have he actually achieved ?
Heh.
Either you agree Techdirt has some value, and thus you have achieved far less since, as you say, you are not running a blog - or you feel Techdirt is completely worthless, at which point you have actually managed to achieve negative anything by spending all your time commenting here.
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What is your point ?
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What is your point ?
My point was pretty much exactly what you just said. So with that in mind, what's your point darryl? What's the point of all your insane, stream-of-"consciousness" ranting in the comments here?
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as a minimum he achieved a trollop of trolls that follow his every post (and they are even nice enough to comment on his 40k)
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u crazy or just stupid?
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On facts and accuracy, however, darryl is often blissfully adrift in his own world.
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..and thank you.
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Guiness
'nuff said
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Worth it ?
40,000 posts
10,000 hours
2000 hours in a working year
5 years full time work
$44,000 income over 5 years,,, total cost $220,000 dollars.
Priceless !!!
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He would seem to get income from elsewhere ... What's our angle?
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What angle ??? do I have to have an angle ? (ie bias?).
It is a simple analysis...make of it whatever you like..
You are even welcome to build it into some huge conspiracy !!!
Like im actually from your Tax office, and am calculating Masnicks Tax bill !!.
Maybe I am a double agent, working for the RIAA and homeland security !!
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do I care ????
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Can't believe I'm asking this of darryl, but...
(Citation needed)
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Huh?!?
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On another note congrats Mike. I been here for the last few years (not when you started). Ironically I found this blog through the google homepage when they first started doing that. I been an avid reader since.
Congrats again.
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He then takes some random income of $44k (I can only assume he's claiming that's the median income for that type of work), multiplies by 5, and is claiming that Mike's blog cost $220k, because he gave all that content away for free.
And then, for everyone riding darryl's wonderful logic train, we arrive straight to the obvious conclusion:
Why do you hate content companies and love thieving raporists, Mike?
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Ie, he was 'above the curve'...
Did I make any comment about 'content companies' ??
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/990317/0341214.shtml
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So new shirts?
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Do your fingers want early retirement? :)
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Cheers
Here's to the next 40k!
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I've struggled to get to 100 posts on my own blog, I don't know HOW anyone could possibly get to 40,000.
Any ideas for marking this milestone? Perhaps printing up a "best of techdirt" anthology - the top 10,000 posts?
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TechDirt posts 40,000th blog denounces SOPA
Mike has written articles denouncing censorship, state control around the world including the US Congress attempt through SOPA to shut down the internet as we know it.
You don’t have to agree with Mike, although it’s usually better to say nothing back!
Mike believes fervently in Web 2.0 and he backs it up with facts.
Mike believes musicians should get paid by giving people a reason to buy, while supporting free downloads.
Mike believes the record labels and studio executives with their $30 million salaries are selling the public a bill of goods they are losing billions to downloading.
Mike exposed copyright trolls like Righthaven, who have been shaking down consumers with phony copyright law suits.
If SOPA passes, the internet will change forever. Websites can be taken down by frivolous copyright holders, despite protections under the law.
Mike wrote his 40,000th post yesterday. Keep it up Mike. We need those stories.
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