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Re: Is it Duncan Riley, or is it Techmeme?

leigh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:56 -0000

I find it interesting that if Duncan doesn't get on Techmeme it's bc Gabe doesn't like him. If Scoble doesn't get on Techmeme it's bc Scoble has shifted his focus and doesn't care about Techmeme. If I don't get on Techmeme I guess it's just cuz other people have more interesting content than me? No slag to all the "A" listers (whatever you wanna call them) but often I've written things and then days later months later they do and they end of on Techmeme and I didn't. I don't take it personally. I don't think Gabe hates me (actually i'm quite sure in my case Gabe has no clue who i am). That's just the way the "A" list blogger ball bounces.

Re: Is it Duncan Riley, or is it Techmeme?

mathewi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:11:09 -0000

I admit it probably doesn't interest that many people, but it
interests me -- and it's my blog, which means (I'm pretty sure) that I
get to write about whatever I want. By definition, some things are
only going to appeal to a small number of people -- and some
(possibly) might appeal to none at all. Plus, it was late at night :-)

Re: Is it Duncan Riley, or is it Techmeme?

John K — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:47:15 -0000

Of all the things you can write about, it's this?

Re: Is it Duncan Riley, or is it Techmeme?

mathewi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:05:05 -0000

Thanks, Gabe. I figured as much.

Re: Is it Duncan Riley, or is it Techmeme?

GabeRivera — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:27:52 -0000

So I learned of Duncan's odd little war with Mike when he complained (without merit) that TechCrunch interlinking was gaming Techmeme. That gave way to accusations that he'd been banned, which gave way to my favorite so far: that Mike asked me to manually remove one particular link to Duncan's blog, while leaving the rest intact. At that point I knew I was part of the story in Duncan's head, and said as much here http://friendfeed.com/e/2edaf624-8301-4f12-a1bc... (see "please disregard...").

John: that's the most socially awkward thing I've read all week. If we ever meet again, whoever you are, could you not...study me...so much? Thanks.

Re: Is it Duncan Riley, or is it Techmeme?

jbminn — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:13:04 -0000

No one will know - ever - unless Gabe publishes his code. He's unlikely to do that, so this [type of accusation] will remain unprovable in either direction.

I've met Gabe & Mike and have seen them interact. Gabe came off as socially awkward (not that there's anything wrong w/ that), and seemingly very interested in what Mike A thought. But that was 2 1/2 years ago. No idea if my impression means anything to anyone but me - but I clearly saw a behavior that could have morphed into this.

Did it? No effing idea.