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  Adam Ostrow

  7 months ago

  Great headline Mathew. I actually laughed out loud :-)
  
  Couldn't agree more with the story too, but it's all about the headline these days anyhow right?
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  mathewi

  7 months ago

  Thanks, Adam. And I realize I'm engaging in the same sort of thing.
  But at least I have a point :-)
  
  
  On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Disqus
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  Cynthia Brumfield

  7 months ago

  "For a blogger, both of these pieces would be forgiveable." hmmm....
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  mathewi

  7 months ago

  Okay, maybe not forgiveable, Cynthia -- understandable, perhaps :-)
  
  
  On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Disqus
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  DC Crowley

  7 months ago

  I remember lots of people dancing and singing about the death of Facebook, when Open Social (a 2 bit widget piece of crap that nobody talks about any more). The Social Graph API could be something amazing though. Facebook numbers going down is big news, but hardly the end. In a years time we can see a real trend. The fact that Fox news is reporting this guy says a lot about Fox news as well.
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  rodney rumford

  7 months ago

  Matthew. Nice insights. I agree 100%. This guy is totally clueless. I published an article about this yesterday here. I think PC magazines reporting is in a death spiral. ;)
  
  http://facereviews.com/2008/02/25/pc-magazine-p...
  
  Cheers!
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  mathewi

  7 months ago

  Thanks, Rodney -- just a small thing in your piece: the newspaper I
  work for is the Globe and Mail, not the Globe and Sun.
  
  
  On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Disqus
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  JoeDuck

  7 months ago

  For a blogger, both of these pieces would be forgiveable
  
  Matt you need to do an article on the different standards you apply when writing here vs writing for the paper. Mike Arrington seems to bristle at the notion that standards of quality/accuracy are different in blogs vs mainstream, but as you note they are different....
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  mathewi

  7 months ago

  See my comment above, Joe. I guess what I meant wasn't forgiveable,
  but understandable. I'm not saying bloggers should get away with that
  kind of thing either.
  
  
  On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Disqus
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  howardlindzon

  7 months ago

  the only sad thing is that it got picked up anyway and wasted space on Techmeme and that you dorks are talking about PC Mag :)
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  mathewi

  7 months ago

  Hey, who are you calling dorks? :-)
  
  
  On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Disqus
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  Ivor Tossell

  7 months ago

  I dunno. In fairness, I've been busy declaring Facebook over for ages. In fact, I'm increasingly convinced that the more popular Facebook becomes, the more over it gets. The trick is to leave oneself some wiggle room with the definition of "over"...
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  mathewi

  7 months ago

  That's true, Ivor -- but some of your arguments actually make sense.
  
  
  On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Disqus
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  felix

  7 months ago

  Heh, that piece was mildly crazy talk. An argument could be made that Facebook's past prime, unfortunately, Lance didn't make it. I didn't realize that he's Editor in Chief... that makes it even more sad.
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  Cal Thompson

  7 months ago

  jeez, what a mean-spirited dick. bad enough that you slime ulanoff - whose record over the last two decades plus stacks up quite well among the reading public - but your two paragraph drive-by attack is wholly devoid of cogent analysis or convincing argument.
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  mathewi

  7 months ago

  Thanks for the comment, Cal. I could have easily dismantled Lance's
  piece with cogent argument, but to tell you the truth, it really
  didn't seem worth it. He apparently spent only a few minutes and
  virtually no brain power putting his column together, so I thought I
  would do likewise.
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