6 July 2012 1 Comment

Why Wired puffs up Jeff Atwood

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There’s a fine tradition among writers known as the puff piece. For the staffer, it fulfills the requirement that one produce something the medium can publish on a regular basis without requiring a lot of difficult investigation or critical thinking; for the freelancer, it is one more article one can add to the portfolio; and [...]

30 June 2012 0 Comments

Zuckerpunched*

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or If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?** We wrote, in our last issue, about why we thought Facebook’s IPO was going to turn out to be a pig in a poke, and after it was summarily hammered by the market — and followed with the predictable filing of a lawsuit by people who [...]

29 May 2012 4 Comments

No There There: What Went Wrong with the Facebook IPO

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We’ve been paying only marginal attention (not that it was avoidable) to the approach and aftermath of Facebook’s IPO, mostly because our investment portfolio doesn’t include dumping a pile of money into a company that doesn’t seem particularly eager to share in the main benefit of owning its stock: profits. That’s not to say Facebook [...]

22 September 2011 0 Comments

Macy’s should embrace Gimbel’s

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The other day we came across a really interesting blog post written by Rob Conery of TekPub about start-ups, and how most of them get pretty feisty when it comes to talking about their competitors. For a long time, Experts Exchange didn’t have any to speak of, if only because some of the errors EE [...]

19 September 2011 1 Comment

Dear Mr Atwood

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Mr Atwood, There was a time not that long ago when I considered you not quite sociopathic in your disdain for Experts Exchange (I use the term sociopathic because you have been ranting about EE for years but haven’t ever actually used it), but after listening to your podcast of September 14, I realize that [...]