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Does TechCrunch add anything to this story? Seems like we could have just linked to Woot.com instead of a page of quotes and a quip that TC doesn't talk about t
by ynniv 16y ago
Does TechCrunch add anything to this story? Seems like we could have just linked to Woot.com instead of a page of quotes and a quip that TC doesn't talk about the AP.
- iamdave 16y agoIt's TechCrunch.
- chime 16y agoIt brings the story to attention, just like HN does. TC does it with link + headline + text + discussion. HN does link + headline + discussion. I don't see a problem with that. Edit: Why the down-votes?
- tptacek 16y agoProbably because you can say the same thing about all blog spam.
- superuser2 16y agoNot really. TechCrunch is in my Rss reader; Woot is not. Most blogspam is on little unheard-of blogs to make a few bucks on ad revenue from that particular post; TechCrunch serves as an aggregator, kind of like HN.
- vollmond 16y agoThe difference to me is that HN doesn't reproduce the content of the source - interesting discussion here tends to drive me to the source site, giving them the benefit. TC gives enough info and commentary in their summary that I rarely go to the source, robbing them (in a way of speaking) of my eyes.
- superuser2 16y agoSometimes they quote/summarize too much rather than directing you to the source, I'll grant you that, but as a website TC still has its place. If I want information about who's getting funded/doing what, that's where I go. I don't think it should cease to exist. But I agree with you that aggregators shouldn't link to sites like TC, but rather the original source.
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- zck 16y agoThey're a news aggregator; there's no reason to post this article here. If they had additional commentary, then there might be. Like the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) say, "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter".
- natep 16y agoThe link will still point to this story tomorrow. Honest question, do you know if each blurb on the front page of Woot has a permalink?
- hundredwatt 16y agohttp://www.woot.com/Blog/ http://www.woot.com/Blog/
- natep 16y agook, then yes, it may have been a better idea to link to http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=13420 http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=13420
- NathanKP 16y agoThat is an ugly permalink. Why aren't they running WordPress with more SEO friendly permalinks?
- warfangle 16y agoBecause their blogging platform (and their site) runs on ASP.net? Haven't worked with ASP.net in years, but afaik it's hard to do custom URL routing in it. (Basically, ASP.net doesn't let you do things you can shoot yourself in the foot with, but that doesn't keep you from shooting yourself in the foot in the language: I remember running into an issue a back-end developer I was working with had with returning JSON from a webservice. We ended up wrapping the JSON in an XML document to make ASP.net happy)
- peteysd 16y agoIt's not hard. With a tool like UrlRewriter.Net or similar, custom URL schemes are quite easy. And I believe the MVC framework for .Net has custom routes built in.
- pavs 16y agoI can't help but feel that TC has become the ebaumsworld of tech blog. Nothing interesting, intellectual, relevant; just grab whatever you find on the internet, copy paste 90% of the contents and BAM you have a blog post. I think TC suffers from the same disease as Gizmodo, where the "authors" are encouraged to do whatever they want as long as it brings in traffic. They get bonus on traffic, who cares if its silly even for high-school standard.
- jkincaid 16y agoThis is totally false. We don't get a bonus based on traffic, and we never have (and hopefully never will).
- erlanger 16y agoBut give them credit, they're all set to release this revolutionary e-book reader. They, erm, walk the walk.
- dzlobin 16y agoYou call out TC for adding nothing interesting or relevant, and go ahead to say the same thing that 12 other people say at every TC post on HN. As well as adding a false statement about their process. We get it, a lot of people don't like TC.
- tcdent 16y ago
- jeebusroxors 16y agoWell they DID casually mention they did this same stunt years ago... and it’s actually similar to something we did a couple years ago, trying to charge the AP $12.50 for their usage of quotes from us.
- aaronbrethorst 16y agoAnything that keeps MG Siegler from writing another post about Apple, Foursquare or Twitter for even a few minutes is a huge win in my book.
- robobenjie 16y agoI actually visited woot.com today, saw the headphones and moved on. It wasn't until the techcrunch article pointed me back to it that I read the whole thing. The TC points you to the right bit. Although I suppose that could have been done with a clever title.