TechCrunch – News that matters

When I woke up today, I saw that finally Norwegian newspapers had opened their eyes towards those bloggers that doesn’t shout the loudest. One of the blogs I’ve been reading for quite some time now, TechCrunch – was mentioned in a Norwegian newspaper (Dagbladet.no). Now, I am sure that there are quite a few Norwegians out there that reads TechCrunch already, though it’s a good reminder for others that there -are- other information sources than Perez Hilton. Being in the computer business myself, I find it interresting to follow what people like Michael Arrington believes is the top-of-the-notch. But one can wonder what goes through peoples minds when they think that their business will be successful if they are just mentioned by him, or well – mentioned by anyone really on TechCrunch and the sister sites.

Sure – getting mentioned by such sites will probably generate a quick boost in interrest; though often in such cases – where people are desperate to get mentioned – it’s usually due to having products that won’t sell unless someone is tricked into believing that this particular product is the very best on the market. Now, if the same people would just concentrate on finalizing their product, and making it better – then they would probably see that they would be far better off. But before you get ready to sharpen your knife and aim for the picture of me to the right here; this is -my- point of view.

Michael himself have announced that he’ll be taking a break from his work at TechCrunch after several incidents lately. Though I do hope we’ll see him back in action as soon as things calm down and people realise that there are actual people behind the blogs.

While TechCrunch keeps up-to-date on what is going on for us tech-freaks, they also have several sister sites that is very well worth visiting. My favourite is CrunchGear – here all types of Gadgets, OS and – well anything that is interresting is posted. I encourage you to take a look at what other things are offered on the TechCrunch sites; and don’t just be dropping by to see what is on the front page, the really interresting things you’ll find on the sister pages (at least in my eyes).

Sister sites of TechCrunch

• CrunchGear
• MobileCrunch
• TechCrunchIT
• CrunchBase

You can find more information about Michael Arrington over at Wikipedia.