Comments on: The real reason fanboys hate tech reporters http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/ Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new content startup. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1-10026 hourly 1 By: Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-67339 Ryan Block Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:51:25 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/#comment-67339 Noted! Noted!

]]> By: Mitchel Tyrell http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-67335 Mitchel Tyrell Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:35:26 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/#comment-67335 Well written response, I retrack my claws. I'd appreciate a x-brand free version of the feed, you have already done well with the non-covension news versions of your feeds. Just please make sure that snark doesn't reach Gizmodo-levels. Well written response, I retrack my claws. I’d appreciate a x-brand free version of the feed, you have already done well with the non-covension news versions of your feeds. Just please make sure that snark doesn’t reach Gizmodo-levels.

]]> By: Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-67327 Ryan Block Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:27:02 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/#comment-67327 Sure, but how many other companies make their own consumer laptop / desktop lines, OS, desktop software suite, media players, cellphones, online media stores, and a worldwide retail chain? Sony does do a lot of those things, but it's not quite close enough (and for the record, we cover the hell out of Sony). For better or worse, there is simply more news surrounding Apple than any other company in the gadget-sphere. You could argue we are too dilligent about covering it all, sure, but that's our job -- wall-to-wall gadget news coverage -- and I think we do it well enough. To meet your point, though, I would like to be able to offer our readers RSS feeds free of certain companies (like Apple or MSFT), but until that day you've got Yahoo Pipes. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ Sure, but how many other companies make their own consumer laptop / desktop lines, OS, desktop software suite, media players, cellphones, online media stores, and a worldwide retail chain? Sony does do a lot of those things, but it’s not quite close enough (and for the record, we cover the hell out of Sony). For better or worse, there is simply more news surrounding Apple than any other company in the gadget-sphere. You could argue we are too dilligent about covering it all, sure, but that’s our job — wall-to-wall gadget news coverage — and I think we do it well enough. To meet your point, though, I would like to be able to offer our readers RSS feeds free of certain companies (like Apple or MSFT), but until that day you’ve got Yahoo Pipes. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

]]> By: Mitchel Tyrell http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-67325 Mitchel Tyrell Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:52:11 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/#comment-67325 "So you think if it was Leopard toilet paper I wouldn’t have covered it or something?" If anything I'm shocked that you didn't title this story as 'OMG Microsoft copies Apple again' http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/mac-se-gutted-converted-into-toilet-paper-dispenser/ So here is my question on even handedness, total up the number of stories written on engadget per gadget company. Who comes out on top? (And to be fair, engadget is my favorite out of the competition) “So you think if it was Leopard toilet paper I wouldn’t have covered it or something?”

If anything I’m shocked that you didn’t title this story as ‘OMG Microsoft copies Apple again’
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/mac-se-gutted-converted-into-toilet-paper-dispenser/

So here is my question on even handedness, total up the number of stories written on engadget per gadget company. Who comes out on top?
(And to be fair, engadget is my favorite out of the competition)

]]> By: Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-67247 Ryan Block Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:57:31 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/#comment-67247 Mitchel, I'll try not to hold your comment under the context that you have an @live.com email address. So you think if it was Leopard toilet paper I wouldn't have covered it or something? Mitchel, I’ll try not to hold your comment under the context that you have an @live.com email address. So you think if it was Leopard toilet paper I wouldn’t have covered it or something?

]]> By: Mitchel Tyrell http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-67139 Mitchel Tyrell Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:19:14 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/#comment-67139 http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/vista-sp1-sp1-toilet-paper-hit-japan/ Equal weight, no question about that at all. http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/vista-sp1-sp1-toilet-paper-hit-japan/

Equal weight, no question about that at all.

]]> By: Vance http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-66877 Vance Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:40:56 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/03/the-real-reason-fanboys-hate-tech-reporters/#comment-66877 As an attorney, I see this with negotiating deals for my clients as well, and a judge once put it to me very well. He said "I know I have done my job if both sides to a civil case go away unhappy". As an attorney, I see this with negotiating deals for my clients as well, and a judge once put it to me very well. He said “I know I have done my job if both sides to a civil case go away unhappy”.

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