Friday, March 21st, 2008 - 3:42PM
I don’t have a ton of time to get into the storied history of Wired’s year-and-a-half-in-coming profile of Engadget vs Gizmodo, but suffice it to say they spent the better part of five pages taking the typical, obvious angle (ZOMG IT’S LIKE A FRAT WAR WITH GADGET BLOGS LOL), missing the real story right under their noses: that we were right there redefining the face of tech media, and everyone — CNET, NY Times, even Wired — had to change up their game to adapt. (Most of them only did so too late, which is part of the reason why we wound up on top.) But that’s not really as fun as getting David Pogue to comment on blogger gaffes and his perceived immaturity of the medium. That’s not to say the thing was a complete wash, there’s some worthwhile stuff and I think they kind of got a bit of the essence of both publications, but I just find all this rivalry stuff so passé. It’s really not all it’s cracked up to be, believe me.
Anywho, aside, for those interested in hearing me ramble about what’s up with Apple doing music subscriptions, I’ll be on G4’s Attack of the Show tonight. See you there!
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 - 12:10AM
Headed out to New York tomorrow for the Greener Gadgets Conference, which I expect should be really enlightening. As usual, not staying nearly long enough to fall back in love — but I’ll definitely be around more than long enough to remember how freezing cold it gets.
It’s fortuitous timing, though, because that during my last visit in November I was profiled by On The Inside, which just went live this month. It’s probably way more detail than anyone really wants about me and my relationship with The City (still, thanks Thomas!), but the idea is to get a window into one’s relationship with New York through the recommendation of some off the beaten track spots. Some of mine that made it in are: Barcade, Otafuku, the MoMA Design Store, and May Wah.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 - 10:27PM
Not that we’re out of the woods just quite yet, but there’s a certain sense of relief when everyone gets to go home, recover and tend to their wounds, and officially say we’ve made it over the CES / Macworld hump — by far the hardest two weeks of the year.
Of course, it wasn’t all grins of pride. Despite a stellar CES performance and an equally stellar Macworld run-up, we had some major hiccups on the site today. Post-mortem on that coming ASAP — don’t worry, it’ll be the detailed-as-I-can-give kind which I’ll try not to vet with our lawyers first. It’s still nice to know that even despite having major outages throughout the busiest two hours of the entire year, we could best our closest competition on the order of millions of pages. (Not that pages are really any metric to go by anymore, but you know.)
Thanks again to everyone who stuck by us during the insanity today, and for dealing with our overly-obsessive wall to wall coverage over the past couple of weeks in general. But more than anything, I again have to thank the team, who make and re-make Engadget every single day of the week, rain or shine, uptime or downtime, without fail. Everything good about Engadget I owe to them, as does every reader of the site.
P.S. -Just for further blog-record-keeping of this crap, keep an eye out for appearances on TWiT, CNN.com, Xbox Insider (on the 360 Dashboard), G4, and Irish Newstalk Radio. (Am I missing any?)
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 - 6:48PM
Was on tonight’s Attack of the Show. I hear Schlomo says I need to smile more. Don’t you people under stand? That IS my happy face. You should see me when I’m serious.
*Note, more smiling on TV.
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 - 1:09AM
Wow, Forbes did me the great honor of ranking me among this year’s Web Celeb 25. Hard to imagine I’ll be able to pull this one off twice, but for now I’m definitely in good company, along with Om, FSJ, Mike, Kevin, and everyone else. Oh, bonus extra profile action here. I think I’m going to miss 2007.
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 - 9:47AM
Fortune did a profile on us vs. them packed full of trite boxing riffs — the spin being, of course, that there’s this huge, bitter public rivalry between us and Gizmodo. I wasn’t sure how they were going to pull it off since it has all the makings of a non-story: two very different publications with two different angles and audiences. As it turns out the worst thing Copeland could get out of either of us is that I supposedly cut some line at an Apple event (there are no lines at Apple events, just big nebulous groups of reporters waiting at the gate).
I don’t actually find it strange that I wasn’t quoted, either. I’m more prone to discuss the competition from all sides (CNET, Wired, even BoingBoing, etc., not just Giz) and that just doesn’t really fare well when you’re trying to do a Pepsi and Coke story. The landscape looks a little different when you’re not clamoring to the top. But the story does get one thing right in that Brian and I are good friends and have immense respect for one another — and no one has ever had to “press” me to admit as much.
P.S. -And no, we didn’t pose together for that photo, although I have no doubts that Brian could kick my ass in real life! Also, I’m taller.
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 - 10:04PM
Was on TWIT #111 last week, as well as Leo’s analog radio show (The Tech Guy), WCBS (not sure if that one ran), and a couple others, as well as mentioned, quoted, or interviewed in the NY Times, Crain’s NY (I don’t think this is out yet), BBC (twice), The Guardian (twice), The Times (twice), and so on. Busy week!
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 - 10:03AM
Check it out. Best part: where John Dvorak goes off on a tangent about how I look and sound like Christopher Walken. Um, wait, what?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 - 2:58PM
I was recently on Mario Armstrong’s Digital Cafe program to discuss early adoption and blogging, two topics obviously near and dear to my heart. (I was also recently on his XM show, Digital Spin, but I don’t have a clip from that one.)
Monday, July 30th, 2007 - 5:01PM
Some additional triflings, ranging from amusing to awesome (in order):
