I wish they'd stop posting about people leaving/joining a company. I can see if it's someone important....but they dedicate posts to nobodies. "A janitor at Facebook has decided to move to Google...does this spell doom for Facebook?"
I realize they gotta put out a lot of crap to get pageviews but this is ridiculous.
We can make TechCrunch even geekier by moving to the "undead simple" scale. Is the app usable by a Zombie or animated skeleton? Or would one need to be as smart as a vampire? This would have the side-effect of converting TC into /. Desirability of that varies greatly depending on whom you ask.
"Dead simple" it a common and pretty old (60's/70's?) term originating from North of the UK. There's probably a Brit there with an infectious turn of phrase. When I'm working with people in the US for an extended length of time, they inherit a LOT of my colloquialisms.
It's a rather old term, even in the US, going back to the 1940s, at least in print. The example I linked to last time was a Time magazine book review from 1942 or something like that). It's really fun to investigate stuff like this using Google News' archive search :)
It's clear that usage has really taken off recently, although it is possible it may have peaked in 2008.
Please TechCrunch, publish whatever (legal) you want to. That's what got you where you are today. If I stop liking what you write, I just won't read your site any more. Yours, Not A Whiner.
You've been downvoted, but you have a solid point.
I find it sort of amusing that the thing that bothers someone about TC is the regular use of a bland two-word phrase. Personally I'm more offended by the sensationalism, gossip, self-importance, and echo-chamber magnification—all of which are reasons I stopped reading TC years ago.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 58.6 ms ] threadI realize they gotta put out a lot of crap to get pageviews but this is ridiculous.
However, please sort out the theme... the red is way too violent. It almost hurts my eyes to look at this page.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22dead+simple%22+s...
Still a lot, but not nearly as much.
It's clear that usage has really taken off recently, although it is possible it may have peaked in 2008.
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=1&cf=all&ned...
I find it sort of amusing that the thing that bothers someone about TC is the regular use of a bland two-word phrase. Personally I'm more offended by the sensationalism, gossip, self-importance, and echo-chamber magnification—all of which are reasons I stopped reading TC years ago.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:techcrunch.com+on+a+tear
4,420 mentions of that phrase on techcrunch.com. ;-)
So long as the term's actually appropriate.
Please stop submitting blog posts where people whine about people writing some trivial cliche.
That's now very cliche itself.