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Never Knowing when to shut up!
So I was navel gazing on the Irish Blogs Top 100 thing and scrolled down to see what blogs I could find that I had never read before and I found this blog of an Irish Times technology journalist. It caught my attention because he was taking a swipe a jmcc over his posting on the Irish times blog directory.
Now I have yet to figure out exactly what John Collins is taking issue with in that posting but whatever it is it can’t be the fact that jmcc said that “Its coverage of technology during the dot.bomb era ran the gamut from utterly clueless to to downright wrong with the odd detour to accurate reporting.” Why can’t it be this, because as Potato pointed out the Irish Times are did a front page article today so inaccurate it’s beyond belief. There’s no point in me rehashing Potato’s article on the inaccuracies about it so go and read that and my comment clearing up perhaps some of the confusion.
So that’s jmcc right on one count, and as Doc Searls wrote today the Times is way off the mark on it’s methods of subscription so jmcc doesn’t sound such a lonely voice on that issue either!
Update 25/08/2005 13:31 GMT: Again I should have read Dick’s blog because then I wouldn’t have to point out that he’s talking about this too!
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dave, my issue with jmcc’s piece is that it’s pure and utter speculation. also john has always presented himself as an expert on the tech media - so why the clear inaccuracy such as calling the irish time’s tech pages “computers in business” which is the title of the sunday business post’s monthly supplement?
That’s fair enough John but in fairness jmcc isn’t writing for what’s supposed to be a respected paper. The standard of tech reporting on today’s front page is utterly appalling that’s more what triggered me into writing the post than anything else.
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Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between recycled press releases presented as news and what passes for the Irish tech press. I confused the SBP’s Computers In Business with the name of the Irish Times’ Friday technology section which, I think, is called “Technology in Business”.
The post on my blog (which is incidentally a blog about the domains and search businesses rather than a tech news blog) had a question mark in the title. But the facts remain: Ireland.com’s technology section has a blogs listing. A weekly listing of blogs in the IT’s Friday technology section would actually make it more relevant to the reader. The Sunday Tribune having its own column a the Irish blogosphere is certainly stranger. If the IT had been smart, it would have had some cheap and easy copy. But instead the ST got there first.
Perhaps the only speculative part was attributing some kind of insight to the IT in that it would see a potential opportunity for a blogs directory with a print tie-in. Given the mess that the IT made of reporting Google Talk, it seems that nothing much changes with the IT’s tech coverage. As regards John’s claim about me presenting myself as an expert on the Irish tech media - sadly, there isn’t much there to be expert about.