Blogs have become an extremely popular and lucrative enterprise. The immediacy and interactivity with which the most popular examples operate has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits each day. One of, if not the most popular blogs in the technology sector is TechCrunch.
With great power comes great responsibility though, and this weekend TechCrunch made the kind of error that highlights the issues of publishing online. Essentially, their European branch wrote a story concerning James Whatley, head of social media at Spinvox. In it TechCrunch suggested that he may leave his role in the coming week.
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TechCrunch aren’t usually adverse to controversy and so it has proved once again. Yesterday a mysterious hacker mailed Michael Arrington’s company offering up some invaluable information on Twitter.
Since then, TechCrunch have clearly been wrestling with the idea of how much information they should release. Arrington goes to great lengths to assure everyone that the mountain of private files and other non-business related details won’t be published, at least not by his company; however he is going to be exposing business related dealings in the coming days.
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An article appeared today on TechCrunch pouring scorn on the domination of Google as well as the world of SEO and Search Engine Marketing; suggesting the time may have come to have Government regulation to oversee the entire industry.
Would this work? No. Would this be possible? Probably not. Google and their search compatriots wield a lot of power. They can wipe a website off their pages for the merest breach of regulation. There are also many SEO companies that still inexplicably espouse the idea of guaranteeing top spot.
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