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I emailed him, he didn't respond. It needed outing :-) - Duncan Riley

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Scoble regularly plays both sides himself for maximum effect and juicegevity (yeah, I just made that up). I find it hilarious that he'd call anyone out for doing what he's practically perfected, deliberately or otherwise. - abacab

I'm sorry, I didn't see your email. I did get it, I just missed it. My email flow is so high and I bias to FriendFeed and public interaction. Funny that I saw this so late too cause I've been getting prepared for Converge South. Anyway, your comments are fair. I was being an asshole there. Oh, and about Australia? I was joking around. I know there's plenty of startups in Australia. BluePulse and Atlassian are two of my favorites. - Robert Scoble

Scoble, accepted. But never forget, if I want to come after you, I will always have my name on the post ;-) We'll see about adding some of your stuff to the front page as well, I think it would add to the mix - Duncan Riley

Oh this is so lovely ... I love when you two make amends. - Brandon

I'm really loving yammer, as is our team so far. Some of us are also on twitter, but the benefit of "internal corporate twitter" will really pay off I think. Definitely easier to get buy-in from upper management as even our CEO has managed to post a message :) - Sascha Beaumont

Sascha, not saying it doesn't have potential and a market, but it fails in terms of innovation - Duncan Riley

Im hoping we might be able to get this to 4 figures, two very good causes - Duncan Riley

I dugg it. Doing my part... :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

thx Lisa - Duncan Riley

how big was the gap? - Stephen Jones

at the biggest point, 4-5k - Duncan Riley

I'm a user of both Google Analytics and Nielsen NetRatings, both of their codes are at the bottom of my pages and both are pretty much accurate on page view counts - no doubt because the load on my pages is very very low at around 25kB. However, their unique user counts are very dissimilar: Analytics reports 3-5 times what Nielsen does. This bugs me greatly. I would love to know the reason for the discrepancy. - Paul Montgomery

Heh. Without looking at the body of the article, I can answer yes. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

interesting that I have a similar issue with Quantcast, although that's actually below the Analytics count pre-shift the code - Duncan Riley

See again: lies, damn lies, and Web stats - Cyndy

I am not sure about GA, but for an in-house web analytics which I am building, I have also noticed the same thing. That a long page load can make the user leave even before any tracking js at the footer of the page can be executed. Hence for my site, I have the tracking code at the top. Some were skeptical though when I told them this.. - Winston Teo

Don't do that again. I almost spit my soda on the monitor. - Candace

HI Duncan! morning/afternoon in Aussie! - Justin Korn

that's THE ticket for America - Stephen Jones

some classics mixed in with some lesser known ones - Duncan Riley

nice summary put into one page!! - Hayk H.

I am not going to blame techmeme directly, but news aggregators have this problem in general with "breaking" news. It is not something that is solved easily. - Rob Diana

And I also noticed that mashable rarely gets a top story on TechMeme now. Not sure why. - Rob Diana

Oh, but look! Someone finally cares about Dell! Maybe it's just slow and tired? - Cyndy

Cyndy, or maybe it was written about on the list of "in" sites :-) - Duncan Riley

There are "in" sites? Who knew? ;) - Cyndy

another hour, still not on Techmeme. There are pages upon pages on GBlogsearch talking about this now. It is THE story, and yet, unless it comes from god, no play - Duncan Riley

Weird. The link didn't work for me. Went to the blog but message said item was gone. *shrug* - Cindy from fftogo

Thanks for the heads up on this, Duncan. - Warner Crocker

Echoing @Warner Crocker sentiments: thank you, Duncan. Gave you credit in post here: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/2008080... EDIT: there are a couple different fixes, BTW, for people who want to keep the site meter tracking, but don't want the IE7 error. Also an IE7 hack to view sites that haven't fixed the tracking code yet. - TDavid

This problem could be solved with software Duncan, identify a small group of editors who can vote up a story to put it on the home page of some (new) news site. It would be no better or worse than TechMeme, which does appear to have a similar editorial process. As you point out, just publishing a story on TechCrunch is enough to move it to the top on TM. So that's Coke, start Pepesi. - Dave Winer

BTW, it's the easiest way to get TC/M to change -- people listen to their competitors much more carefully than they listen to their friends. - Dave Winer

The story is on Techmeme now, Duncan: http://www.techmeme.com/080802... - TDavid

Top of Techmeme now. - Mike Doeff

Duncan as Marc Canter would say prior to a disagreement..:Duncan I love you man but.. I think that you're wrong on this one.. it's not Gabe's responsibility to build your community. That's your job. It's unfair to Gabe to say he's letting down his community because you can't get linkage. Gabe has never tried to be like Google news. That being said masterful linkbait..kudos on linkbait; wrong on Techmeme - John Furrier

There wasn't any focus I could see. Just Steve Gillmor's personal blog and the b-side of TechCrunch. - Mark Trapp

Where will Steve Gillmor post his next manifesto? - TDavid

"Farewell sweat TechCrunch IT" - sweat kinda works in a weird way, but maybe you meant sweet? - Hutch Carpenter

for those wondering if it is shut as there's no official announcement: type techcrunchit.com into a browser. Also heard that Calley is no longer at TC as well. Changes happening by the sound of it. - Duncan Riley

Man, I don't know whether to laugh or cry....or both - Bwana ☠

Hutch, I'm not sure what FSG means...I never do with him - Duncan Riley

Sorry but this blog post is not nearly long enough to be from steve gilmor, even fake steve gilmor. - sean percival

Sean, in death people become relatively silent. - Duncan Riley

So does this mean a spot opens up on the Techmeme Leaderboard for you, Duncan? - Cyndy

I was surprised to see the blog launch considering all guest posts on techcrunch.com from Steve Gillmore before Techcrunchit were getting considerable flak about the long winded and abstract writing style that was used. - Adam Helweh

Cyndy, that spot will be reserved for another Arrington/ Gabe sycophant :-) - Duncan Riley

Thought it was a great feed, I will miss it, Later TechCrunchIT - Jason Holbrook

Looks like it's back. I'm able to access the front page and articles again. - Mark Trapp

I don't think I'm on enough hallucinogens to understand that post... something or another shut down? Uh, ok... It was HItler's blog or something? That's where you lost me... - Jason Carreira

It's back! although notice the last post date. - Duncan Riley

FSG has the power to bring blogs back from the dead?? - Cyndy

Guys they have only been around for like 60 days and had 50,000 uniques according to Compete.com... I wish I had that kind of traction. If they hadn't used the TC brand someone (me and a group) would have picked it up for sure. That was a great start. Why did they not continue I wonder? Duncan help me out you know how the big man thinks more than any of us - Roger Kondrat

Roger, you would have that kind of traction if TechCrunch crosslinked with every article you wrote. ;) - Cyndy

Two problems. Nik + SG would have been paid...well Nik definitely but both were named editors so presume both. Say 80-100k yr for an editor, maybe total if they split it + other writers for the site (allocated expenses, even if they were shared between sites). 50k uniques over 2 months doesn't even come remotely close to covering expenses. Arrington is a tight arse who hates spending money. My guess is that the site wasn't growing quickly enough and they decided to cut their losses now - Duncan Riley

It's also not a space Arrington would want to necessarily own either, after all there's no magical pot of gold nor any competitor he wants to destroy, so where as CrunchGear was sustained at a loss for a long time (and could well still be losing money) there was no reason for TCIT to do so. Pure business decision from him. - Duncan Riley

also there's the sucker aspect. My guess is that it wasn't his idea to start with, that Nik cooked it up and sold it to him, with SG's support. Arrington has always had poor judgement with investments and happily spends money to support friends. Maybe charity would be the better definition - Duncan Riley

It's redirecting back to TechCrunch again - Glenn Slaven

Completely gone from all the menus too now - Glenn Slaven

bizarre, it's like ZOMG, someone noticed! What should we do! - Duncan Riley

TCIT is an idea that has been floating around for some time in Arringtonland, I was even involved with some very early discussions (nixed when Gillmor noticed I was being included in group emails). I wouldn't be quite so quick to deadpool it, but one wonders if any such closure might be related to acquisition discussions which are coming to a head. - Paul Montgomery

Does this mean the TechCrunch Tablet is deadpool'd too? - Paul Montgomery

Paul, interesting question given the initial drive came out of TCIT. - Duncan Riley

With all due respect to Duncan, I think it opens a spot for Cyndy .... (he ducks) - Charlie Anzman

it is again redirecting. Duncan any informed guesses on the reason for closure :-). Bye the way I posted about no new articles on techcrunchit on friendfeed about 3 days back. - Sidharth Dassani

No kidding Paul, what does this mean for the iCrunch? - Pat Hawks

just updated the post, 25 only at this stage. - Duncan Riley

Too much microblogging last time: identi.ca,plurk,kwippy:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Would people use Facebooks status updates if API was released to leverage the updates externally? - Joe Dawson

yeah invites? :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com) from twhirl

Dont u think its a too much of mashup - trying to do a lot of thing at the same time. As they say too many cooks spoils the broth - Arjun

so what is going to be better? twitter failed people because it failed to be a non censored medium. how is YouAre going to be different? - Noah David Simon

So Many new services in the last few weeks, too many. - jjprojects

Invite please? - Ernie Oporto

Looks interesting, but yeah send the invites mate :D - Mo Kargas

Sent off the email, don't know if I was in the 1st 25 though, I haven't got an email back yet - Glenn Slaven

definitely looks interesting, but it begs the question "are they trying to do too much"? - Rob Diana