Is This a Sign of an Ego Clash Among Tech Bloggers

As someone who’s worked at one of the blogs you allude to, I can definitely attest to what you’re saying. It’s taboo to mention it out loud, but it all boils down to the fact that Techcrunch never ever under any circumstance links out to the source on their stories, so their competitors are loathe to ever return the favor.

Very good observation. But we do not miss any thing because DI brings all of this kind of hidden tech news. I did walk though OffBeat Guides, seems good idea, but hope Google will bring this for free to us.

Thanks Amith,
Dutt

This ego clash is always there at every place and blog is no way possible exception.

Any way it depends about the blog policy also like if a author never cover some one’s story and link back to it ,the reciprocal also will be the same.

That’s a real good article that you have published there and what amazes me is your unique perspective on the different aspects of the tech world.

Sorry Amit, but I think you’re reading it wrong. The issue isn’t that no one linked in, the issue is what was it doing on Techmeme in the first place given no one else was writing about it.

There’s not some vast conspiracy not to link to TechCrunch, the fact that not every post doesn’t get picked up elsewhere is standard fare for any blog, including TechCrunch. I’m not saying that some sites may not have run the story because it was on TC…that may be true, but likewise you’re presuming that this story should have been run, and I don’t see it. I can’t see masses of bloggers dropping everything to write about it (particularly in a news rich environment) full stop. This is not to say that it’s a bad startup, and Sifry is a good bloke, but if you don’t do wide outreach, your story often doesn’t get a run, that’s not some sort of conspiracy, that’s poor PR, nothing else.

Duncan - I see a vast majority of stories that get on to Techmeme even if no other blogs are talk about them.

Gabe may be in a better position to comment on that but here the point is that Offbeat Guides sounds like a good service but not many prominent blogs cared to share that story on their own blogs.

True, there’s plenty of news already but what surprised me here was that not even a single blog talked about OBG since, I think, it was a TC exclusive.

David Sifry probably didn’t reach out to bloggers for the launch, which you noticed as well, and hence it failed to get the traction that it deserved.