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Techcrunch Fail.
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April 19th, 2010UncategorizedJournalist gets a fact wrong. No fail here, but….
Journalist assumes that people trying to correct the fact are fighting amongst themselves and are nasty.
MAJOR BLOG FAIL
techcrunch.com/2010/04/17/cloudmades-openstreetmap-surges-on-wikipedia-like-user-passion/#comments
The comments are worth reading, pretty much every commenter including the CEO of Cloudmade and OpenStreetMap Foundation board members try to clear up a small misunderstanding.
Just a misunderstanding by Michael Arrington:
Many people describe CloudMade’s
OpenStreetMap projectBicker amongst yourselves if you like, but this isn’t the forum for it.
again, I think you guys are trying to drag me into your battles. it’s quite clear who controls the project.
no, it’s cutting through the bs and getting to the core issues.
what amazes me is how nasty this community is. and with that, comments are closed. CM and OSM, you’re on your own. Good luck battling Google.
Nasty people how dare you correct me!
Update, if you find that they have deleted the comments you can Download the article with comments here.
Update on the update : see comments, their comments have been disabled, but can be viewed. Anyhow. Comments are disabled on that post, which is FAIL too.
2 responses to “Techcrunch Fail.” 
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I don’t think they deliberately deleted the old comments. In fact you can see them still if you do ‘view source’ on the page. They’ve introduced some new javascript from intensedebate.com which seems to be (I assume accidentally) hiding all the old comments.
When that change happened it seems it also allowed two more comments to be added, which are visible, before commenting was switched off again. So much for “intense debate”.
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I asked intensedebate.com about it, and they said:
“TechCrunch is still in the process of importing all their millions of comments into the comment system, so in some places where there used to be X number of comments there might now be Y for some time. However if you disable JavaScript in your browser the default comment system will load, and rest assured that all the comments will be there – and will be in IntenseDebate as well, eventually.”
So I guess the comments will appear back there shortly, but will remain closed for new comments as per Michael’s final remark.
Harry Wood May 7th, 2010 at 09:37