[davidpayne11]

This must be crazy - CEO, COO, Director of Product for a fucking Wordpress blog? are you kidding me?? Techcrunch at the end of the day is a Wordpress blog. It could be justified atleast if they were covering international news, but they are focused mostly on Start-up stuff (that too only the big guys) and mos, if not just Apple.

>Because straight up paying for downloads, or traffic, to a blog is insidious

Yeah right, biased, manipulative, colored, Apple-sponsored journalism isn't insidious, but paying for traffic is. Stop acting so surprised TC.

[aaronbrethorst]

The technology is irrelevant. It's what you do with it that matters.

[pretoriusB]

>Techcrunch at the end of the day is a Wordpress blog.

Yes, you know, like Whitehouse.gov is just a Wordpress blog at the end of the day. What do they need a president and a country for?

The thing is, the blogging technology doesn't matter. And the fact that it's a blog doesn't matter much either -- as blogs can make from $0 to hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

>Yeah right, biased, manipulative, colored, Apple-sponsored journalism isn't insidious, but paying for traffic is.

Never like TC, but ..."Apple-sponsored"? TC? Of all tech outlets out there?

(That said, I doubt even one blog or news site is indeed "Apple-sponsored", including Daring Fireball. And if the US had proper anti-defamation laws, people would have found that out in a painful way).

[nowarninglabel]

Whitehouse.gov runs on Drupal, not Wordpress.

[pretoriusB]

The argument remains though...