Comments on: CrunchGear - That was Uncalled For

By: Facebook Rumors, Religion, and the LDS Faith | Stay N' Alive

Facebook Rumors, Religion, and the LDS Faith | Stay N' Alive — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:30:20 +0000

[...] go back to earlier this year. You may remember my “Shame on You TechCrunch” post I wrote awhile back, calling out the writers at CrunchGear for an extremely biased, and [...]

By: New, Big OpenSocial Announcements Coming Tonight? | Stay N' Alive

New, Big OpenSocial Announcements Coming Tonight? | Stay N' Alive — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:53:26 +0000

[...] to Mike Arrington (I know, I said I wanted to boycott TechCrunch but it’s just so dang hard to avoid! I’ll stick to boycotting Crunchgear for now.), [...]

By: OpensocialNow! » New, Big OpenSocial Announcements Coming Tonight?

OpensocialNow! » New, Big OpenSocial Announcements Coming Tonight? — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:51:37 +0000

[...] to Mike Arrington (I know, I said I wanted to boycott TechCrunch but it’s just so dang hard to avoid! I’ll stick to boycotting Crunchgear for now.), [...]

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:45:31 +0000

Andy, I see your points. I’m finding it very hard to boycott TechCrunch altogether. While Mike Arrington himself has defended his employees at Crunchgear (see phil801.com), it’s really hard to avoid TechCrunch! I’ve removed them from my reader, but they are on Techmeme, and linked from other sites so often it’s easy to still come across them. I guess if we boycott TechCrunch completely, we must also boycott Sony, whom they were promoting, and of course, Penn & Teller. I won’t stand to hear things like that, and you bet I’ll defend any religion that is criticized like that, but boycotting may not be the best solution.

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:45:31 +0000

Andy, I see your points. I'm finding it very hard to boycott TechCrunch altogether. While Mike Arrington himself has defended his employees at Crunchgear (see phil801.com), it's really hard to avoid TechCrunch! I've removed them from my reader, but they are on Techmeme, and linked from other sites so often it's easy to still come across them. I guess if we boycott TechCrunch completely, we must also boycott Sony, whom they were promoting, and of course, Penn & Teller. I won't stand to hear things like that, and you bet I'll defend any religion that is criticized like that, but boycotting may not be the best solution.

By: Farewell CrunchGear « Life, the Universe, and Nothing

Farewell CrunchGear « Life, the Universe, and Nothing — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:12:41 +0000

[...] the entire TechCrunch network. This charge is led particularly by Jesse Stay in an article located here. The word is primarily being spread through two Facebook applications: LDS Life, and The LDS App, [...]

By: Andy Bell

Andy Bell — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:13:36 +0000

Personally, I found it offensive too. However, I'm not boycotting all of the TechCrunch network. It is quite clear to me that, while all owned by TechCrunch, CrunchGear is a very different blog. It is run by completely different people and appears to have complete control over its own content without oversight by Arrington and crew.

However, I have boycotted CrunchGear and removed them from my feed list. This despite the fact that they have been good to me in the past. I even won a prize in their 1st anniversary contests, but I just can't look past their insensitive comments.

My view is that CrunchGear isn't a very professional blog and TechCrunch should probably get rid of them because if they keep it up, they could be a liability.

By: Andy Bell

Andy Bell — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:13:36 +0000

My view is that CrunchGear isn't a very professional blog and TechCrunch should probably get rid of them because if they keep it up, they could be a liability.

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:26:54 +0000

Here's the video, embedded:

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:26:54 +0000

Here's the video, embedded: