Technology Blogging

TechCrunch a technology blog is posting confidential Twitter (internal Twitter) information they received from a hacker.  TechCrunch first posted a blog post about having that stolen information last night.  

A later blog post says:

“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising,”

Who said that?  According to Michael Arrington who is Tech Crunch that is a  quote from "Lord Northcliffe, a newspaper magnate, supposedly" 

Arrington wrote: "I agree wholeheartedly."

Arrington is an attorney...

The Twitter documents were stolen by someone referred to as ”Hacker Croll" and supplied to TechCrunch.  And others? The first post about the Twitter confidential info that would be published on TechCrunch said:

"The guy (”Hacker Croll”) who claims to have accessed hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees, is releasing those documents publicly and sent them to us earlier today. The zip file contained 310 documents, ranging from executive meeting notes, partner agreements and financial projections to the meal preferences, calendars and phone logs of various Twitter employees."

The first post last night, July 14, 2009 was titled "In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents"

The second blog post, "Our Reaction To Your Reactions To the Twitter Confidential Documents Post" is dated July 15 and was posted overnight.  Overwhelmingly the reaction to the first post "In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents" was that posting the confidential Twitter info was wrong, was stealing... the second post (linked here) is Arrington's justification that getting confidential info is what Tech blogging is all about....

Tabloid Blogging

Arrington used Gawker (a celebrity blog?) posting Sarah Palin's emails? TechCrunch uses example of the Wall Street Journal sharing Yahoo confidential info and says sharing Twitter's confidential info that ended up in their mailbox was not as bad as Gawker posting confidential information about the vice presidential candidates email.   Tabloid journalism?  That's why the Elvis Magazine cover is here...   the word "Confidential"... the tabloidyness of it all.... if tabloidyness is a word.  Or even if it is not.

TechCrunch has got lots of traffic from just telling the world they've got Twitter's confidential info... and are going to post some of it.  Lots of the traffic is via Twitter... in the second post, Arrington talks about becoming a trending topic on Twitter....

The first post containing confidential information is up on TechCrunch.

Real Estate Blogging is Tame...

Gee whiz aren't you glad we are real estate bloggers not tech bloggers?  Think about confidential info of your brokerage ... too boring?  Or what about ActiveRain...  what would you think if a "hacker" accessed "Confidential" ActiveRain documents and shared them?  News?

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The Hollywood Star Confidential Magazine Cover is from Tohoscopes' Flickr photostream and it is licensed with a Creative Commons license.  He owns the magazine pictured and is selling it.  Details on his Flickr photostream.