Nick Gonzalez: “The best TechCrunch post.., ever”
Written on April 22, 2008 – 9:56 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
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Nick Gonzalez, former TechCrunch blogger who used to sleep over 3 nights a week at Arrington’s, just told the crowd at the “Intro to Blogs & Social Media Marketing” Web 2.0 Expo session what he considers to be THE best TechCrunch post ever. Well, this is the legendary article:
The honor goes to Duncan Riley, who wrote a post about Japanese Internet service providers that wanted to ban file sharers from the Internet. According to Gonzalez, it’s not just the best post because it has more than 1000 comments. No, the main reason is that it brought in an “insane amount of traffic”. “Somebody buzzed the story, and somebody else did as well. It ended up at the Yahoo front page, which leads to around 300,000 clicks per second. That’s a crap load of users”.
Here’s what Arrington said about this spectacular event:
The link went live at 5:45 PM PST as one of the bottom four links in the news box (these send less traffic) and was up through the day. Despite the fact that yesterday was a Saturday (slowest traffic day of the week) and that it was up only 1/4 of the day, we had our highest traffic day ever and over 1,000 comments were left on the post.
So in terms of traffic Gonzalez is obviously right. Yet I think that when it comes to blogging, quality is more important than quantity. That’s why I prefer one of Arrington’s editorials to be the no. 1 TechCrunch post ever..
Update: read this post by Oliver Taco: TechCrunch Can’t Do Math
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3 Responses to “Nick Gonzalez: “The best TechCrunch post.., ever””
By Nick Gonzalez on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
thanks for the love guys!
By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
You’re welcome Nick! I enjoyed the presentation and thanks for the live blog review.
By RR Nederhoed on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
“X is the best Y ever” is logically improbable. You can only say this once; better be careful, time will catch up with you. Saying “X the best Y yet” would be more probable, assuming we all have the same concept of ‘best’.
Which leads to an interesting question: is it necessary to compare? Why does something have to be ‘the best’, isn’t praising it enough?
Some time ago I read (part of) a book* by Alfie Kohn. He challenges comparison. A very interesting read. Now every time a journalist interviews somebody, I notice their tendency to ask in a superlative manner:
“What was your most exciting experience?”, “Who is your favorite artist?”
In a way these are “closed questions”; they force the interviewee to choose. An open way of interviewing would be:
“What exciting experiences did you have?”, “Which artists do you like?”
Only a subtle difference?
*) unsure if it was “No contest” or “Punished by rewards”.