Om My God! Press Silent as Influencers Report iPod Glitches
One of these days I am going to write an Ode to Om… Om Malik of Business 2.0 that is. On his blog today Om points out a nifty story that the press has largely ignored.
Malik notes that there is a significant glitch in Apple's latest iPod software updater. Three heavy hitter influencers - Om,
Jeff Jarvis and Fred Wilson - all reported that their iPods are D-O-A thanks to this B-U-G.
Here's the amazing part, however. As of this writing, no one in the press is reporting the Apple glitch. Is CNET's slogan still Tech News First? Maybe that's why one of their columnists today dissed bloggers.
The long slow death of tired old media begins.
Posted by:Steve Hall | Friday, July 30, 2004 at 11:00 PM
You are giving C/Net way more credit than you should.
The big joke we always had in the Bay about News.com was that all their eyeballs were PR firms and PR people ... and nothing much beyond that.
My favorite memory, though, is talking to a reporter from ZDNet the day after it was purchased by C/Net. I said "I'm sorry" and the reporter responded "so am I."
Posted by:Jeremy | Saturday, July 31, 2004 at 03:22 PM