Techdirt
Techdirt is a highly opinionated website that reports on new technology and technology policy, particularly copyright and patent issues. She describes herself as a group blog . Mike Masnick founded the website in 1997 as a newsletter , but soon switched to a blog format and began developing the hobby project into a blog with management consultancy in 2000.
The owner is the company Floor64, which is based in Foster City , California in the Silicon Valley. Floor64 has eight permanent employees.
concept
Techdirt addresses the social effects and excesses of digital technology development: especially closed systems of all kinds such as copyright , payment barriers , Apple's business model or other attempts to restrict openness and communication. Although based in Silicon Valley , Techdirt does not see itself as a typical Silicon Valley blog, as it brings less start-up news and business figures , but reports more generally on technology politics and economics. According to their own statements, the readership is made up of the entire English-speaking world. According to their own numbers, the readers are predominantly male, between their early 20s and early 40s, IT people, journalists, government officials and lawyers.
Masnick follows the line of content that only scarce goods can be sold and that text and messages are no longer scarce goods these days. Masnick and Techdirt show themselves experimentally in an attempt to develop business models that manage without artificial scarcity by actually selling scarce goods.
Originally founded as a management consultancy and information service with seven employees who advised around 40 large companies in 2006, Techdirt expanded in 2006. The free Techdirt blog creates a community that can then be used by other businesses. In addition to the blog, Masnick has been running the Techdirt Insight Community since 2007 , where small businesses can get advice from a variety of experts. The website strikes a middle ground between open platforms such as Yahoo Answers or Gutefrage.net and closed traditional management consultancy .
Reception and meaning
MediaShift describes the editorial line as "witty-brash". Techdirt's line of content is described as aggressive and snappy towards companies that Techdirt believes have not understood the Internet and its changing control options.
Masnick coined the term Streisand Effect on Techdirt . In 2003 Forbes named techdirt one of the “Best Tech Blogs”. Business Week has already given the site its Best-of-the-Web award.
The artist Lily Allen ended her public engagement against file sharing after she had clashed with Techdirt, among other things, because she had posted an unauthorized Techdirt post on her website.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Techdirt: About Techdirt
- ↑ Tim Howgego: Mike Masnick on Techdirt, Information and Consultancy , January 29, 2008
- ↑ a b c d Greg Sandoval: Dirt cheap: Techdirt bets on 'free' business models , CNET September 13, 2009
- ↑ Shane Richmond: Techdirt puts its money where its mouth is , Telegraph Blogs, July 21, 2009
- ^ Rob Hoff: Tech Beat , The TechBeat October 11, 2006
- ↑ Mark Glaser: techdirt Builds Community of Bloggers to Offer Corporate Analysis , Media Shift 20 June 2007
- ^ Mark Glaser: Two-Tiered Net :: People Wary of Government in Net Neutrality Debate , April 7, 2006
- ^ NPR: 'Streisand Effect' Snags Effort to Hide Documents , February 29, 2009
- ↑ "Best Tech Blogs" on Forbes by Arik Hesseldahl (3/14/2003)
- ↑ Tom Chivers: Lily Allen drops fight against filesharing after Techdirt spat , Telegraph September 24, 2009