Technorati Rumors and Techcrunch Doublethink
Hey, I am not disputing that Technorati may be on the block. Personally, I have argued for years that it would be better for the community of users is some large company (Google pre-Blogsearch, or Yahoo or AOL today) would scoop it up, and fix all the damned annoying bugs and scaling problems.
Based on Dave Sifry's recent State of Technorati post, the rumors about being teed up for a sale have been flying right and left, including Arrington's post. He argues that the sequence of events at T'rati -- like Kevin Marks departure, and so on -- added to the spin in Sifry's post equates to a plan to sell out. But after Sifry denies it all in a comment, Arrington writes:
Dave Sifry responds in the comments, saying “I’ll be very clear about it - Technorati isn’t for sale.” Which means, of course, that Technorati is for sale.
Now it is true that he may be covering things up, but it's a bit much to say that denying something like this means it is happening. If Arrington has some support, he should cough it up, instead of this Orwellian wordplay.
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