This post is just to show how an A-list blog can ignite fire across the blogosphere about a rumor or a mistake . The all-powerful and popular TechCrunch posted about possible launch of Google to-do list product. The post referenced a screenshot sent by one of the TechCrunch reader, Nicolas Hoizey, which showed a to-do list posted on the Official Google Docs Blog by Andrew Chang who is a Marketing Manager at Google.
Now see how the blogging world reacted to this post:
First of all, the post made it to Techmeme
Then the fire spreads to WebWorker Daily, Texas Startup Blog and Marketing Pilgrim
And the now the others also jump into the discussion and speculation. So now we have a blog asking to stop the press for Google may be releasing something
The other calling the to-do list an imminent product from Google.
Then came the suggestions for Google to keep the to-do list simple.
And further announcements from other blogs like Gokubi, Industry Interactive Inc, and The Weekly Review.
This is just a sample of all the posts that would be featuring possibility, speculations and suggestions for the Google to-do list. Now comes the end of this entire story cooked up in the blogosphere. The post mentioned in the screenshot which started everything is deleted from the Google Docs Blog and Andrew Chang posts a new entry mentioning how he accidentally published his own weekend to-do list and how easy it is to create, edit and post a blog entry using Google Docs.
Does blogging need to be more thoughtful than just breaking news? I think yes.
Sorry Mike. I still enjoy your posts and love reading TechCrunch.
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I was more trying to make a point about how everyone gets so “excited” about new Google products, even if they’re not all that exciting… but you’re right. I did point to the rumor as if it were fact.
I never for a moment believed it to be anything more than an accidental posting on the Google blog and I said so in my post on Web Worker Daily.
My post was more about Google’s lack of a task/to-do application, than to react to TechCrunch’s post as if it were news. I only used the TC post as a starting point.
I was actually making a joke about the 37Signals dust-up with Google the day before…
Hi!
Your post shared exactly my point:)
In case it wasn’t obvious enough I tried to be sarcastic: over-excited about something like a todo-list just because it was made by Google
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To Everyone,
This post was just to show how the information driven by a powerful blog moves rapidly into the blogosphere. The other blogs could express in various ways as shown by all these posts and in the comments but the end result of all this is that information takes the entire blogosphere by storm. The post was not targeted towards anyone personally or meant to oppose any person’s opinions.