{"id":626,"date":"2006-06-14T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T23:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=626"},"modified":"2006-06-14T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T23:46:36","slug":"never-mind-podtech-and-om-techcrunch-got-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/never-mind-podtech-and-om-techcrunch-got-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind podtech and OM, TechCrunch Got Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While world and dog are talking about Robert (<a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/\">no longer a Microsoft blogger<\/a>) Scoble and Om (<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/\">just call me MSM<\/a>) Malik, I note that it seems Michael Arrington&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/TechCrunch\">TechCrunch<\/a> just hired their own blog heavy hitter. If you don&#8217;t know <a href=\"http:\/\/marshallk.com\/\">Marshall Kirkpatrick<\/a> you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on in lighweight web and collaboration tools. His blog is just fantastic, and I actually think he&#8217;s going to bring a new level of analytical thinking to TechCrunch. Arrington is all about the New New Thing. Marshall, from what i can see, is a bit more contextual.<\/p>\n<p>This definitely looks like 1+1=5 though. Michael can concentrate on being the hottest property in Web 2.0 coverage and deal-making, while Marshall backfills on the content side. TechCrunch now has a great business development guy, and a great content development guy. What&#8217;s the betting MSN buys Techpod in 18 months anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Its all good. <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah &#8211; Scoble did the right thing. And i think its actually good for Microsoft. Lop off the short head, allow the Long Tail of Microsoft blogs to really shine. <a href=\"http:\/\/\">What Ed Brill said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While world and dog are talking about Robert (no longer a Microsoft blogger) Scoble and Om (just call me MSM) Malik, I note that it seems Michael Arrington&#8217;s TechCrunch just hired their own blog heavy hitter. If you don&#8217;t know Marshall Kirkpatrick you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on in lighweight web and collaboration tools. His<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-a6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}