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The underlying fact is that Flickr users, many of whom are techy hipsters

awesome journalism



I read the first two paragraphs twice trying to figure out who Bartz is. They quoted her twice in the second paragraph, as Bartz, but never said, Carol Bartz, Yahoo CEO. So I looked it up. Bizarre journalism.


I'm of two minds on that.

At the end of the article, I actually found myself thinking, "Hm, that really wasn't terrible." Then I came here for the comments.

The "techy hipsters" bit really wasn't an egregious journalistic error, but it wasn't real professional either. There wasn't really anything wrong with the article, but you also get the impression that, in terms of writing at least, the folks there are amateurs.

Not that that's a bad thing! Maybe it's unfair of us to hold them to the same standards as, say ... Macworld. ahem ;-)


and entirely accurate. See also: Yelp.


There is a difference between people who post reviews or complain on certain forums, and the actual user population.




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