gizmodo

So, a couple of weeks ago, our submissions were slammed by a whole bunch of you with submission subjects along the lines of "Gizmodo is losing it" or "Gizmodo fails" or "Gizmodo doesn't get innovation" (all actual submissions). senshikaze got the first submission in, though, and so gets the credit.

From the summaries, it was clear that Gizmodo had published a pro-patent post, and specifically a pro-Apple patent post, written by Jesus Diaz.

For a goodly amount of time, Gizmodo had been a tech news site in the “traditional” sense of the word.

It featured specs, photos, tear-downs and reviews of upcoming consumer electronics. It favored the big companies – Apple, Microsoft, Google, Motorola, etc.

– but it still had a lot of bleeding edge information about the tech world. To read it today, one would not recognize it.

I have, for the most part, stayed out of the whole Gizmodo thing, mostly because I have absolutely no sympathy for what they did.

But then, I come across Shel Israel something like this and I can’t help but think that the majority of those who are defending Giz have the whole thing backwards:

But Gizmodo is a legitimate news organization.

The public is served by it. And when one company gets to deny it access, because they are involved in a legal head-butt, then in my opinion free press is pushed back a step.

Tech Comics: "Gizmodo's payment of $5,000 for a misplaced iPhone raises questions about the nature of journalism in the Internet age"

At TorrentFreak we keep a close eye on the DMCA takedown requests that are received by search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

These are usually sent out by music and film companies but last week we saw them being joined by the Gawker Media-owned weblog Gizmodo.

For quite some time, authorities in South Korea have contended that a lot of kids there are addicted to the internet.

One of the more misguided steps take to try and "cure" these kids was to put them in a boot camp where they couldn't use computers, but apparently that effort failed.

More than anything, Sony's lost its spirit, spending too much time telling us it's the greatest electronics company in the world and not nearly enough showing us.