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  • Jojo · 1 year ago
    In other news not covered on tech sites...

    NY Times
    April 9, 2008
    A Silicon Valley Slowdown

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/09...
  • Chris Morrison · 1 year ago
    Jojo.. we, and most other people around here, have been talking about a slowdown for months.

    If anything, the fact that the NYT finally chose to write about it might mean we're about to shake off the slump, ala the famous Time Magazine cover story effect.
  • Jojo · 1 year ago
    Ha Chris. Or it might mean that reality is finally intruding on SV. The recession we are just in the beginning of is not going to be a short or easy one.

    I doubt that old saw about big media always being late and on the wrong side of the tracks is very accurate. Sure, sometimes it fits the curve, but there are many times when it didn't. As they say, it works until it doesn't. :)

    I also had to change my IP addr to make this post, sigh. Wordpress said:

    "You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down."

    and wouldn't allow the post. Huh? 4 hours since my last post here and that is too quick????
  • steveballmer · 1 year ago
    Most readers agree that my FPB (fake persona blog), all of the rest of the internet is garbage!
  • Chris Morrison · 1 year ago
    Jojo: OK, perhaps I was being excessively snarky about the NYT's arrival. And the two writers of that particular article have, I'm sure, been aware of what's going on for months.

    Still, the fact that the New York Times writes an article doesn't mean it's incumbent on us to mention it. The last full article we wrote about it was just a week ago:
    http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/02/venture-inves...

    Sorry about the Wordpress problems, it's done it to me once or twice as well. Should be fixed soon.