Techcrunch has its faults, but can’t be knocked on this fantastic April Fools’ story, which had me (a) relay it to Twitter – thanks heaven for delete and the normal wave of scobleisms to drown it out; (b) draft an indignant blog post. Only a quick peek at the comments set me straight.
Bastard.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/31/techcrunch-has-acquired-fuckedcompanycom/
The comments for this story on the TC site say more about the industry than 309402 blog posts ever will. Mind-blowing.
Looking at Techmeme it looks like you were in good company…
And if it makes you feel any better I was almost fooled by Iain Dale’s announcement that he was running for Mayor.
Check out Google’s TiSP story.