DISQUS

Jane · 1 year ago

Did you see that GigaOM confirmed the story and says an announcement will be made next week?

Nate Westheimer · 1 year ago

Agreed!

Jennifer Leggio · 1 year ago

That's the thing with blogging. There's a rumor, do you want to be the idiot who jumps on the bandwagon or the first to confirm it? It's a tough balance since the rules of journalistic research sometimes don't apply (whether they should or not is an entirely different conversation).

When I was contemplating writing my blog about the topic this morning for ZDNet, I considered a lot of those factors. So I took a different approach, even though Om Malik had already allegedly confirmed the news. I posed everything as speculation and never claimed it to be fact, and what would happen "if" this goes through. That gives good market commentary without having to eat crow later. I've seen a lot of bloggers today and yesterday who will need to eat crow in one way or another. While I'm all for taking a stand, I would never do so based on just a rumor.

john · 1 year ago

wrong. it will happen. too good of synergy.