touché
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Dear Arrington,

I think you’re drunk due to all the cocktails at the Techcrunch party. You need sleep and rest my friend. This post does not make any sense to me.

Best Regards.

I agree with you Tom .

Er what? This article is written quite confusingly. Just linking to previous coverage is a little insufficient – please put two and two together next time for us poor readers!

It takes a great deal of concentration and skipping backwards and forwards to understand what you were getting at.

A more straightforward approach would have been more effective. Ie. We reported that flicker give an unnofficial award when yahoo (Which now owns flickr) breaks their code by accident. It was a fun in joke. This caused a media overreaction (give example). our source for the story was Xyz. Now flickr gave out a new award – to our source, who still works there, who caused all of this.

Pwned you are, I think

Well dome!

This is cloud computing, right?

Uhm.. what is the dinosaur in the picture holding with his left paw?

if their isn’t side betting in-house I’d be shocked.

it may be a dubious honor, but who wouldn’t want that on their wall?

LOL! Such an award! Guess Flicker deserves it more than anybody else! Things are getting over- rated in here, don’t you think?

Maybe your point is accurate in that your summary does not convey the details of the story correctly. Or maybe it’s a reading comprehension problem.

I agree with you BB.

A “media overreaction”…

Dear Arrington,

I think I am like many other readers here that were attracted by this articles title, but left confused by your lack of consideration for the reader. Since I have not read the previous articles, I did not understand what you were referring to. Please understand that you are writing to inform the reader; this is an article and not a diary or a personal blog for your amusement.

Best regards,

Your average confused reader.

to summarize, MA found out about some award or inside joke at Flickr. He didn’t know about it or what it was referring to in the real world, but in his semi-vield dislike of yahoo, not dissimilar to gizmodo’s dislike of apple, MA decided to dedicate a post to it since it highlighted the ‘breaking’ of a yahoo property and seemed sort of embarrassing for yahoo. MA tried to uncover what it was by offering the recipient of said award an ‘off the record’ conversation via a twitter convo, to wit the recipient said, “i think carol said it best”, which was a backhanded was of telling MA, FU. A pretty brilliant comeback and one that obviously stung. So now the fine folks have created yet another award, as mentioned in this article as a direct reaction to the publicity from the first award, and MA took the bait and we have another post; that of course will cause a never ending loop as this guy is sure to win again as a result. Ironic.

I think I speak for many when I say WTF? Clearly I’m missing something here.

The dinosaur sure looks like it’s from Volpe Brown Whelan, the SF tech investment bank that Prudential bought in 2000. Some swag never dies!

I’m accepting nominations for the Arrington-Siegler award. This award is given to so-called journalists for most ridiculous news reporting.

thanks for the info. I’d never have known that, that was a donkey holding an ice-cream (if this comments section hadn’t pointed it out)

I think the mainstream media overreacts all the time, especially TV….

did I miss the techcrunch party?? I would love to attend and meet everyone…

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matt

Of all the things I’ve accomplished while at Flickr, I think getting a photograph of a masturbating dinosaur* onto the front page of Techcrunch is my greatest contribution yet to the tech industry. I might as well retire now.

* Yes, that’s what it is. It was a somewhat ill-advised Etsy purchase: http://flic.kr/p/78Wvrf

Everyone hates your ass, Arrington. You are fucking dumbass.