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   Hooray!

   

   wonko, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 10:26am

   
   

   Congratulations, Mike!

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   Congratulations from the site troll

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 10:30am

   
   

   I'm usually on here protesting against Mike's sometimes long-winded editorials, but I have to offer a bit of grudging respect over being named in a top business book like Forbes -- RESPECT

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   No Subject Given

   

   Chris, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 10:52am

   
   

   Congrats Mike. And those of us that have been here for a while can bask in glory of having found you first, to be followed immediately by the complaining that you've sold out to the man ;)
   
   Now if I can just get Forbes to recognize me as the best blog by a guy who shares a name with a celebrity...

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   Congratulations

   

   Tom, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 10:54am

   
   

   Congratulations for a job well done.
   
   -longtime reader

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   Damn Straight!

   

   mgallagher, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 11:00am

   
   

   Just goes to show what can happen when people do smart things in creative ways.
   
   Congratulations!

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   Congratulations...

   

   Joe Schmoe, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 11:25am

   
   

   Congratulations Mike!
   
   But may a pox befall whoever put that article together. Auto loading pages that forward to the next before you can finish reading, a "stop" that does not stay in effect when you manually advance to the next. And "that" was only accomplished after loading the subpage of the article a second time (after the first launched itself into a survey / ad page that took you away from the story). Garrrrrrrrrrr!
   

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7.  

   Whoo hoo!

   

   Duffman, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 12:06pm

   
   

   Good job, Mike! Techdirt's stuck quite firmly as one of my daily stops, always interesting, always fun.

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   No Subject Given

   

   aReader, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 12:58pm

   
   

   Congratulaions Mike!

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   Congrats...

   

   dsg, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 1:25pm

   
   

   ...and keep it coming

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10.  

    Insult?

    

    AC, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 2:06pm

    
    

    I originally read "when the programmers are reading Slashdot, their bosses are reading Techdirt" as a kind of an insult (suggesting that it is more posing and marketing than useful information), but reading the article, it seems that they suggest that techdirt gives a more general view of the IT industry, instead of focusing on specific software or news. If so, great! Congrats to Mike for the hard work.

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    No Subject Given

    

    Michael M, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 2:32pm

    
    

    Congratulations! I've long though TechDirt was one of the great unsung weblogs - now I guess it's been sung. :)

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    Go Techdirt!

    

    Dmitry, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 2:35pm

    
    

    Congrats Mike, really glad to hear.
    
    My favorite places on the net in no specific order
    
    Bluewsnews
    Techdirt
    Slashdot
    Drudgereport

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    Can he keep it up?

    

    dorpus, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 5:34pm

    
    

    Can Mike keep his anti-establishment tone, or if he is a mere mortal, will the site become shallower, more dumbed down, to appeal to a wider audience? Like many an enterprise, they start out as places of anti-establishment originality, then become more complacent and hypocritical when they succeed.
    
    It's unlikely that Mike will write any anti-Forbes articles now, and before long, he may start writing about the virtues of a flat tax. When/if he gets funding to expand the site, perhaps it will have more product endorsements, cheesey flash graphics, sugary buzzwords like "positive thinking".
    
    But, I am not sure.
    

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    Sorry for the delay

    

    rainblk, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 6:06pm

    
    

    
    Yeah Mike ! Sorry for the delay in posting your congratulations... I have one of those "no posting from work " jobs.. but I agree with Chris to the max. Basking in your reflected glory has made me look good to my boss more than once. Thank you for such a great job in choosing your stories.

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    congrats!

    

    mhh5, Mar 15th, 2003 @ 12:26am

    
    

    neato!

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    No Subject Given

    

    Anonymous Coward, Mar 15th, 2003 @ 3:35am

    
    

    hey, kewl.
    
    i read your blog every day and think its one of the best pages i visit. you deserve the praise for your efforts. well done :)
    
    SatArC
    ;p

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    Re: Can he keep it up?

    

    LittleW0lf, Mar 15th, 2003 @ 10:19am

    
    

    Can Mike keep his anti-establishment tone, or if he is a mere mortal, will the site become shallower, more dumbed down, to appeal to a wider audience?
    
    So it will appeal more to you, God I hope not.
    
    Keep up the good work Mike.

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    Forbs???

    

    Anonymous Coward, Mar 15th, 2003 @ 10:47am

    
    

    I can all ready hear the clue floor dropping about
    20 IQ points.
    
    Remember, there's good press and there's bad press. Only when you're not getting *any* press is all press good press.
    
    Sort'a like sex... you want to be selective... if you can... If you can't, to quote Dennis Hopper, fsck anything the moves.

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    Congrats...

    

    brian, Mar 17th, 2003 @ 6:33am

    
    

    Congrats Mike. This is well deserved props. You should ask if you can use that tag-line about the bosses reading techdirt. Actually that kinda sounds like your writing... hmmm ;-)

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    Well Deserved

    

    MLO, Mar 17th, 2003 @ 7:25am

    
    

    Techdirt is my first stop of the day in my daily tech news scrounging. If I could, I'd make it my only stop. Keep up the good work!!
    
    MLO

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    ...

    

    No Got, Mar 17th, 2003 @ 10:58am

    
    

    First, congratulations Mike! You have certainly earned the recognition.
    Second, it's unbelievable that Kuro5hin.org has made a list of anything remotely positive, what with its hoardes of impossibly sanctimoneous and inhumanly boring readers. While it is reassuring to have Kuro5hin around in order to give these people an outlet and to avoid having them pollute anything remotely interesting on the web, its inclusion in this list of TECH weblogs cheapens the entire thing. At least the equally self-important Slashdot sheep have the first clue of what is actually what. If there is a more boring web site than Kuro5hin on the internet, it will surely collapse under its own immense gravity.

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    Congrats!

    

    Todd, Mar 17th, 2003 @ 3:13pm

    
    

    Mike, I can remember when Techdirt was just a twinkle in your eye....
    
    Great job and congratulations!
    
    Todd

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    well done

    

    sm, Mar 17th, 2003 @ 7:29pm

    
    

    Congratulations, good to see your fine work recognised...
    
    Sean...

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