After losing hired guns writers left and right Mike Arrington decided the smartest way to get us all work for him is crowdsourcing. In fact, why not get it all free? So he came up with this bogus theme:
"I want you to tell me how much we (occasionally) suck. Sometimes our predictions are, with the benefit of hindsight, way off. Or they had no logical basis to begin with. Or perhaps we got some crucial fact wrong. Whatever it is, I want you to dig out the worst post in TechCrunch history and write about why it's so bad."
In other words, he wants us, the 350K readers to find his biggest blunders. Why? Since so far he's been largely positive on all-things-web-2.0 the worst blunders will likely point to business failures. Arrington's biggest coup will be when he finally reveals that his April Fool's Joke wasn't such a joke after all: he really acquired FuckedCompany. Now all he has to do is pluck in the hundreds of submissions he receives from his loyal subjects readers, and voila! - he has FuckedCrunch up and running, edited by us, the Crowd.
Update: I can now declare TrashCrunch. the absolute winner. Why? First, what better URL for the trash-TechCrunch contest? Second, the secret sauce: dynamic content. I can redirect it to whatever the winning entry is.
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