{"id":2102,"date":"2008-01-10T21:38:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T02:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/10\/gizmodo-and-ces-whats-the-big-deal\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T21:38:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T02:38:44","slug":"gizmodo-and-ces-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/10\/gizmodo-and-ces-whats-the-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gizmodo and CES: What’s the big deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of sturm und drang in the blogosphere today over what Gizmodo pulled at CES: as editor Brian Lam confesses on the blog<\/a>, they wandered around the giant tribute to commercialism and technological excess with a TV-B-Gone remote TV killer in their hands and had some fun with it. Plenty of people<\/a> are claiming that they have ruined things<\/a> for other bloggers — despite the fact that, as Valleywag points out<\/a>, Gizmodo weren’t there as bloggers, but on regular old media passes — and Jason Calacanis in particular has been twittering about how this is a new low for Denton and gang.<\/p>\n

Puh-leeze. Not surprisingly, Denton is unapologetic (although Lam says he’s sorry about disrupting the poor Motorola guy so many times during his presentation). Most of the events in the video<\/a> are completely harmless, with TVs winking out as people are staring at them in the big hall — so what? I find it hard to get too excited about the whole thing, and much like Nick I find it refreshing that someone is standing apart from the slack-jawed and drooling coverage that CES gets in other places.<\/p>\n

Was it childish? Sure. Sophomoric even? Undoubtedly. But it was still pretty hilarious, and Nick makes a good point<\/a>: it shows a lot more life than anything CNET has ever done\/said\/written. It’s not as though the Gizmodo team was smashing TVs with hammers, for pete’s sake. This response<\/a> is completely over the top. And John Biggs’ long post on the topic is kind of sanctimonious but has a point in there somewhere — just for the record, I am not in favour of puking on sales people<\/a>, although some of them probably deserve it.<\/p>\n

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Lots of sturm und drang in the blogosphere today over what Gizmodo pulled at CES: as editor Brian Lam confesses on the blog, they wandered around the giant tribute to commercialism and technological excess with a TV-B-Gone remote TV killer in their hands and had some fun with it. Plenty of people are claiming that … <\/p>\n

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