The blogging world has many personalities some of which we like and others that constantly rub us the wrong way. Some might be uhm.. shall we say .. egotistical and others are willing to give of their time. Of all the personalities out there Duncan Riley is probably best known for his time spent writing for TechCrunch where I once suggested that he was like the bad cop of the old fashion Good Cop - Bad Cop routine.
While Duncan might have been better known for his easy to provoke attitude he was also responsible for many excellent posts but unfortunately his rather public dust-ups; whether on TechCrunch or his personal blog, are what remained in the minds of most folks. Then one day not long ago he surprised everyone by leaving the TechCrunch fold to head out on his own.
No sooner than he had put his last post on TechCrunch to bed than his venture The Inquisitr was introduced to the blogosphere. I will admit that I wasn’t sure what style of writing he would take on the blog. Would the bombastic and sometime user of cuss words prevail or would we see something different was the question I think a lot of spectators and blogging pundits were waiting to see.
I don’t think I was alone in being pleasantly surprised when Duncan began experimenting with the very things like FriendFeed and Disqus that had lead to some extremely heated posts just prior to him leaving TechCrunch. There was even a public meet-up of sorts via his blog between himself and Louis Gray; who had been the object of one of his more vitriolic posts, where they talked about FriendFeed.
However I have been far more impressed by some of his more current posts regarding the rising discussion about the evolution of blogging. In his series of posts about Blogging 2.0 he has written what I consider some of his best and most balanced pieces yet. Gone is the easy to ruffle writing and replaced with well thought out and interesting posts.
While I still think that the old take no prisoners Duncan style of writing is still there I think that the move to starting up The Inquisitr was the best things he could have done for himself; and given the quality of posts the best thing for us his readers as well.
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