Some of Yahoo Tech Ticker's recent headlines have little to do with tech: "Senate Passes Bailout Bill: 74 to 25"; "Buffett Buys $3B of GE Preferred, Company Selling $12B of Common"; and "It's 'Absolute Nirvana' for Value Investors, Whitney Tilson Says." Tech Ticker talking head Sarah Lacy has posted an existential complaint. The title: "When Tech Reporters Become Irrelevant." When? We thought they always were. But we digress. Lacy writes that there's been one tech story this year mainstream enough for a Yahoo audience — the Microsoft-Yahoo non-merger — but that otherwise, "it's been a year of financial news."

Fellow Tech Ticker talker Henry Blodget has steered his own Silicon Alley Insider website away from New York's Silicon Alley. Lacy seems to be taking it personally: "Judging from these eye-popping numbers, few of you aren't watching Tech Ticker. I'm glad I wasn't missed during my month on tour. Sniff."

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