BREAKING: NY Times Validates DC Tech Scene
The story I've linked to above is one of those fake trend stories that run far too often in today's newspapers. In this story, the New York Times has proclaimed that the tech scene is Washington, D.C. is newly revived.
The thing is, I'm not sure it ever declined in the first place. My experience is that as tech companies grew during the Internet boom and then laid people off during the bust, those engineers, programmers, marketers and other skilled employees moved on to other jobs in the D.C. area. Or they started their own companies.
This much I'll predict on Sunday night: the D.C.-based media will have fun with this. And they'll also link to that other New York Times fake trend story which trumpeted our revived restaurant scene. (None of these restaurants are new.)
Watch.
