[Translate] Michael Arrington Is TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington losing his memory? Earlier today, this blogger noted the drop in buzz for TechCrunch Disrupt New York, and pointed as the reason, in part, the absence of Michael Arrington’s direct control over the proceedings, and particularly his genius for making up news stories that created attention,...
[Translate] TechCrunch Disrupt is into its third day of activities in New York City, and while this blogger’s not there for the second year (I’ll opt for San Francisco because I’ve jumped times zones 15 times this year already), I follow it via online accounts. In searching for “TechCrunch” on Google Search, it was not hard to...
[Translate] Tech observers will recall how TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington got on CNN and said that he didn’t know any black entrepreneurs and then essentially said that Silicon Valley was mostly White and Asian because it just turned out that way, and it’s a meritocracy? The TV blast that caused my video? Well, with the revelation that the...
[Translate] Ron Conway Points The Way This years TechCrunch award program called “The Crunchies” was so vastly different from all of the others, it took me a full week, plus, to figure out what I was going to say. The nature of blogging is to state your unvarnished view, so here goes: The Crunchies made me sad. Yep: sad. Sad because the event was the brainchild of TechCrunch under the blog’s founder Michael Arrington, who also put on the famous Crunchies gorilla suit (as has now former CEO Heather Harde) since the...
[Translate] At first this blogger was just going to leave the whole issue of TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington’s statement that he “Didn’t know any black entrepreneurs” alone at one blog post. But after a series of emails, a video follow-up, the one above, was in order. And to really hammer home the point that what Michael said, and I think he knows this now, was hurtful to black entrepreneurs like me, who he does know. Now, if you’re just reading this for the first time, here’s a brief...
[Translate] In an attempt to cloud Shaker’s win of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, there has been a lot of reporting that TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington is one of Shaker’s “pending investors” to quote TechCrunch itself. A lot of journalists have made hay with this, most recently a guy named Ben Popper, who tweeted this: benpopper Ben Popper Mike @arrington, thanks for the tip about the 1st amendment. You’re still at risk of violating SEC rules – http://j.mp/pdgzX0 And then felt...
[Translate] I present my long form video documentary of the TechCrunch | August Capital Party held Friday, July 25th 2008 atAugust Capital and hosed by TechCrunch Co-Founder / Editor Michael Arrington. First, let me thank Michael for the opportunity to do this at his event, as well as the time he gave me. Second, let me thank all of you who gave me your time at the party, which was the vast majority of you. I set out to form a pattern of opinions on what the Democratic Party and Senator Obama should address on the eve of the Democratic...
[Translate] A great interview which shows the Senator’s command of key Internet issues facing us. Q&A With Senator Barack Obama Net Neutrality Michael Arrington: What is your position on net neutrality? Specifically, should tiered pricing be allowed by the access providers? Senator Barack Obama: As I stated during my visit to Google on November 14, I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality. The Internet is the most open network in history. We have to keep it that way. I will prevent network...
[Translate] Well, it a story of numbers and eyeballs equaling investment value. In this case, to the tune of a 1.6 percent stake that causes Facebook to be valued at $15 Billion. The buyer of that portion of the company is Microsoft — not Google — and for $240 million. What Microsoft will do with Facebook is another guess. But for the present, Michael Arrington at TechCrunch liveblogged the press conference today. Here’s the result: Call Notes Call is beginning at 2:07 pm Viveck Varma, MS, Owen Van Natta,...
[Translate] TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington was totally blunt in his dislike for Trumpia, the site that allows you to send one message to a group of people and on their cell phones, instant message, and phone text at the same time — did I leave anything out? He writes “Don’t even think of using this to contact me. Trumpiais an absurdly stupid new site that, like the efficient crank calling tool we once covered, will likely be used to annoy people far more often than it will be used for any useful purpose. Here’s...
