Wasn’t it just other day that Michael Arrington was whining about how unfair and mean people were to him? And yet that didn’t stop Erick Schonfeld from running a long story on TechCrunch about a completely baseless rumor that Last.Fm was sharing user data with the RIAA in order to track ...

Last night I read a hit-job post like I haven't seen since my days on the G in Brooklyn during the 70s. The hit-job I am referring to is Erick Schonfeld's piece about Matt Marshall joining the DEMO conference team. Apparently because one person (Chris Shipley) decides to change her focus after runni...

Image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid via CrunchBase There is an interesting article by Jason Lee Miller over on WebProNews about the death of blogging. I don’t really see it that way; I don’t think that as bloggers we have really gotten started yet. There is still so much to do, that this will ...

Daniel Lyons writes for Newsweek: For two years I was obsessed with trying to turn a blog into a business. I posted 10 or 20 items a day to my site, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, rarely taking a break. I blogged from cabs, using my BlackBerry. I blogged in the middle of the night, having awakened ...

TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, left distraught after a stranger spat on him at a tech conference in Munich, promised he'd take February off. Two days in, he's having a hard time leaving the Internet. First the voluble tech blogger, an opinionated chronicler of the obscurest of Web startups, an...

Michael Arrington can be a fairly arrogant ass when he wants to be, but he’s got this feet-on-the-ground aura that puts him in a separate class from trolls and attention whores. He can be a sensationalist, but there’s always something concrete to back it. It’s substantial sensation...

There’s no doubt that being successful can annoy people, and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has gotten a fair share of haters out there. I doubt he didn’t expect that, he’s pretty straight-forward in his posts over at TechCrunch, and I can see people being annoyed by this guy...

Having famously "plowed through" San Francisco's eligible bachelorettes, Digg founder Kevin Rose went L.A. for his most recent paramour, Shira Lazar. Who is this Web-video wannabe with links to Dov Charney and Julia Allison? Has a real media job. Lazar has already achieved something beyond the reach...

Six months ago, startup pimp Michael Arrington of TechCrunch put out a call for help on a hardware project, specifically a $200 minimalist web tablet. Lo and behold, his team has made it! Well, one.......

I have often wondered how it happens that everyone is always willing to share a piece of two of advice about everything related to the internet and online industry while people will rarely act as experts in other industries - be it nuclear science or construction - without proper training and real k...