This past Wednesday it was made public that 300+ confidential documents from Twitter had been stolen. While most industry related sites chose not to post these documents, a few did, most notably being TechCrunch.
Michael Arrington's TechCrunch has been the top tech blog for quite some time in terms of traffic. It has been discovered that Pete Cashmore's Mashable has actually overtaken that title now.
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington had an unfortunate encounter at the Digital, Life, Design Conference he was attending in Munich, Germany yesterday.He describes the incident in post titled "Some Things Need To Change" where an anonymous person walked up to him and spat in his face.
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch asks if Apple is building a search engine, pretty much creating rumors and squashing them all within a few paragraphs. The story is interesting to note, though.
Over at TechCrunch, Michael Arrington has a post announcing that his company is suing Facebook for $25 million for allowing "advertisers to post ads using my picture and name to endorse their products without my explicit permission."
In the nearly three years this writer has been diligently typing away, we witnessed cute and compelling blogs grow into the kind of pre-pubescent youth who rationalize violence as a way of dominating their little island.
Quite a major kerfuffle has developed in the past 24 hours over Facebook booting Robert Scoble out of the social network. Facebook sent him an email that accused him of running an automated script which is in violation of Facebook’s terms of use.
In a session called “The Cult of Blogging,” the sect turned out to be a little smaller than expected; out of three scheduled speakers, only one managed to show up.
Om Malik gets a pass - the poor fellow apparently threw his back out - but Michael Arrington simply forgot to come, leaving us with Leo Laporte and surprise guest Justine Ezarik.
It wasn't long ago a couple of analysts pulled a few blogs to the air hose and blew up their valuations. Michael Arrington's TechCrunch was among them with an MSRP of $100 million and CNet the prime candidate to buy. Then, this morning Arrington said something very curious.
Call it the latest in castoffs of a litigious society, or maybe a lesson in the new transparency the Internet allows. Simpler, if you want to keep a legal threat quiet, make sure your threat is a) valid and b) not made to a blogger with a history of telling everybody about legal threats.
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