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Would you flip to Microsoft?

The announcement of BizSpark didn't get a huge amount of attention and I'm not surprised. After 24 years of running Wintel based systems I flipped to Mac and have never missed anything Microsoft offered. OK - I'm an edge case that wants to run as much as I can in...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mike Arrington, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Open Source, Management, Hardware, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Note to Mike Arrington: Thick skin is your only defense

Methinks Mike Arrington protests too much. He gets his information like a VC, offering whuffie and sometimes cash investments to sources, which means that he gets some scoops because people talk to him for a variety of reasons, not just the factMike, get some reporters who are charged specifically with...

Tags: portfolio company, Mike Arrington

Blog posts 2006-11-01

Arrington is actually helping mainstream media by sucking away their readers

Mike Arrington wanted to create a dialogue with mainstream media at ONA. Steve Gillmor says he shouldnt have wasted his time. Steves right.You want to get the attention of mainstream media? Kick em in the revenue stream. The real competition therefore is Craigslist. You match up six Arringtons with six...

Tags: Arrington, mainstream media, media, Ask

Blog posts 2006-10-09

MIA at Gartner Symposium: The new guard (aka Guard 2.0)

Strangely, at a time when the usually conservative Gartner research outfit is talking more about how businesses and organizations shouldnt so quickly rule out bleeding edge technologies, theres one group of people thats noticeably missing from the events agenda: the innovators that are bleeding that edge. For example, I...

Tags: Gartner Inc., Gartners

Blog posts 2006-10-09

Web 2.0 cold shower: Mike vs. Nick

Rather than stoop to respond to Nick Carr’s weekend, gratuitous frontal attack, “Cold Treats,” Mike Arrington has taken his version of the high road by choosing to match Carr’s current treatise on the hypocritical inegalities of the blogosphere, "The Great Unread," with an Arrington style treatise: “Is Nick Carr the...

Tags: Digg, Mike Arrington, &ldquo, Is Nick Carr

Blog posts 2006-08-16

Gnomedex: Web 2.0 is not an echochamber

Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, which chronicles the parade of Web 2.0 products and services, chaired the first Gnomedex session of the day, proclaiming that Web 2.0 is not just an echochamber. He gave the example of Digg, which he said is getting to the size of the New York Times....

Tags: Arrington, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-06-30

A Hamburger Today

Now that BloggerCon is over, I'm going to start releasing some of the backlog of Attention Deficit Theatre and Gillmor Gangs that have built up. Those who, like me, stayed in bed this morning and listened to the ConCast were treated to a remarkable string of interesting stuff, none of...

Tags: Doc, Mike Arrington, Bloggercon

Blog posts 2006-06-25

BloggerCon: Core values and Mike Arrington rails against the trolls

BloggerCon: Core values and Mike Arrington rails against the trollsTherapy SessionMike is still making the mistake of trying to get people to feel sorry for him. Instead, he just ends up amplifying the perception that he is insecure about whether the criticism about his conflicts and thin skin are...

Tags: troll, CORE VALUES, Bloggercon, Mike Arrington

Discussion threads 2006-06-24

Ozzie and the Gang

Just posted the Gillmor Gang's two-part conversation with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's most civic-minded CTO, about his gifting of the Live Clipboard technology he announced at ETech. Jon Udell, Mike Arrington, Dan Farber, Dana Gardner and I drill down. Thanks to Ray and Richard Eckel for the time.I'm on the way...

Tags: Mike Arrington

Blog posts 2006-03-16

Welcome back

I've invited Mike Arrington to join the Gillmor Gang based on his appearance on this week's show. For some time now, I've struggled with the internal dynamics of the group, beginning with Mike Vizard's slow but steady conversion from as Dave Slusher so aptly put it a "CB Radio" trivializer...

Tags: Mike Arrington, Gang

Blog posts 2006-01-29

iPlodius II

Just got back from breakfast at Max's with Dave Winer, Mike Arrington, and Craig Cline. I, like Dave, had the 4-cheese omelette. Not there were Scoble, Gabe Memorandum, or Chris Pirillo, though they were discussed at length.I spent a good deal of time educating Mike on the inherent value of...

Tags: Mike Arrington

Blog posts 2005-10-15

Additional Resources

Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us all

Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us allabsurd eh!So Arrington thinks Sam's litigation was absurd, and has decided not to submit to the the jurisdiction of the UK courts. I heard Mike was a lawyer, so it seems strange tactics to me - and surely he's been...

Tags: INTERNET, Michael Arrington

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Six things to know if your Facebook username has been squatted

Mike Arrington couldn't get his name as a Facebook username when registration opened on 6/12/09. Here are six things you should know if you're in the same boat. by Denise Howell

Tags: Facebook, Username, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2009-06-13

A Twitter driven social experiment

According to my Twitter account, I have 3,852 followers. I follow about 1,500. I have no idea how many are active, passive or dead though I'm sure someone out there will have a tool that tells me. Anyhoo - over the weekend I tried an experiment...

Tags: EPIC, Twitter, Stacey Monk, Web Site Development, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Watch the Obama Inauguration on your iPhone

Ustream is prepping an iPhone application that lets users watch live streams from the service on their iPhone. Mike Arrington got a look at as early version of the app and reports that it lets users watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from the iPhone. The apps also lets you...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Ustream, Corporate Communications, Productivity, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Twitter authority frenzy led to Twitter phishing meltdown

Folks like to know where they stand, and in recent weeks people on Twitter have been, well, all a-twitter about the idea of Twitter Authority. They want to know who is most influentialâ€"a repeat of the phenomenon that swept the blogosphere a while back. It's a human thing, but it...

Tags: Twitter, Twitterverse, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Seesmic gets a new set of threads

  Seesmic's black, orange and red colors are now part of the company's history. As is its attempt to make a full Flash-based interface. As of this morning, the company has launched a re-designed HTML interface that is both cleaner and simpler. Mike Arrington sums it up...

Tags: Seesmic, Flash, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-16

Innovation in the midst of the downturn

In the run up to the holiday season I'd like to pause my usually curmudgeonly posts to strike a note of optimism. This week I was in Paris at LeWeb. Despite the crappy wifi, food shortage and heating problems over which the organizers had no control, the mood was generally...

Tags: Innovation, Bank, Team, Leadership, Team Management, Strategy, Financial Services, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-12

Seesmic layoffs and a new reality?

Valleywag's somewhat unkind depiction of the layoffs at Seesmic: Seesmic's newest feature: layoffs is but the latest in an emerging trend of Silicon Valley startups reigning in their spend. Over in Denmark, a remarkable account of failure has emerged. Earlier this week, I debunked some of the talk around ROI,...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Layoff, Social Media, Valleywag, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-16

TechCrunch50: Day 2

Yesterday's presentations were a lot of fun to cover. I'm getting right back into the grind today. 6:30 a.m. Here is a list of today's presentations: Alfabetic Presented by Oded Broshi and Arik Kopelman DropBox (Presented by Drew Houston...

Tags: Facebook, Phone, Tim O'Reilly, Mark Cuban, Mytopia, Swype, Mixtt Redefining, iMindi World, Popego Cut, exchangeP, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Channel Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-09