Michael Arrington
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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Orange, California ) is the founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch , a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. [ 4 ] Wired magazine also included him in a flowchart of "internet blowhards" citing his obsession with " Web 2.0 ". [ 5 ] [ edit ] BiographyCrunchNotes
Many of you know all about Sam Sethi, the former TechCrunch writer who left after a disagreement and then went on to create BlogNation. Two days ago Sethi filed a lawsuit against us for libel and other issues. As we always do, we’re posting the litigation threats and will continue to fight the litigation publicly. See our previous posts involving YouTube , Marvel , Rivals , Mediascrape EarthComber and Richard Figueroa . I don’t need to go into much additional background here. My post from late 2007 gives the complete history of this guy and what he has done.
SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like:
