In primaries, Silicon Valley as irrelevant as ever
Welcome to the club, Mike. Fox Business Network invited TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington onto its Happy Hour show yesterday. Arrington had been led to believe the topic would be his site's presidential primary endorsements, for which he interviewed the candidates and asked for positions on 10 tech-centric issues. Instead, host Cody Willard asked Arrington about Google versus Yahoo. This happens every election cycle: People who normally talk about tech switch gears and start making big political statements. The mainstream public ignores them. Might as well ask Barack Obama to blog about Apache server configuration.