After his startup review blog TechCrunch took off, attorney Michael Arrington expanded his online empire with sites like MobileCrunch for phones and CrunchGear for gadgets. So it's no suprise to find the domain TuneCrunch.com registered to Arrington.

TechCrunch tech blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick, innocently blogging about "rent-free" housing in a roundup of the "gay male online social networking space":

Valleywag intern Beth Gottfried is here to wrap up the best things you had to say this week.

Now that the New York Post (motto: "Who needs reputability when you've got CAPS?") pumped fresh helium into the YouTube valuation, saying the video company's founders now think it's worth $1.5 billion, bloggers are back to claiming that YouTube could really be worth that much, guys!

TechCrunch blog founder Michael Arrington will expand his web empire today with an enterprise blog, according to a source. TC writer Nik Cubrilovic (who also heads web startup Omnidrive) will edit the new site.

Now that TechCrunch blog founder Michael Arrington moved his monthly megabashes elsewhere, he can hold intimate house parties again. Last night, Mr. Bubble-blower had some guests over to his Atherton ranch after the Future of Web Apps conference in San Francisco. Scott Beale, the Frank Worth of Web 2.0, shot these pics.

Are you at the exciting Future of Web Apps Summit? Oh, you have work to do instead? Well the founder of community site Metafilter is there, and he's heckling over IM:

• Beavis: Hey this man's computers catch fire and he's having a "Fireside Chat" in the Technology Pavilion. Butthead: Huh, huh, huh. [Consumerist]

Takeaway: Several big tech bloggers recently launched job boards. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has the best board, but his competitors rejected his partnership offers, fearing he'd take over the partnership.

The Business 2.0 September cover, picturing Fark.com owner Drew Curtis surrounded by falling cash, was cute, but it just lacked oomph. So Gawker Media designer Jennifer Thorpe punched it up a bit, adding TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington in the process.

Actually, this video explains the spat between Valleywag and business blog TechCrunch as coherently as the intro to Battlestar Galactica explains the Cylon War — which is to say, not at all. But it sure was fun to watch.

Earlier this morning, when I asked about a Business 2.0 photo of blogger Michael Arrington, "Why is he not lighting his cigar with a flaming Ben Franklin?" I honestly meant it. I had not seen the table of contents in the magazine's print version.

A classic case of "not going far enough."

"Michael Arrington is a partying kind of guy," says Business 2.0 in their feature on the TechCrunch magnate and the other nouveau riche of blogging, as they describe the buildup to the crazy night of last weekend's TechCrunch7 party.

• Captain's LiveJournal 060817: Detecting peanuts-for-brains life form over at Planet Google's holodeck where a semblance of a joke is being made. Must inquire more about this blog structure and why humans look so self-satisfied after hitting "publish." [Google Blog]

• Web 2.0 start-up Kiko gets auctioned off for $50K. Kinda like that chick from "Family Matters" whose boyfriend pimped her out to porn. And both heed the disclaimer: Past traffic is no guarantee of future traffic. [Ebay]

Authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel got halfway naked at the last Bay Area TechCrunch party. Now someone calling himself "Silicon Valley Guy" offers a bounty for a photo of a streaker at the next bash.

Okay, that's not a fair way to put it. But the TechCrunch blog founder tells BusinessWeek he's willing to buy other blogs if the market tanks: "I'm hoping everything crashes. Then I want to go buy all the big blogs."

Tonight's film-with-commentary comes from Valleywag's new intern, Beth Gottfried.

As I said, a growing startup should expect to one day rise above pushing publicity through A-list bloggers like TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. Today, Mike grumbles about that very phenomenon.