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Meghan Asha's family friend: Arrington was "certainly a lapse in judgment"
Nicholas Carlson · 03/03/08 04:40PMSilicon Valley heiress Meghan Asha, the daughter of an original investor in Sun Microsystems, needs to stop fraternizing with the plebes, a longtime family friend warns. "Her choices in friendships, recent or otherwise, aren't serving her well," this friend writes, singling out ex-boyfriend Michael Arrington — "an unattractive offering" — and fellow geek addict Julia Allison:
Michael Arrington places Jimmy Wales on suicide watch
Owen Thomas · 03/03/08 01:00PMMichael Arrington, a fragile soul, imagines the rest of the Valley is as weak-willed as he is. Without mentioning Jimmy Wales by name, Arrington distraughtly lays out his fears that Valleywag will drive him to kill himself. How little you know, Michael. For Wales, Valleywag induces not the big death but the little one. In his sex chats with Rachel Marsden, Wales fantasized about taking the Canadian TV commentator to a public event like this spring's Time 100 party, and wondered why Valleywag hadn't previously outed him. The transcripts, below:
Swingin' single Michael Arrington gets a date — sort of
Jordan Golson · 03/03/08 06:33AMWe learned a lot about TechCrunch's Michael Arrington yesterday. Writing about his 23andMe genetics profile, we now know he is quite tall, has a lower than normal chance of getting Type II diabetes and has wet earwax. Lovely. We also know that Michael Arrington is single, something he blames us for. Sorry, buddy. But, things could be looking brighter! Arrington got an unusual proposition in the comments on his post: "I am not interested just in your DNA results. you seem fairly successful, may I have your DNA? (looking for a donor)." His answer:
Why TED Sucks
Nick Douglas · 03/02/08 04:03PMTED is the Bono of conferences. (Except Bono wasn't even on this year's guest list.) The Technology Entertainment Design conference is so bold-name, so visionary that you have to like it, which is why you can so easily hate it. But in 2006, the conference awarded its annual $100,000 prize to a man named Larry Brilliant who's heading up Google's non-profit arm, and how do you top that? This year, B-list tech press have rejected the conference they were never invited to. But they really do have a point:
TechCrunch traffic, according to Michael Arrington
Nicholas Carlson · 02/29/08 05:20PMArrington blames us for his latest breakup
Nicholas Carlson · 02/29/08 12:30PMCameron Diaz, Arianna Huffington, and the 1,196 other TED attendees Michael Arrington hates
Owen Thomas · 02/28/08 08:38PMTED, the schmoozeathon taking place in Monterey right now, prides itself on staying exclusive and bringing together only the best of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Manhattan. TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is deeply unhappy that he's not invited. So much so that he staged a falling-out with Frenchepreneur Loic Le Meur, a gloating TED attendee. But he's really going to boil when he reads this: The complete list of TED's 1,198 attendees, each of whom he is now personally committed to hate. Arrington's new enemies list includes Al Gore, Amy Tan, Arianna Huffington, Ben Affleck, Cameron Diaz, Forest Whitaker, Isaac Mizrahi, Jeff Bezos, John Cusack, Maria Bartiromo, Marissa Mayer, Max Levchin, Meg Ryan, Peter Thiel, Roger McNamee, Si Newhouse IV, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Steve Case, Steve Wozniak, Thomas Dolby, Tim O'Reilly, and Will Smith. The rest are here.
Arrington and French pal in Twitter snit over TED
Jordan Golson · 02/28/08 06:53PMTechCrunch's Michael Arrington and Frenchman Loic Le Meur got into a 140-character Twitter war this afternoon. The topic? The TED conference and French military history. Arrington said TED is lame because he wasn't given a free pass: "I defame anything cool that ignores me, until it stops doing so. it's worked so far." Loic defended the conference: "TED is the best conference... Pay your tickets it's worth it!" Arrington and Loic then claim to "remove" each other from their friends lists and Arrington made some tired jokes about France's inability to win a war.
Asha already moving on, planning to get geeks gone wild in Miami
Nicholas Carlson · 02/25/08 07:00PMMichael Arrington is single
Nicholas Carlson · 02/25/08 01:20PMFour eager tipsters inform us that TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is once again single. We hope this doesn't mean it's completely over between Arrington and his on-again, off-again fling, Meghan Asha. But if it does, we just hope Arrington has learned his lesson. Next Valentine's, Michael, send flowers. Then, late February next year, maybe you won't still be looking for "a relationship" and "dating," as your profile indicates.
Arrington threatens us with twice as much startup blogging
Nicholas Carlson · 02/22/08 12:40PMGreat. Some guy writes a blog post about how TechCrunch is "the opposite of building a community," whatever that means, and it gets Michael Arrington all pissed off. Now he's threatening to quit. But not for good. For bad. For twice as bad. "On the issue of community," Arrington responded, "the problem isn't that our community is growing."
Meghan Asha plays with toys not named Arrington
Nicholas Carlson · 02/21/08 06:00PMMeghan Asha — the SIlicon Valley heiress who keeps TechCrunch's Michael Arrington as her on-again, off-again boy toy — found a new dog to play with at yesterday's toy fair in New York. Improvements over Arrington: He can't talk, but he can wag his tail."Do you want a date?" Asha asks. "Do you want to come home with me? I would take really good care of you." Below, in another clip, Asha in a lurid threesome.
TechCrunch races us to bottom, wins again
Paul Boutin · 02/20/08 11:49PMTechCrunch writer Duncan Riley offers a more colorful description of Persai programmer and Uncov blogger Ted Dziuba than I could ever, ever come up with. If you missed it, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington recently tried unsuccessfully to hire Dziuba to port his Uncov-style nastiness to Arrington's platform. Style points to Riley for his use of c*nt. I had no idea he was a Unix guy.
Happy birthday, Julia Allison, we're finding a new man for you
Nicholas Carlson · 02/20/08 01:30PMGeek-loving cover girl Julia Allison turns 27 soon and all she wants — other than a MacBook Air and whole long list of stuff — is a boy, "tied with a red bow, like a new car for graduation." Knowing Julia's taste for geeks like Kevin Rose and some guy who used to run some video site, we figured: Who better to help Julia land a new man than Valleywag readers? So help her out and vote in our latest poll.
Fred Wilson vs. Michael Arrington, the 140-character version
Owen Thomas · 02/18/08 01:44AMVenture capitalist Fred Wilson has lashed out at TechCrunch over its coverage of some startup you've never heard of. TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington responded by accusing Wilson of being biased. I'd summarize the whole spat for you, but Wilson's and Arrington's Twitters have done the job already.
Michael Arrington on why Seattle drools, Valley rules
Owen Thomas · 02/15/08 04:12PMMeet Meghan Asha, hedge fund analyst
Nicholas Carlson · 02/12/08 07:20PMAdmit it. Michael Arrington's flame du jour, Meghan Asha, is working her way into your cold, schadenfreude-loving hearts, people. First you found out she doesn't need Arrington's bankroll. Then, the private plane. Now this from the above clip: She used to work as a hedge fund analyst and is now starting a company on the side. Plus, she's adorkably awkward on TV.
TechCrunch fails to hire Uncov editor
Paul Boutin · 02/11/08 03:58PMGive Michael Arrington credit: He tried to hire his worst best critic, Uncov editor Ted Dziuba, who spent several months shadowing TechCrunch posts with scathing, technically astute slams of Web 2.0 startups and their products. Arrington's offer sounds pretty sweet: "write a weekly or monthly column for us. we'll call it a counter balance to our hype. No rules or restrictions on what you write," was Arrington's email, according to Dziuba. But from what I know of Ted, he has two reasons not to take the offer.
Meghan Asha's party plane
Nicholas Carlson · 02/07/08 05:00PMVideoblogger Meghan Asha, who pals around with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington from time to time, comes from a wealthy Los Gatos family, we hear. The evidence? She flies around the country in a private plane. Here's what that party venue in the sky looks like. That's Asha between fellow geek-luster Julia Allison and comedian Demetri Martin. A tight squeeze.