michael arrington

I stumbled upon an interesting thread by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. It seems that there’s a controversy in the blogosphere about what sites are featured by TechCrunch, with many people attacking Arrington when he doesn’t review their sites. The claim is that Arrington refuses to showcase many web2.0 websites because he is in bed with some of the developers of the competition, or as Arrington puts it, it’s a “friendship conflict” because of a personal agenda or a favor to his friends. Arrington addresses this issue better than anyone else can.

Let’s begin by introducing TechCrunch. If you go to their page, they have 132K subscribed users. That’s a regular readership of 132,000+ people. In the blogosphere, that’s a hell of a lot of people. It’s so popular that within several hours of announcing TechCrunch 8 in New York City, the 450 spots were taken, and I missed the deadline by a few hours. (I was fortunate to have made the wait list.)

TechCrunch is a blog that often explores startups. Its reviews are biased yet interesting. TechCrunch is updated multiple times daily and its content is damn good. I suppose that’s why people keep coming back, despite what may be duplicitious ethics (or so the opponents say).