Michael Arrington appears to have seen the light about Dave Winer, from the looks of this comment he made on TechCrunch:
Dave: just stop. you’ll do and say anything to get what you want. even lie. even delete previous messages and reverse your opinion.http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2008/dave-winer-is-loren-feldmans-puppet
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/davefeldman.png
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/13/the-rules-apply-to-everyone/
you have no integrity. you have no core ethics. it’s just all about you all the time.
This latest blowup began when Winer questioned Arrington’s integrity because TechCrunch is one of the suggested users recommended on Twitter. Winer sent a direct message to TechCrunch writer MG Siegler telling him to “stop fucking with RSS” because of an article arguing that RSS is dead. (Note that the article was by Steve Gillmor, not Siegler — Winer is a fucking genius.)
As you can see, Arrington is using Eye on Winer as a resource to document Winer’s hypocrisy. We compliment him on his good taste. They were best bros going back to the early days of TechCrunch — Arrington once served as his lawyer — but Arrington seems to have figured out why so many people in tech will never work with Winer.
If you know anyone else who hasn’t learned this lesson, send them to us.
Tags: dave winer, eye on winer, mg siegler, michael arrington, steve gillmor, TechCrunch, Twitter
Ha, that’s a good read. Looking at the TC comments it appears that Arrington is losing it too.
Do you ever get the feeling that by even hearing about this sort of stuff, you are implicated in the massive fail?
Life is too short to be subscribed to useless crap like TC. Arrington, Gillmor and Winer could all DIAF and the industry’s average IQ would lift at least a couple of points.
Die in a fire?
Bingo.
To answer your question, there are times that it seems pointless to call attention to how hypocritical and self-serving some tech A-listers are, particularly Winer. But as long as they continue to have influence, it’s worth puncturing those balloons. How long has that guy been shitting all over the work of others because he perceives it as a threat to him?
Interesting how there’s been no mention of Twitter in the past few days – when it’s being used to such great effect in Iran, a good example of the citizen journalism that Dave talks about so often…but nothing. Curious….