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
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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.