Just to give the following collection of screen captures from the dust up tonight on Twitter a bit of background we have to start with a post the other day by Dare Obasanjo where he made some references to TechCrunch turning into FuckedCompany 2.0
The current financial crises which has led to the worst week in the history of the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes as well as worldwide turmoil in financial markets to the point where countries like Austria, Russia, Iceland, Romania and Ukraine had to suspend trading on their stock markets. This has clearly pointed to the need for another schadenfreude filled website which gloats about the misfortunes of others. Thankfully TechCrunch has stepped up to the plate. Here are some of their opening morsels as they begin their transformation from tech bubble hypesters into its gloating eulogizers
Well Michael being the type of guy he is couldn’t let that go by without a returning shot across the bows at Dare
In fact, his post, which ostensibly calls for everyone to be positive no matter what, is really just a clever way of inciting the mobs to blame (in this case) TechCrunch for the market problems.
This isn’t ok from anyone, and it really isn’t ok from a high profile Microsoft blogger. This is the second time Microsoft, through Obasanjo, has attacked us when we disagreed with them. No other large companies as far as I know use their employees as attack dogs to silent dissent. It’s time for Microsoft to stop this nonsense.
Now after cleverly connecting Microsoft; every one’s company to hate, to this exchange one would figure that was the end of it. Well it turns out it wasn’t as demonstrated by an exchange between Michael and another Microsoft blogger – MossyBlog. It all started out innocently enough with MossyBlog enjoying a nice quiet exchange with Scott Hanselman
At this point Mr. Arrington jumps into the conversation and Scott retires to the sidelines
Updated with the following that showed up after the original post
Ah the joy of Twitter on a quiet Sunday night.
Ah the dry days of August when everyone was struggling to find anything in the tech field; or more specifically the Web 2.0 and social media arena, to write about. We all hung around FriendFeed and Twitter commenting on how everything would change after the two big tech conferences of September. Well they have come and gone and guess what…..
During the past couple of days I have been working on a new blog and part of getting it ready was deciding on the layout style that I wanted to use for. In the tech blogosphere the accepted norm is the traditional blog style – all the most current posts displayed in full or excerpt style on the main page in a newest to oldest posts. Anything else and voices of outrage rise forward, especially if you run advertising. Then all of a sudden you get people suggesting that you’re just trying to gouge extra page views out of your readers to make an extra buck.
TechCrunch readers. I am sure it will die down over time as people get use to it; if it already hasn’t, but it does raise an interesting question. Would it be easier for a new tech oriented blog to come into the space using a magazine; or another non-traditional, style than it would be for an already established blog?
The blogging world has many personalities some of which we like and others that constantly rub us the wrong way. Some might be uhm.. shall we say .. egotistical and others are willing to give of their time. Of all the personalities out there Duncan Riley is probably best known for his time spent writing for 
