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European TechCrunch competitor BlogNation
imploded two weeks ago. Yesterday, its founder Sam Sethi wrote a long post to explain how
it was all Michael Arrington's fault. Today, Arrington responded. Both are blowhards who love nothing more than to spew verbiage at each other. Logorrhea as a lethal weapon. How to get your dose of
schadenfreude without getting bored to death? By reading these 100-word versions of each missive.
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sam sethi
One would think the
nasty three-way between BlogNation's Sam Sethi, his unpaid editors, and Michael Arrington, his former boss at TechCrunch, would be over. Sethi is stepping down and putting the Euro-focused startup blog up for auction. But, no, the saga
continues.
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TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington
notes the launch of European blog netowrk MyKinda with a swipe at MyKinda's competitor BlogNation. He published emails sent by BlogNation founder Sam Sethi, a former TechCrunch writer, to Blognation's employees and potential venture capitalists. Why? Well, there's bad blood here. And we're not talking about
Sethi's feud with Arrington, either.
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followup
Yesterday's
post about former TechCrunch UK staffer Sam Sethi's decision to take Michael Arrington's
TechCrunch head-on in covering American technology startups didn't capture the whole picture.
Oliver Starr, global editor for mobile content, will cover mobile and tech issues for BlogNation USA. Oliver Starr is also an ex-employee of Michael Arrington, as a founding author of
MobileCrunch, a sister site of
TechCrunch focused on mobile computing.
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Sam Sethi, a former blogger for the UK edition of TechCrunch, Michael Arrington's tech blog, had tried to keep things cordial with his former boss. The site he started,
BlogNation, is the global equivalent of TechCrunch, but direct competition was
avoided by not covering American startups. No longer. Sethi is taking the fight stateside with
BlogNation USA. TechCrunch UK, meanwhile, remains
defunct despite Arrington's planned June 1 relaunch.
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