Posts Tagged with ‘Chris-Shipley’

Shel vs. Loren (and puppet). TechCrunch50 vs. DEMO. Mike Arrington vs. Pete Cashmore (and, well, pretty much everyone). We've all seen the constant battle of words in the blogosphere, but the real question is why these altercations come up at all.
In the world of Web 2.0, attention is everything. Getting attention and maintaining an audience are crucial to any type of success for a company, and the struggle for eyeballs has continued to escalate as a result. It's no longer [...]

When I saw the announcement for TechCrunch50 (or whatever number Michael Arrington and Jason Calcanis end up changing it to), I let out a little gasp, but I'm not sure why I was surprised. It took me a little while to digest that they were so blatant as to schedule the dates for their start-up launch event right on top of DEMO's fall dates.
It's taken me a few hours to digest it, really. I had to consider what this means [...]