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TechCrunch = Valleywag

December 1, 2007 |

I guess very little is happening this weekend. How else to explain this post by Michael Arrington over on TechCrunch: Vimeo Founder Fired, Does A Bong Hit.

Jakob Lodwick, the co-founder of IAC owned video site Vimeo, left the company today. The reason? Apparently Lodwick didn’t see eye to eye with the IAC brass on creative issues, and specifically had a run in with IAC chief Barry Diller three weeks ago.

It’s one thing to report on a founder leaving his company. But it’s another thing to write about how his girlfriend had to find out about it on his blog. What’s next? Reporting on the boob job some tech executive’s girlfriend got?

Come on Michael. I know it’s a slow weekend and we can’t talk Beacon 24/7, but this is definitely a low point in the history of TechCrunch (the PayPerPost item a few weeks ago was another). I hear from more and more people that they are losing interest in TechCrunch because it has veered of its original mission. If you want TechCrunch to be Valleywag, go ahead, but I (and many others) will unsubscribe.

Get back on track, please. I miss the old TechCrunch.


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