““The cost of doing business has declined dramatically, and traditional media companies have also woken up to the opportunities of the Web.”
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Everybody always says this, but TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington, if you get to know him beyond the faux brusque exterior, is actually an exceptionally kind person.
MG managed to capture what is so unique about Arrington last night in this post about covering Instagram’s rise.

12:06: Alexandra Tsotsis So I bought Chanel No.5 today
12:07 Friend are you smelly?
12:07 Alexandra Tsotsis it’s a younger toned down version
12:07 my aunt used to work there
Some nerd actually found the exact date of Ice Cube’s “Good Day” /via murkavenue
Perfect.

My colleague Jason Kincaid left TechCrunch about a week and a half ago, because of a lot of reasons. His departure sucked, namely because our newer writers will probably never have the opportunity to work side by side with him.

TechCrunch reader Elliot Darvick has mocked up what my TC hiring announcement post might have looked like, since I never got one (TechCrunch was a little different back then).
“Hope you like your tech news with a lot of bass and a parent advisory sticker.”
July 26, 2010, a.k.a the birth of #WTFJournalism.
Like everyone else for everything else, I blame Michael Arrington.