Not to mention MG Siegler's long history of calling out Google. Always skeptical.

But totally loving the elder statesman analogy. Best part about Tom"s reply is his own humility--Myspace having "decent" technology.

Not to mention MG Siegler's long history of self-promotion.

not to mention EVERY TECHCRUNCH WRITER's long history of self-promotion.

/fyp

I have never seen any story like "ROBIN WAUTERS WONDERS WHY ROBIN WAUTERS ISN'T IN THE HEADLINES," like you see multiple times per week with MG...on HN. Is he the most gossipy person there, now? This is usually the kind of drama you see with Perez Hilton type personalities.

Well, we had those with Arrington, but fortunately he seems to have "vanished" from the HN mind...

That's a good point: MG might just be bored because he doesn't have enough interesting work to do, so he's going to stink up the place until people give him work/money/cocktail-weenies.

What I loved most was Tom's handling of putting out MG's little fire: "You are a loveable renegade. :-)" and also "clearing not roaming the badlands." MG does come off as trying a little too hard to sound tough/badass on Twitter and elsewhere.

MG Siegler is like the Fox News of TechCrunch on top of that.

Frankly, I've grown increasingly disinterested in anything TechCrunch(ers) have to say. Siegler's pieces in particular remind me of partisan political editorials.