And now Arrington's side to the story

Earlier today, I wrote that this sage involving Loic, Le Web 3, Sam Sethi and Michael Arrington had more legs than a centipede.  Anther foot has fallen.  This time Mike Arrington tells his story in the measured, logical, persuasive tones that he uses when he is at the top of his game.

But he fights hard and in so doing, implies that Sam Sethi has absconded with company funds. Amid the multitude of comments is Sam's response that implies a law suit, probably for libel, will be forthcoming.

I've followed this story until now because it has issues that I think is relevant to the blogosphere. I have stated that I consider both Loic and Mike as friends who have made serious errors in judgement and I still believe that is the case.

Loic, did not listen to what his customers had to say. Mike may have had grounds to fire Sam, may have not actually fired Sam, but he did manage to toss kerosene into a bonfire--or perhaps Sam, with pre-meditated wickedness made it appear as if that were the case.

In any case, the issues are getting out of the arena of business, blogging and global neighborhoods.  This is probably my last post on this subject.  I have taken therapeutic mud baths before, and despite promises, was never purged of any toxins that I know of..











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Comments

[Billy]

Couldn't agree more, this one's getting tedious now.

[Doug Karr]

Hopefully everyone sees that there are lessons to be learned here:
1. Making an error in judgement may be common, making it on the net is costly. Think before you decide you want to engrave your mistake in the granite of the net!
2. Business is business, even if you take it personally. It's business, move on.
3. People want to work with the guy who walks away from the name-calling, not the name-caller.

I thought we learned these lessons back in the old net days when folks used to get 'flamed'. I guess not.

[Netanel Jacobsson]

Shel, I must say that I really enjoy your language - " have taken therapeutic mud baths before"..Have no further comments on this blog-soap-opera-drama mud, only that perhaps the conversation has become too naken - do we really want to "see" it all? I personally prefer people in decent clothing and if they intent to strip - at least that they leave their underwears on..

[alan patrick]

The problem with communication is that sometimes there is too much of it :)

This reminds me of the Altnet 10 years ago.