Paris Hilton Story Leads to Geek Revolt on TechCrunch
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, who hasn’t had a day off since the Carter administration, posted a what I thought was a pretty funny and chuckle-inducing post this weekend.
Apparently, Paris Hilton has been spotted cavorting around MySpace co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe. Hilton, who is 15 years DeWolfe’s junior, has been attending every one of DeWolfe’s many parties in the Hamptons on Long Island. DeWolfe is married but separated, and Hilton is supposedly dating some other guy that I’m not going to bother to figure out.
However, the biggest news from TechCrunch’s story was the massive backlash against it in the comments area. A long parade of geeks lambasted Arrington for daring to post such drivel on what is supposed to be a serious tech site.
First of all, it’s the weekend. Arrington doesn’t have to post anything. Second, it’s not like he went all-out for the story, putting off something more important. He saw it, he reported it, it was funny, and Paris Hilton kind of got some geek-cred this weekend by topping Digg with her McCain rebuttal ad, which was really funny.
So what’s worse? Tech celebrity gossip or bomb-throwing humorless geek commenters? I’ll say the latter is worse so long as the former has it’s place, and one could hardly call TechCrunch a gossip rag.
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