Arrington Fires Back At Calacanis

In a post this morning titled "At My Wit's End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us" Michael Arrington, who recently sound his blog TechCrunch to AOL, fires his salvo across the Calacanis bow after being served legal documents from Calicanis' legal representation. In a he said / she said style post Arrington lays down his account of the rocky relationship with Calicanis and the gloves have appeared to come off. 

Calacanis has spent most of the last year saying some of the most ridiculous things about me and about TechCrunch, and I’ve stayed completely silent. Mostly because I knew he just wanted attention, but also because I assumed he’d eventually calm down and move on to doing more productive things. Also, somehow, I still consider him a friend. Now, though, the whole story has to get out. 

In the legal document presented in Arrington's post Calacanis is seeking:

1. For compensatory damages in a sum according to proof at trial, together with interest thereon at the legal nite;

2. For exemplary and punative damages where permitted by law;

3. For attornerys fees and costs of suit.

4. For such other relief as may be deemed proper and necessary by the Court.

I've been listening to Arrington and Calacanis for a while on podcast such as TWIT, and they both seem like characters who speak their minds, I can imagine their friendship/partnership must have been similar to a mixture of gas and naphtha... very volatile and extremely flamible. 

Check out the Arrington post, and wait for it... Calacanis is sure to have his rebuttal.

 

Bricked your iPhone? These guys might still want it

The guys at TechCrunch have found a site that's looking for your old iPod, working or not! According to this post, buymybrokenipod.com will buy working or otherwise ipods and will give you a quote before you decide. You have to pay the shipping, but if you've just bricked your iPhone like Michael Arrington, $213 for an otherwise useless (but pretty) piece of technology might not seem so bad... the broken ones are taken apart for parts and the working ones are refurbished for resale, a nice green alternative to the trash bin!

Twitter for your ears

Michael Arrington has written a post about a new Dave Winer offering called TwitterGram. Winer, the father of blogging, has created a service that allows you to add small audio files (200 kb) to Twitter. The file can be uploaded from your PC/Mac or recorded from your cell phone, Twittergram puts it on a server, and then creates a post on Twitter that links to it. Not sure how this will be received by the tweeting public but who would have believed that Twitter would be the huge success that it is? Then again Dave often develops things, just because he can...