Are we Arrington´s monkeys?

With so much written about the Twitter stolen documents and their publication by TechCrunch, I chose Shel Holtz as the stance that makes more sense. It is really the only side any sensible person could ever take in such a situation. It’s actually a very sad day for all that champion Social Media and plays right into the hands of such cynics as Andrew Keen that makes us all out to be a bunch of monkeys. And we have to all effects taken the bait.

I had expected so much more from Michael Arrington yet much of the same from Scoble, the latter revealing himself to be a nouveau riche of the business world, traitor to the apparently misplaced trust of all that made him who he is today.

Even though we have learnt to ignore some of Arlington’s less politically correct stances, this has to be a giant leap in attitudes. Maybe the reality is that we never really knew him.

Ironically, I envisage that Arrington’s stance will only encourage many a hacker to give him much of the same medicine. From Twitter’s rather humble response, I suspect their reaction would have been very different. Yet who knows.

The ego is a strange thing.