<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, jeff atwood]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, jeff atwood]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/jeffatwood http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/jeffatwood <![CDATA[Mess With Mike Arrington Day (And Everybody's Celebrating)]]> After TechCrunch published hacker-obtained Twitter documents, people wondered whether publisher Mike Arrington would be spit on (again), arrested or ejected from an inner circle. The Twitterati were obsessed!



Business Insider's Dan Frommer asked the smartest follow-up question about TechCrunch and Twitter.



Web entrepreneur Jeff Atwood isn't saying people should spit in Mike Arrington's face for publishing internal Twitter documents, just that the TechCrunch publisher deserves to have people spit in his face. Is this what the high road looks like?



The New York Times' Patrick LaForge, meanwhile, wondered if Arrington might be confined to his home by the authorities. Actually, it was the authorities who forced him to leave his house.



MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, meanwhile, discovered Paul McCartney playing outside the Ed Sullivan Theater and spent at least an hour livetweeting the performance (almost like a real broadcast journalist!).



Berkeley food mecca Chez Panisse joined Twitter, in a way that maximized the glory of France. Naturally.


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<![CDATA[Can you really rent-a-coder?]]> Electronic Arts recently shut down Blueprint, a strategic project to enable the company to develop more software without onsite programmers. Coding Horror blogger Jeff Atwood is a professional programmer who lives in Berkeley. That makes him biased against cheap-outsourced-programer sites like Guru.com. But Atwood's hard-to-explain discomfort — and the war stories left by commenters — are based on an unpopular truth: There's no substitute for being in the office.

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