The Techcrunch founder says the controversy over his spokesblogging job — he talked up Microsoft's 'people-ready' slogan — cost him an ad campaign. Which might help explain the discrepancy in the revenue numbers Arrington has been claiming. In Wired's profile of the blustering tech publisher, dated 22 July, he claims an impressive $200,000 a month in revenue. By June 25th's Newsweek, Techcrunch was only making $100,000.