I thought it was appropriate to write a separate post.

Which I think will be brilliant and which, if it’s followed through on, answers the questions posed.
I suppose “watch this space” is in order. Hopefully we’ll see it soon.

As for TCUK & I – it would be nice if Mr Arrington paid Mike more money to actually travel to Ireland and maybe even sponsor more events as TC rather than try and get Mike to blag sponsor money.

Seems all of the Arrington millions are for his parties/awards in the Valley and jollies in Davos.

Its true that your original post decrying the goals of TechLudd energised a whole bunch of people into making TechLudd happen, but the reality is people turned up on the night because it was a good idea, not because you said it was a bad idea.

Joe.

@It’s all about ME – yet another TechCrunch Troll. “overdue business plan” – I’d love to know what you mean by overdue. It’s overdue when I say it’s overdue, given that I’m the CEO. Please explain yourself.

You know what would be great though Mike? That your coverage of Irish companies is more positive. This is TechCrunch UK and Ireland, right? Yet all I can see when it comes to coverage of Ireland is two negative pieces so far. Will you profile some of the fantastic companies that were at TechLudd and will you cover the upcoming CreativeCamp or will there need to be some kind of argy bargy before that happens?

There is more to Ireland than fights and you should be covering that.

1. You have NO IDEA what plans were afoot for TechLudd because instead of answering Anton’s invitation for community involvement specifically to help form the event, you used the opportunity to throw stones from the sidelines in your blog, once again positioning yourself as the authority on absolutely everything that involves the word “tech” or so much as an open HTML tag;

2. Despite your ceaseless name dropping, you are in fact not the only person who knows anyone else. All roads to Rome do not, in reality, run through you. *Other people* also know Techcrunchies, including Mike Butcher – whom I have know for longer than you’ve been able to find London. On a map.

You continue to not do yourself any favours in these conversations. I’d suggest you fire your PR company, but since it is so obviously you, that would simply be too much to ask for.

Luckily for the TechLudd organisers and the Irish Tech community Paul Walsh was there to put everything right. Phew crisis averted!

How does he find time between organizing “great” events like the Facebook debate & Top Cats, hosting the BIMA awards, writing the world’s longest overdue business plan for Segala, advising the UK government on startups, the W3c on open standards as well as constantly offering words of wisdom on twitter and momo London.

Surely there must be more than one Paul Walsh??? Is it just me?

You played a part in the success of techludd in the same way Herod played a part in the early life of the baby Jesus.

Everyone is entitled to give an opinion and mine I still believe, was spot on at the time I articulated it. It’s a shame more people don’t do the same out in the open – you’d be surprised by the number of emails and IM messages I received from people who agreed with (sometimes ‘risky’) blog posts – but don’t want to be seen in the open.

So, I’m delighted it turned out to be a success, really I am. It’s a shame more blogs don’t link to my positive opinion pieces. Then again, I purposely made this post stand out to change would happen. So I got what I set out to achieve.