Mike Arrington just wrote a Blogger Dream Team Manifesto, admonishing other prominent bloggers about raising too much capital, with the clearly stated goal of doing a rollup with some of them and subsequently "crushing" Dan Farber and CNet.
He's even gone so far as to post a picture of the original basketball Dream Team from the 1992 Olympics (i'm guessing Mike wants to be like Mike).
It's an impressive gauntlet thrown, but what i want to know is:
Who is Arrington's Blogger equivalent of Charles Barkley?
The original CrunchTron 4 i put together was inspired by the Crunchies sponsors, but there were only 4 of them... who's the 5th Dream Teamer?
* Michael Jordan = Michael Arrrington, TechCrunch
* Magic Johnson = Om Malik, GigaOm
* Karl Malone = Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb
* Patrick Ewing = Matt Marshall, VentureBeat
* Charles Barkley = ?????
Henry Blodget? Mathew Ingram? Rafat Ali? (not anymore, it seems)
other suggestions in the comments, please?
I think your RSS feed doesn't work...had to find out about this post without it appearing in my netvibes account...
Posted by: Ben | Friday, March 21, 2008 at 06:33 PM
I guess that makes me David Blumenthal (http://www.nba.com/playerfile/david_bluthenthal/index.html?nav=page)...
Posted by: Adam Metz | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 01:03 PM
I'd vote for Allen Stern personally ... I really think Center Networks is growing into a great property!
Posted by: Sean Ammirati | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 09:56 AM
It doesn't name what the criteria is, but if it is for useful/thought provoking insight, my vote goes to Umair Hague http://www.bubblegeneration.com/
Posted by: tom summit | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 09:03 AM
It doesn't name what the criteria is, but if it is for useful/thought provoking insight, my vote goes to Umair Hague http://www.bubblegeneration.com/
Posted by: tom summit | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 09:01 AM
It doesn't name what the criteria is, but if it is for useful/thought provoking insight, my vote goes to Umair Hague http://www.bubblegeneration.com/
Posted by: tom summit | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 09:01 AM
I'd say Mashable, Pete Cashmore.
Posted by: adam isserlis | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 08:25 AM
For the record, Barkley was the leading scorer for both the 1992 & 1996 Dream Team (Trivial Pursuit question the other night).
If there is an Arrington Poll vote for Barkley, you've got mine, Dave.
Posted by: Scott Schnaars | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 08:24 AM
two quick things based on your team players...
1. in the way the internet works - a player may be a player that might become another player on the team later on to which the initial player they were might become someone else.
2. barkley = me to begin with.
Posted by: Allen Stern | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 08:23 AM
I already said I want to be Magic. If I can't be Magic then I'm not playing :-)
Posted by: Mathew Ingram | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 07:57 AM