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Why ? Because customers have been forgotten. 300/500 Euro is a price. You expect a service. It is expensive, and you expect a high level of service.&quot;" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:21:12 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freddestin.com/blog/2006/12/leweb3_or_why_n.html&quot;&gt;Fred Destin&lt;/a&gt; says &quot;This is not-for-profit after all&quot;. Tell that to MasterCard for me, why don't you? The conference certainly &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; for profit for Google and Yahoo and Microsoft and Six Apart and Nokia. Oh, and if Le Web 4 is invite only, be sure not to invite anyone with a blog - they're far too much hassle." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:17:32 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegayexpat.com/2006/12/13/leweb3-final-le-pauvre/&quot;&gt;The Gay Expat&lt;/a&gt; has more good comments and a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://open.typepad.com/open/WindowsLiveWriter/LeWeb3digesting_FC50/image%7B0%7D%5B5%5D.png&quot;&gt;this excellent picture&lt;/a&gt; - does that look like an unconference? &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:15:41 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://yeastradio.podshow.com/?p=953&quot;&gt;Madge Weinstein&lt;/a&gt; has an interview with The Gay Expat - who was at Le Web 3 - on the latest Yeast Radio (warning - not worksafe, kidsafe etc)." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:53:18 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/2006/12/13/leweb3-fallout-as-a-speaker-im-not-happy/&quot;&gt;Ewan Spence&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Jonas on stage had made a brief comment to the effect of &quot;everyone is different, for example I don't like French politicians,&quot; which provoked one of the loudest positive reactions from the audience that day. Perhaps Le Muir should have picked up on this rather than his one over-riding concern of getting his friends on stage to further their (his?) political ambitions?&quot;" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:41:48 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.techcrunch.com/2006/12/13/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is/&quot;&gt;Sam Sethi&lt;/a&gt; has confirmed that the blog comment he received from Loic calling him an asshole &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; from Loïc. That's professionalism right there. Sam is announcing a number of new events that will be sponsored by TechCrunch UK - and they look interesting (especially the Feb 22 one). I still think we need a EuroBloggerCon." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:38:16 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hansonexperience.com/my_weblog/2006/12/le_web3_loics_own_blogstorm.html&quot;&gt;Hans Metrum&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;It did not disturb me that his ego is important for him. Till yesterday. I think his ego has misled him to make great mistakes. He did not listen to the wind which was blowing to a wrong direction. And now he has created his own blogstorm.&quot;" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:32:52 GMT"/>		<outline text="Some of the commentary I linked to yesterday (and some of my own) has been translated in to French by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vincentabry.com/2006/12/11/202-le-web3-vu-par-les-anglais&quot;&gt;Vincent Abry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://vmaurin.free.fr/dotclear/index.php?2006/12/12/591-loic-le-meur-a-t-il-perdu-toute-credibilite&quot;&gt;vmaurin&lt;/a&gt; and at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doyoubuzz.com/billets-dhumeur/depucele-par-le-pape/&quot;&gt;Doyoubuzz.com&lt;/a&gt;. In Spanish, there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.lisbonlab.com/2006/12/13/le-web-3/&quot;&gt;Lisbon Lab&lt;/a&gt; who has provided links back and some comments in Portugese. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/82458&quot;&gt;Heise Online&lt;/a&gt; has a write-up in German - as does &lt;a href=&quot;http://beissholz.de/pivot/artikel-1440.html&quot;&gt;Nicole Simon's beissholz.de&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:11:58 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parisist.com/archives/2006/12/12/leweb3_a_french_political_rallyen.php&quot;&gt;Parisist&lt;/a&gt; has a good roundup of the posts (in English)." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:21:02 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.snipperoo.com/2006/12/unconferencing_.html&quot;&gt;Ivan Pope&lt;/a&gt; has more comments and some great ideas on how to improve conferences, as has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2006/12/13/more-lessons-for-conference-organizers/&quot;&gt;Jeremiah Owyang&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:07:01 GMT"/>		<outline text="Le Web 3: La la la" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:27:40 GMT">			<outline text="Still no response from the Le Web organisers despite the &lt;i&gt;overwhelmingly huge&lt;/i&gt; response from bloggers both in English, French and other languages and the presence of headlines on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tailrank.com/949005/Tuesday-December-12-2006&quot;&gt;TailRank&lt;/a&gt; and TechMeme, and from &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/2006/12/12/more-on-le-meltdown/&quot;&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2006/12/leweb_non_reboo.html&quot;&gt;Stowe Boyd&lt;/a&gt; and many, many more - they might want to say something." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:27:49 GMT"/>			<outline text="Egg truly is on someone's face. Based on the fact that people are &lt;i&gt;setting up blogs in response to yesterday&lt;/i&gt; (there's one new French blog, apparently, called Loique Jemeur parodying Mr. Le Meur), I don't think it's my face the egg is on." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:32:57 GMT"/>			<outline text="I sincerely hope that if this kind of thing happens at conferences which suck more often, perhaps we can finally just stop having them - or at least the conferences can stop sucking and start being more interesting." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:35:29 GMT"/>			<outline text="The Guardian is calling it &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2006/12/13/le_web_conference_and_le_backlash.html&quot;&gt;Le Backlash&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:38:46 GMT"/>			<outline text="There is a comment purporting to come from Loïc Le Meur &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.techcrunch.com/2006/12/11/le-web3-the-good-bad-and-ugly/#comment-39342&quot;&gt;over at TechCrunch UK&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Sam. There is no word to qualify you and this post. You are just an asshole.&quot;" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:43:38 GMT"/>			<outline text="Is that your final word, Loïc? Are you going to call me and the many other people who are pissed off assholes too? Or shall we have a conversation about it?" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:44:17 GMT"/>			<outline text="You'd think that if you work for Six Apart - a company which sells &lt;i&gt;blog&lt;/i&gt; software - you might be interested in having a conversation." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:42:53 GMT"/>			<outline text="Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/leweb3&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;leweb3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/loiclemeur&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loiclemeur&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/loic+le+meur&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loic le meur&lt;/a&gt;" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:45:01 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/leWeb3LaLaLa60117/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('leWeb3LaLaLa60117');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/leWeb3LaLaLa60117/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('leWeb3LaLaLa60117'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Le Web 3 fallout: Hijinks at Crunch towers!" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:59:20 GMT">			<outline text="Note to Loïc Le Meur and Mike Arrington: firing Sam Sethi, or at least playing chicken over it (the blog entry has gone down but you can still see comments &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.techcrunch.com/2006/12/11/le-web3-the-good-bad-and-ugly/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), will not stop the flow of criticism. In fact, it will only prove what I have been saying all along - that Le Web was a &quot;boy's club&quot; of sorts. The only way to stop the criticism is for Loïc to apologise, for Six Apart to send some money back to whoever wants a refund and to stop putting on crap conferences." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:54:28 GMT"/>			<outline text="Here is what Sam wrote in his &quot;Sam Sethi leaves TechCrunch UK&quot; post which was promptly pulled:" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:58:32 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;blockquote&gt;Following yesterday's post about Le Web and Loic's retort. It seems Mike Arrington has disagreed with my post and opinion believing my actions to be vindictive towards Loic. What was said between Mike and I will remain confidential but suffice to say I can no longer remain with TechCrunch UK &amp; Ireland. It is a very sad after all the work that has gone into TechCrunch UK and Ireland. I wish all of the UK and Irish entrepreneurs well. I will be personally blogging back at www.vecosys.com and looking for something new to keep me busy. Bye&lt;/blockquote&gt;" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:59:12 GMT"/>			<outline text="I've met Sam, and I apologise to him if I'm not really supposed to pubish this." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:00:46 GMT"/>			<outline text="But the fact that Arrington presumably saw fit to fire Sam after he disagreed with Loïc Le Meur adds fuel to the fire that this is just Old Boys Club 2.0." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:01:27 GMT"/>			<outline text="Firing people for &quot;disagreeing&quot; is not conversational media, especially if they happen to be right. Loïc: we're still here. We want to have a conversation." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:04:17 GMT"/>			<outline text="Elsewhere: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/socialsoftware/online/2006/12/13/Sam-Sethi-just-got-fired-for-comments-on-Loic-at-the-Web-3-1.html&quot;&gt;Ian&lt;/a&gt; also has the story, as does &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.fedafi.com/2006/12/13/sam-techcrunch-uk-le-web3-and-loic/&quot;&gt;fedafi.com&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:10:36 GMT"/>			<outline text="Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/leweb3&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;leweb3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/techcrunch&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;techcrunch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/michael+arrington&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;michael arrington&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/tcuk&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcuk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/loic+le+meur&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loic le meur&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/sam+sethi&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sam sethi&lt;/a&gt; " created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:02:04 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/leWeb3FalloutHijinksAtCrunchTowers91275/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('leWeb3FalloutHijinksAtCrunchTowers91275');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/leWeb3FalloutHijinksAtCrunchTowers91275/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('leWeb3FalloutHijinksAtCrunchTowers91275'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="TechCrunch UK is on hold" created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:58:44 GMT">			<outline text="So sayeth &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.techcrunch.com/2006/12/13/putting-techcrunch-uk-on-hold/&quot;&gt;The Arrington&lt;/a&gt;. Sam is out. I reckon that PodTech ought to hire him to do a show about innovation in UK/IE/EU." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:58:52 GMT"/>			<outline text="It looks like TechCrunch UK may be needing new staff. If you want to stop having opinions and start obeying the party line, I'm sure you can figure out a way of contacting Mike Arrington." created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:58:59 GMT"/>			<outline text="Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/techcrunch&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;techcrunch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/michael+arrington&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;michael arrington&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/tcuk&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcuk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/sam+sethi&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sam sethi&lt;/a&gt; " created="Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:02:04 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/techcrunchUkIsOnHold48625/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('techcrunchUkIsOnHold48625');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/techcrunchUkIsOnHold48625/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('techcrunchUkIsOnHold48625'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>