Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Ladies and gentlemen (said the voice of God), in the blue corner I’d like to introduce to you Mike Arrington for TechCrunch. In the red corner, we have Sam Sethi for Blognation.

Those of you who are regulars to ‘the BLight’ club will know that these lovers fell out when they parted almost a year ago. It looks as if they’re still at it.

From TechCrunch

MyKinda v. Blognation

MyKinda is similar to blog network Blognation, a UK-based blog tech-focused blog network founded by former TechCrunch UK writer Sam Sethi (Sethi did not leave TechCrunch amicably, it should be noted). There is some seriously bad blood between Sethi and Wilkins, though.

Wilkins claims to have thought up the original idea for Blognation, including the name, and brought Sethi in as a partner earlier this year after spending €30,000 in out-of-pocket costs. Something led that partnership to dissolve, however, and the two started a very public feud. In one email string the two were making serious threats to each other. Unfortunately, the email string included two partners from London based Index Ventures, Danny Rimer and Saul Klein (Blognation was trying to secure funding from Index). On that string, which was forwarded to me, Sethi actually said he would kill Wilkins when he kept threatening to sue:

Will you fucking leave Danny and Saul out of this what have they got to do with this or I will come on the next flight and fucking rip your head off. If you have a grief it is with me and tristan. They are very busy people you idiot. Add that to your lawyers list and send over the docs asap pls.

Thanks in advance

Sam’s response

Hi Mike

Thank you for the kinds words and clearly posting of private (slightly doctored) emails. As you know when we skyped each other 4 months ago on this matter, there are two sides to this story but you choose to only write oneside. I don’t intend to correct it on your blog as it is water under the bridge from July but suffice to say there never was a legal issue.

Good luck to Lee and blognation are fine, thanks for asking. Look forward to seeing you in Paris.

Take a look at Mike’s post which ironically, I found via Sam’s twitter.

Should they continue to throw mud at each other or stop commentating on each other altogether? Personally I think it’s funny and hope it never stops