Tomorrow TechCrunch welcomes MG Siegler as a full time writer and our newest hire (pictured to the right of Marshall Kirkpatrick, a former TechCrunch writer). He joins us from VentureBeat, where he created quite a following for himself by writing interesting, timely posts on the current technology trends. In fact, in just two years of solid blogging he’s become one of the top twenty most productive tech bloggers. Obviously, we are pleased as punch to add him to our team.
MG is a hard worker, and writes both quickly and well (a rare combination). Combine that with a certain level of competitiveness and you’ve got a winner. He’s also very much a part of the startup and technology community here in Silicon Valley.
He maintains a personal blog at ParisLemon, where frankly I think some of his best articles have been posted. He’ll continue to write on ParisLemon, but I’ve asked him to bring more of that personal style and opinions into his TechCrunch writing as well. I think you’ll like what you see.
MG joins Erick Schonfeld, Sarah Lacy, Jason Kincaid, Robin Wauters and Leena Rao (and myself) as the team writing most of the content you see here on TechCrunch. Look for his first posts soon.
You can read VentureBeat’s sendoff here, and get MG’s take on his new job here. Welcome, MG!
Welcome! I look forward to reading your articles!
Thanks Jeff. Good to be here. Articles coming soon
Hi MG. Welcome to TechCrunch. I hope you will provide some latest and underground tech news.
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TC hires MG Siegler, the Ted McGinley of Technology journalism.
TC officially–ladies and gentlemen–has jumped the shark!
Look for a comet hitting Earth sometime tomorrow.
Sigh.
I’m not sure if you were trying to be funny there, either way you’re a douche.
MG is ok with me, but please no top ten lists of your favorite Easter eggs. Wow that was weak.
Mike:
Thank you for hiring perhaps the only shamelss ethics-dry conflicted knucklehead bigger than yourself.
He’s your own Mini-me!
I was going to jump off a bridge, but I am coming down and sharpening my insult skills to readily apply to both of you shills!
See, I’m already better!
Thanks, fellas!
Come on, I’m not that much shorter than Mike.
Welcome MG!
Thanks Luis.
Congratulations MG and bravo Mike for bringing MG on board, an excellent decision on your part.
Much appreciated Scott.
do you really reply to every single comment?
I fear I won’t be able to keep up. I have work to do
I second that Scott. MG is a very talented and sadly the only reason I visited VentureBeat was to read his posts. Sorry Marshal but I’ll be removing you guys from my RSS.
I’m only one guy though so I guess that’s ok. ParisLemon FTW!
Looking forward to his posts, great addition.
Looking forward to reading your upcoming articles!
Good Luck to you. Look forward to reading yr articles.
welcome mg i read a lot of your post on venture beat. welcome to tc.
Welcom MG. I enjoyed reading your articles at Venturebeat. Look forward to following you here at Techcrunch.
Welcome MG. Look forward to reading your posts.
BAD.ASS.
Congratulations to both parties.
Just to let you guys know, Siegler’s CrunchBase profile is editable by anyone.
that’s why we call it a wiki.
Ha! That makes CrunchBase pretty cool then…didn’t realize that before.
What exactly as you suggesting *anyone* add Bennett?
Welcome MG … enjoyed reading your articles @ Venturebeat.
Wow – congrats, MG!
I have to tell you I really like the team they’re starting to build there. I really like both MG and Sarah Lacy.
Brilliant and timely move on your part Michael, and congrats to MG as well. The TechCrunch community is gonna love what they read.
Crushing blow to venturebeat!
All I know of this guy is that he’s been drinking the Apple juice for a while. I hope his TC stuff is a little more objective and less blinded.
Apple juice. Cute, I like that, not sure how I haven’t come across that before. Though I prefer Ecto Cooler.
thanks jesse
Welcome, MG! I’ll be seeing you around the office
The more the merrier
Good to see you MG!
Congratulations MG.
MG, now you have to convince Michael to actually use FriendFeed.
Chris, Mike doesn’t have to any more – he has MG.
Congrats MG…Go Blue!
Congrats MG!
Go Blue indeed Jamie – thx!
Does this mean that Arrington has actually heard of FriendFeed finally?
What about my other friends who need a job, MG get a job for Kol.
Wait… Go Blue? Is that a Michigan reference?
I think they’re rooting for BYU
Congratulations, MG
BYU has sports?
Ken, where have you been the last 30 years? NCAA champions on several fronts.
this is more proof the the US economy is still fundamentally strong. The new elite are leading the global economy with web 2.0 technologies. http://iamned.com/blog/
Great to have you on board.
Congrats – I’m sure I’ll see plenty of you when I finally get moved into the valley next week.
Congrats MG. Keep it comin’ !!
Matthew: of course Arrington knows about friendfeed. Look at how many people he’s following here. He’s just building a business and sees Friendfeed as competition of sorts.
‘grats MG!
Robert – http://en.wikti.../wiki/facetious
Good luck.
Congratulations on the promotion MG
Welcome!
FF as competition? gosh, maybe we should remove the like and comment integration!
heheh, I win, I got Michael to comment.
the ol’ FF comment bait scheme, very sneaky robert. congrats mg!
So does this mean you didn’t get my email pitches for coverage over at VentureBeat in the last week or two? I am more than happy to resend to you at TechCrunch!
Ok, I need to get on that list.
you guys are going to love my first post (or hate it)