AOL's share price has been flying high?!? Their stock price is down 25% since they purchased TechCrunch (no direct correlation implied); while the Dow and Nasdaq are hitting multi year highs. This is a company that has lost 80% of its value since the days when Google signed their big search deal with them putting a $10 billion value on the company - to say nothing of the long term disaster at AOL. And not to mention that they've gone from a cash generating machine just a few years ago, courtesy of the dying dial-up business, to currently bleeding to death.

I used to read TechCrunch daily while Arrington was at the helm. He kept it interesting, and they often had big scoops. I find that HackerNews has completely replaced my need to check in with TechCrunch to keep up on what's going on.

Ars Technica is one of the few other sources I keep up with regularly. TechCrunch just seems like a complete joke by comparison these days.