Michael Arrington is Back Blogging. Hurray!

Fyi, this post has NTDWA: Nothing To Do With Asia. It’s just some thoughts I’d like to share as a tech blogger and a TechCrunch fan.

If you follow the tech start-up scene, you know by now that former TechCrunch boss Michael Arrington is no longer with the tech blog he started. For those who don’t know what happened, you can catch the full story by clicking here and here.

Thankfully (or unfortunately for haters), Mr. Arrington’s absence is only short term. The man is back to blogging again — not at TechCrunch, but at Uncrunched. His first post is greatly inspiring; these few lines particularly really resonated with me:

I never really did know what I was doing at TechCrunch. I was writing about startups while building a startup and investing in others. It never occurred to me that as the site became, almost immediately, an important part of the tech news scene, to figure out exactly what my plans were.

For sure, my achievements are no where near Mr. Arrington’s. But my humble story is somewhat similar to his — I didn’t really know what would happen to Penn-Olson.com

My blog has an awkward name for a start — Penn-Olson — which tells you that we started with zero intention of writing about tech in Asia. But that name comes with a reason — As I always explain to others that it started as a learning platform. I came from a marketing background, but have strong interest in entrepreneurship and tech. After leaving my first brick-and-mortar start-up, I founded Penn Olson, a blog that teaches me more about tech. I learn better as I pen down my thoughts and it’s really been an awesome experience so far. I just blogged and blogged…

But this blog really had no big ambitions in its earlier days. I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do with it. But somehow I shifted my writing towards tech and start-ups in Asia, and it gained a lot of attention. And the rest is history. I would’ve never imagined that it could have grown to this size — with proper funding, a team, and more cool stuff in the pipeline. Still, all this is nothing compared to Mr. Arrington’s achievements.

I’m usually the guy that writes about start-ups in our team. It’s a passion, and a huge part of my life now – building a start-up while writing about other start-up stories. Entrepreneurship is addictive and I’m sure I will contribute to the start-up community, whatever fate lies ahead.

I don’t really know what the fate of our blog will be . As a start-up, there’s always a 50-50 chance. But while we’re at it, we will be writing about tech and start-ups in Asia as we hope to promote the Asian start-up scene across the world.

So I’m glad Mr. Arrington is back at Uncrunched, contributing to the start-up scene as he has done for the past couple of years. Whether you hate or love him, you’ve got to agree that his works have inspired and pushed start-ups onto the global stage. The mainstream media doesn’t give a shit about start-ups, so blogs will have to do the job. And I’ve got to say that Arrington’s work has been a huge inspiration to me.