Yeah, agreed. Though he tries his best to hide the fact, Arrington was a lawyer at a big law firm, neither a nerd nor a journalist. And here he is running a "news" site about technology.

To his credit, he filled a void. I wish there were folks like Arrington around and things like the VC-funded "internet week" in NY this week back in 1999 during the first dot-com boom. Something is better than nothing. And he's on the right side of a lot of things -- specifically on intellectual property regulation.

And also to his credit, he's trying and he listens. He's been responding to commenters on his site and there's something to be said about that.