The incident happened during the LeWeb event, which took place December 9-10th in Paris. Loic LeMeur, a Frenchman who touched to Silicone Valley to set up his company, organizes LeWeb.

During the "friendly" twine up session, there were a some comments most whether Silicone Valley entrepreneurs were meliorate than land entrepreneurs were. Loic LeMeur and Michael Arrington, digit well-known personalities, voiced differing points of views.

This debate sparked a reaction in the dweller audience at this live event. And the comments continued after the event.

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I initially did not respond to this incident because I did not attend. In addition, I find the land blogosphere likewise reactive and prefer to permit the dust settle.

And quite frankly, when I briefly scanned the follow-up blog posts by LeMeur and Arrington after the event, I actually wondered if they were prolonging the publicity. A common enough practice online.

But modify if they were, the cross-cultural act tremor that went finished the dweller community present was authentic. This made me realize that others would belike appreciate hearing my thoughts on this cross-cultural act aspect of this incident.